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3. Warren Buffet
Born August 30, 1930 American investor, industrialist and philanthropist.
Often called the "legendary investor, Warren Buffett", he is the primary shareholder, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.
He was ranked as the world's wealthiest person in 2008 and is the third wealthiest person in the world as of 2011.

4. Sam Walton
Founded Wal-Mart in 1962 , the chain of discount variety stores that in the 1990s became the world's largest retailer.
Walton's savvy marketing skills and attention to detail led to Wal-Mart's expansion throughout the United States.
By 1990 Wal-Mart was the nation's top retailer in terms of sales, and Walton was one of the richest men in the world.
After his death in 1992 the company continued to expand, including online commerce and stores around the world.
By 2001 there were more than 4,500 Wal-Mart stores worldwide.

5. Indra Nooyi
An Indian-born American executive and is the Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo Incorporated
She is a Successor Fellow of the Yale Corporation. She serves as a member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum, International Rescue Committee, Catalyst and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Has served as Chairperson of the U.S.-India Business Council.
In 2010 she was named #1 on Fortune's list of the “50 Most Powerful Women" and #6 on Forbes' list of the "World's 100 Most Powerful Women".

6. Phil Knight Co-founder and Chairman of Nike, Inc.
, Knight's stake in Nike gives him an estimated net worth of $23.5billion, making him the 43rd richest person in the world
A graduate of the University of Oregon and Stanford Graduate School of Business, he has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to the schools. Knight gave the largest donation in history at the time to Stanford's business school in 2006.
A native Oregonian, he ran track for coach Bill Bowerman at the University of Oregon, with whom he would co-found Nike.

7. English business magnate, chairman of Virgin Group of more than 400 companies.
His first business venture was a magazine called Student at the age of 16. In 1970, he set up an audio-record mail-order business. In 1972, he opened a chain of record stores, Virgin Records, later known as Virgin Megastores. he set up Virgin Atlantic Airways and expanded the Virgin Records music label.
4th richest citizen of the United Kingdom.
Virgin Galactic, will license the technology behind Spaceship One—funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and designed by legendary American aeronautical engineer and visionary Burt Rutan—to take paying passengers into suborbital space. Virgin Galactic
Virgin Fuels, which is set to respond to global warming and exploit the recent spike in fuel costs by offering a revolutionary, cheaper fuel for automobiles and, in the near future, aircraft.
Richard Branson
Branson has stated that he was formerly a global warming sceptic and was influenced in his decision by a breakfast meeting with Al Gore

8. Ren Zhengfei
He is the president of Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, headquartered in Shenzhen, China, and an ex-People's Liberation Army officer.
Forbes magazine listed Ren as the 193th richest person in China in 2013 with private assets of approximately $920 million USD
His ties with the Chinese military and Communist Party are being cited as a security concern in not allowing Huawei to expand in India. In the United States it led to the collapse of Huawei's efforts to buy 3Com and forced SoftBank to greatly sever ties in order to have its takeover of Sprint Nextel acquire U.S. national-security clearance.
While in Great Britain the Intelligence and Security Committee has recommended the removal of Huawei's equipment due to spying fears

9. Gina Rinehart Australian mining heiress
Rinehart opposed the Rudd government's Mineral Resource Rent Tax and Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme as part of a group of mining magnates that included Andrew Forrest.
She has founded the lobby group ANDEV, ("Australians for Northern Development & Economic Vision")and has sponsored the trips of prominent climate change sceptic Christopher Monckton to Australia.
Rinehart is publicly known for visiting girls' orphanages in Cambodia and is on the expert advisory board of SISHA, a Cambodian non-profit organization campaigning against human trafficking, in particular by rescuing and assisting sexually exploited women and children.
Gina Rinehart

10. Sam Yagan
Sam Yagan is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of OkCupid.
He is currently the CEO of the world’s largest e-dating site, Match.com

11. Sheryl Sandberg
American businesswoman, activist, and writer. As of August 2013, she is the chief operating officer of Facebook.
Before Facebook, Sandberg was Vice President of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google
Involved in launching Google's philanthropic arm Google.org.
Before Google, Sandberg served as chief of staff for the United States Secretary of the Treasury.
As of January 2014, Sandberg is reported to be worth over $1 billion, due to her stock holdings in Facebook and other companies.

