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Many take birth in this world and leave without leaving a mark. It is the ones who have left footprints on the sands of time that are remembered. They are the great people who have achieved something and inspired thousands. They are the people who have strived and contributed to the world and society at large.
This book is the saga of such hundred and one personalities and highlights their contribution in their respective fields. It throws light on the achievements of those who had the courage to follow their own heart and convictions, even when opposed. Their revolutionary ideas brought a change and shaped the course of history.
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| Contents | |
| Author’s Note — 5 | 51. Madam Curie — 121 |
| 1. Abraham — 11 | 52. Mahatma Gandhi — 124 |
| 2. Abraham Lincoln — 13 | 53. Malala Yousufzai — 126 |
| 3. Adolf Hitler — 15 | 54. Mao Tsetung — 128 |
| 4. Albert Einstein — 18 | 55. Marco Polo — 130 |
| 5. Alexander Graham Bell — 20 | 56. Marconi — 132 |
| 6. Alexander the Great — 22 | 57. Mark Zuckerberg — 134 |
| 7. Alfred Nobel — 24 | 58. Dr. Martin Cooper — 136 |
| 8. Amelia Mary Earhart — 26 | 59. Martin Luther King Jr. 138 |
| 9. Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam — 28 | 60. Michelangelo — 140 |
| 10. Archimedes — 30 | 61. Michael Phelps — 142 |
| 11. Aristotle — 32 | 62. Mohammad Ali — 144 |
| 12. Aryabhatta — 34 | 63. Mother Teresa — 147 |
| 13. Ashoka — 36 | 64. Napoleon Bonaparte — 149 |
| 14. Aung San Suu Kyi — 38 | 65. Neil Armstrong — 151 |
| 15. Azim Premji — 40 | 66. Nelson Mandela — 153 |
| 16. Benjamin Franklin — 42 | 67. Nikola Tesla — 156 |
| 17. Bhagat Singh — 44 | 68. Oscar Wilde — 158 |
| 18. Bill Gates — 46 | 69. Pablo Picasso — 160 |
| 19. Chandrashekhar Venkatraman — 48 | 70. Pele — 162 |
| 20. Charlie Chaplin — 50 | 71. Plato — 164 |
| 21. Charles Darwin — 53 | 72. Pythagoras — 166 |
| 22. Charles Dickens — 56 | 73. Queen Elizabeth I — 168 |
| 23. Christopher Columbus — 58 | 74. Rabindranath Tagore — 170 |
| 24. Confucius — 60 | 75. Ramakrishna Paramhans — 172 |
| 25. Copernicus — 62 | 76. Ratan Tata — 174 |
| 26. Dalai Lama — 65 | 77. Ray Kroc — 176 |
| 27. Eleanor Roosevelt — 67 | 78. Richard Trevithick — 178 |
| 28. Emmeline Pankhurst — 69 | 79. Sachin Tendulkar — 180 |
| 29. Florence Nightingale — 71 | 80. Sarojini Naidu — 182 |
| 30. Galileo Galilei — 73 | 81. Sigmund Freud — 184 |
| 31. Genghis Khan — 76 | 82. Sir Edmund Hillary — 186 |
| 32. Gautam Buddha — 79 | 83. Sir Isaac Newton — 189 |
| 33. Helen Keller — 81 | 84. Socrates — 191 |
| 34. Henry Ford — 83 | 85. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar — 193 |
| 35. Indira Gandhi — 85 | 86. Srinivasa Ramanujan — 195 |
| 36. Jagdish Chandra Bose — 87 | 87. Stephen Hawking — 197 |
| 37. James Watt — 89 | 88. Steve Jobs — 200 |
| 38. Jawaharlal Nehru — 91 | 89. Swami Vivekananda — 202 |
| 39. Jeff Bezos — 95 | 90. Ted Turner — 205 |
| 40. Jesus Christ — 98 | 91. Thomas Alva Edison — 207 |
| 41. Johannes Gutenberg — 101 | 92. Tim Bernes Lee — 210 |
| 42. John F. Kennedy — 103 | 93. Vasco da Gama — 212 |
| 43. Jonas Salk — 105 | 94. Vinton Gray Cerf — 214 |
| 44. Kalpana Chawla — 107 | 95. Vladimir Lenin — 216 |
| 45. Karl Marx — 109 | 96. Walt Disney — 219 |
| 46. Leo Tolstoy — 111 | 97. William Shakespeare — 221 |
| 47. Leonardo da Vinci — 113 | 98. Winston Churchill — 223 |
| 48. Lewis Carroll — 115 | 99. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — 226 |
| 49. Louis Braille — 117 | 100. Wright Brothers — 228 |
| 50. Louis Pasteur — 119 | 101. Yuri Gagarin — 230 |
A.K. Gandhi, born in Meerut (U.P.), took retirement from the Indian Air Force in 1995 at a young age and engaged himself as full-time freelance writer and translator