12. Mark Cuban American businessman and investor.
Cuban's first step into the business world occurred at age 12, when he sold garbage bags to pay for a pair of expensive basketball shoes.
In 1995, Cuban and fellow Indiana University alumnus Todd Wagner started Audionet, combining their mutual interest in Indiana Hoosier college basketball and webcasting. With a single server and an ISDN line, Audionet became Broadcast.com in 1998
By 1999, Broadcast.com had grown to 330 employees and $13.5 million in revenue for the second quarter. In 1999, during the dot com boom, Broadcast.com was acquired by Yahoo! for $5.9 billion in Yahoo! stock.
He is the owner of the National Basketball Association's Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theatres, and Magnolia Pictures, and the chairman of the HDTV cable network AXS TV.
He is also a "shark" investor on the television series Shark Tank.

13. Pat Croce
American entrepreneur, sports team executive and owner, author, and TV personality.
Physical therapist and was an athletic trainer for the Philadelphia 76ers
He founded Sports Physical Therapists in 1984 and grew the business into a chain of 40 centers spanning 11 states before selling it in 1993 for $40 million.
He became president of the Philadelphia 76ers basketball team in 1996
Since leaving the 76ers, Croce was on The NBA on NBC and was a taekwondo commentator for the 2004 Summer Olympic Games. In 2004, he hosted his own syndicated self-help television show, Pat Croce: Moving In
Pirate Soul Museum in Key West, Florida. The museum features authentic pirate artifacts, many from Croce's personal collection.
Colonial Quarter living-history museum in St. Augustine, Florida.
Croce was one of the four judges for the second season of ABC's reality television series, American Inventor, which ran from June to August, 2007.
Board of directors for Movitas, a mobile technology company focused on the hospitality industry.
In October 2011, Croce financed and served on the monumental expedition that located the shipwrecks of Sir Francis Drake.

14. Science and Technology
Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin, (born August 21, 1973) is a Russian-American computer scientist and software developer who, with Larry Page, is best known as the co-founder of Google, Inc., the world's largest Internet company , based on its search engine and online advertising technology. As of 2011, his personal wealth is estimated to be $33 billion.
Lawrence "Larry" Page[2] (born March 26, 1973) is an American computer scientist and software developer who, with Sergey Brin, is best known as the co-founder of Google. As announced on January 21, 2011 through a blog post, he will be in charge of Google's day-to-day operations as the Chief Executive Officer, effective April 4, As of 2011his personal wealth is estimated to be $32 billion

15. Bill Gates
American business magnate, philanthropist, author, and is chairman of Microsoft
Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. Although he is admired by many, a number of industry insiders criticize his business tactics, which they consider anti-competitive, an opinion which has in some cases been upheld by the courts.
In the later stages of his career, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000.

16. Dean Kamen
Kamen was already a successful and wealthy inventor, after inventing the AutoSyringe, a new type of mobile dialysis system for medical applications, the first insulin pump, and an all-terrain electric wheelchair known as the iBOT, using many of the same gyroscopic balancing technologies that later made their way into the Segway.
In 1989, Kamen founded FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), a program for students to get people interested in science, technology, and engineering.

17. Neil deGrasse Tyson
American astrophysicist, science communicator, the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space, and a Research Associate in the Department of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History.
Since 2006 he has hosted the educational science television show NOVA scienceNOW on PBS, and has been a frequent guest on The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Jeopardy!.

18. Mark Zuckerberg
American software developer and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known for creating Facebook, of which he is chief executive and president. It was co-founded as a private company in 2004 by Zuckerberg and classmates Dustin Moskovitz, Eduardo Saverin, and Chris Hughes while they were students at Harvard University.
In 2010, Zuckerberg was named Time magazine's Person of the Year.
On Zuckerberg's Facebook page, he listed his personal interests as "openness, making things that help people connect and share what's important to them, revolutions, information flow, minimalism". Zuckerberg sees blue best because of red–green colorblindness; blue is also Facebook's dominant color.

19. Steve Jobs
American business magnate and inventor. He is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs also previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of The Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney. He was credited in the 1995 movie Toy Story as an executive producer.
In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Mike Markkula, and others, designed, developed, and marketed one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of the mouse-driven graphical user interface which led to the creation of the Macintosh.

20. Derrick Pitts
He is Chief Astronomer and Planetarium Director for the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has been named as one of the 50 most important African-Americans in research science.
He is the president of the Philadelphia chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen, Inc.
He has made numerous television appearances, including shows such as The Colbert Report, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
He co-hosts a weekly radio discussion program called Skytalk on WHYY-FM.

21. Bob Ballard
A former commander in the United States Navy and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is most noted for his work in underwater archaeology. He is most famous for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989, and the wreck of the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in Most recently he discovered the wreck of John F. Kennedy’s PT-109 in
In the 1990s Ballard founded the Institute for Exploration, which specializes in deep-sea archaeology and deep-sea geology. It joined forces in 1999 with the Mystic Aquarium located in Mystic, Connecticut. They are a part of the non-profit Sea Research Foundation, Inc.
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22. Elon Musk
Business magnate, investor and inventor. Founded SpaceX, PayPal, and Tesla Motors.
Elon taught himself computer programming and at age 12 sold the computer code for a video game called Blastar for $500.
University of Pennsylvania –economics degree. He stayed on a year to finish his second bachelor's degree in physics.
Solar City and Tesla is to help combat global warming
He is a trustee of the X Prize Foundation, promoting renewable-energy technologies.
Hyperloop- “vacum”-high speed train

23. F. Story Musgrave
American physician and a retired NASA astronaut. He is a public speaker and consultant to both Disney's Imagineering group and Applied Minds in California.
Musgrave entered the United States Marine Corps in 1953, served as an aviation electrician and instrument technician, and as an aircraft crew chief while completing duty assignments in Korea, Japan and Hawaii, and aboard the carrier USS Wasp in the Far East
A veteran of six space flights, Musgrave has spent a total of 1281 hours 59 minutes, 22 seconds in space.
Musgrave has made cameo appearances on several documentary TV programs, as well as the movie Mission to Mars (2000) as "3rd CAPCOM" and the TV show Home Improvement by Touchstone Television.

24. Entrepreneur and software engineer, who is best known as the co‑founder of Instagram.
Internship at Odeo, the company that eventually gave rise to Twitter.
At Google he worked on Gmail and Google Reader.
In April 2012, Instagram was sold to Facebook for $1 billion in cash and stock.
Kevin Systrom

25. Kimberly Blackwell Cancer doctor at Duke University.
She is developing and improving treatments that target the HER2 protein present in a particularly aggressive type of breast cancer.
Dubbed a “smart bomb,” the treatment, which consists of an antibody specific to the tumor, loaded with an anticancer toxin, improves survival rates with fewer unpleasant side effects because the healthy cells aren’t attacked.
Kimberly Blackwell

26. Tony Hawk
American professional skateboarder. Hawk gained significant fame for completing the first 900 as well as his licensed video game titles distributed by Activision. He is widely considered one of the most successful and influential pioneers of modern vertical skateboarding.
Raised in San Diego, California, Hawk was described as being "hyperactive" as a child. His parents supported his skateboarding because it served as an outlet for his excessive energy, and as Hawk's skills developed, he became a professional skateboarder at age fourteen. In 1999, he became the first skater to land a 900 in competition. In 2002, he created the Boom Boom Huck Jam, an extreme sports competition in Las Vegas. He has also been involved in various philanthropic activities, including collaborations with other athletes in the charity Athletes For Hope.

27. Rob Dyrdek
At the age of twelve, Dyrdek acquired sponsorship from the same company that Blender was a team member of and began his skateboarding career.
Skateboarder, actor, entrepreneur, producer, and reality TV star. He is best known for his roles in the reality shows Rob and Big, Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory and Ridiculousness.

28. Danica Patrick
American auto racing driver, currently competing in the IndyCar Series and the NASCAR Nationwide Series, as well as a model and advertising spokeswoman.
With her win in the 2008 Indy Japan 300, Patrick became the first woman to win an Indy car race. Patrick currently drives the #7 GoDaddy.com Honda/Dallara for Andretti Autosport.
She also has an equity stake in her #7 team. She placed 3rd in the 2009 Indianapolis 500, which was both a personal best for her at the track and the highest finish by a woman in the event's history.
In 2011 in the NASCAR Nationwide Series Patrick became the first woman to lead a lap at Daytona International Speedway. She had her best career finish of 4th in the NASCAR Nationwide Series on March 5th, 2011 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

29. David and Victoria Beckham
Victoria Caroline Beckham (née Adams; born 17 April 1974)[1][2] is an English fashion designer, businesswoman and former singer. In the late 1990s, Beckham rose to fame with the all-female pop group Spice Girls and was dubbed Posh Spice by the July 1996 issue of the British pop music magazine Top of the Pops. Since the Spice Girls split, she has had a solo pop music career, scoring four UK Top 10 singles.
David Robert Joseph Beckham, OBE[2] (born 2 May 1975)[3] is an English association football player, who currently plays for Los Angeles Galaxy. He has previously played for Manchester United, Preston North End, Real Madrid, Milan, as well as the England national team, for which he holds the all-time appearance record for an outfield player.

30. Yo-Yo Ma
French-born American[1] cellist, virtuoso, orchestral composer of Chinese descent, and winner of multiple Grammy Awards
He is one of the most famous cellists of the modern age
Ma currently plays with his own Silk Road Ensemble, which has the goal of bringing together musicians from diverse countries all of which are historically linked via the Silk Road

31. Ken Burns
American director and producer of documentary films known for his style of using archival footage and photographs
Documentaries have been nominated for two Academy Awards (Brooklyn Bridge in 1982 and The Statue of Liberty in 1986) and have won seven Emmy Awards, mostly for The Civil War and Baseball.

32. Peter Lik
Self-taught Australian landscape photographer who took to the medium when young.
While traveling in Alaska in 1984, Lik began to experiment with panoramic cameras
In early 2010 Peter Lik signed an agreement with NBC'S Peacock Productions to star in an action/adventure reality series.

33. Peter Lik

34. Bono
Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), most commonly known by his stage name Bono
Irish singer, musician, and humanitarian best known for being the main vocalist of the Dublin-based rock band U2
He has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, was granted an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, and was named as a Person of the Year by Time.

35. Brian May
English musician, singer, songwriter and astrophysicist who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the rock band Queen. He uses a home-built guitar, called the "Red Special”
Compositions, including "We Will Rock You", "I Want It All”.
Appointed a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2005 for "services to the music industry and for charity work".
Ph.D in astrophysics
He is an active animal rights advocate and was appointed a vice-president of animal welfare charity the RSPCA in September 2012

36. Arnold Schwarzenegger
Austrian-American former professional bodybuilder, actor, model, businessman and politician who served as the Governor of California
Began weight training at 15. He was awarded the title of Mr. Universe at age 20 and went on to win the Mr. Olympia contest a total of seven times.
Films as Conan the Barbarian, The Terminator, Commando and Predator

37. Maya Van Wagenen
The 15-year-old author rose to fame for keeping a diary in her quest to become popular, following antiquated tips from the 1950s self-help book, Betty Cornell’s Glamour Guide for Teens.
Her musings about applying lessons such as always wearing white gloves and pearls as she navigated the social scene of a small Texas town landed her a six-figure Penguin book deal for, Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek.
DreamWorks optioned the rights for the novel, making the budding author the “youngest non-actor to ever make a deal” at the film studio.

38. Markus Persson and Jens Bergensten
In Minecraft you use your imagination to create whatever you want. It might be a story, it might be a machine, it might be some interesting place where you can go and play. But whatever it is, it’s a reflection of you and your intention and your creativity!

39. Jimmy Fallon Comedian, actor, singer, musician and producer.
Started playing guitar at age thirteen
Made $7.50 a set at The Improv Theater
Cast member on Saturday Night Live
Movies: Taxi, Anything Else, Almost Famous, Fever Pitch, Band of Brothers, Doogal, Factory Girl and Whip It.
He currently hosts The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

40. Aamir Khan
Indian film actor, director, screenwriter, producer and television presenter
Dhoom 3 (2013), all of which held records for being the highest grossing Bollywood film of all-time.
Humanitarian
"Everyone has the freedom of expression. If someone says something on a particular subject, that doesn't mean you should start protesting”

41. Perry Chen
Internet entrepreneur best known for co-founding the social fundraising website Kickstarter.
Kickstarter now boasts 5 million backers who have pledged close to a billion dollars.

42. Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde
Nigerian actress, singer, and philanthropist of an Ondo origin from Lagos, Nigeria.
300 films
Viewpoint landed her a now famous column in OK! Nigeria Magazine
World Food Program
Save The Children
Environmentalist

43. Al Gore
Gore is currently an author, businessman, and environmental activist. He was previously an elected official for 24 years, representing Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives (1977–85), and later in the U.S. Senate (1985–93), and finally becoming Vice President in 1993.
In the 2000 presidential election, Gore won the popular vote by more than 500,000 votes. However, he ultimately lost the Electoral College, and the election, to Republican George W. Bush when the U.S. Supreme Court settled the legal controversy over the Florida vote recount by ruling 5-4 in favor of Bush. It was the only time in history that the Supreme Court may have determined the outcome of a presidential election.

44. Malala Yousafzai Pakistan
Known for activism for rights to education for women
Critical of Taliban banning girls from attending school
Shot by Taliban gunman on her way to school
Youngest person nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Memoir I Am Malala
Started a world-wide movement towards education for all children, which lead to the Right to Education Bill in Pakistan

45. Peng Liyuan born in 1962 Chinese folk singer and performing artist
wife of the President of China
Dean of the People’s Liberation Army Art Academy
Major General in the People’s Liberation Army
WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS

46. Kamala Harris born in California in 1964
attended Howard University and University of California
First female Indian/African American Attorney General of California
Focused on issues such as:
increasing gun control
funding for housing
opposing the death penalty
public safety
privacy rights
Has writing books on the topic of law

47. Fethullah Gulen Turkish Islamic preacher
Founder of the Gulen Movment or Hizmet
The movement encourages a moderate blend of Islam.
Provide education that teaches peaceful conduct needed to maintain global relationships.
Inter-faith dialog

48. Pope Francis born in Argentina in 1936
worked as a chemical technician and nightclub bouncer
became a Catholic priest in 1969
became Archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998
became a Cardinal in 2001
became Pope in 2013
inspires people with his simple lifestyle
has spoken about the Church ideas concerning homosexuality and women

49. Alex Atala Born in Brazil in 1962 Restaurant called D.O.M.
4th best restaurant in the world
Popularized traditional Brazilian food using native ingredients
TV show host on Brazilian TV
Founded Ata; an institute that explores our relationship with food
Three books about food

50. Wang Shu born in 1963 born in China famous architect
founded the Amateur Architect Studio
professor and head of the Architecture School at the China Academy of Art
received the Gold Medal of Architecture in 2011
advocates sustainable construction

51. Roya Mahboob Afghanistan Entrepreneur and business woman
Promotes women’s access to the Internet in Afghanistan
Started Afghan Citadel Software Co.
Blog site for women to post their views
Building free Internet classrooms for women across Afghanistan
TIME magazine 100 most influential people in 2013

52. Eric Greitens Raised Jewish Duke University
Rhodes Scholar and Truman Scholar
University of Oxford
Studied how war affects children/Photographer
PhD in politics in 2000
Navy SEAL in 2001
Four deployments during War on Terror
Combat Action Ribbon, Joint Service Achievement Medal, the Navy Commendation Medal, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star Medal
White House Fellow in Department of Housing and Urban Development
Serves as Chairman and CEO of The Mission Continues, a veteran support organization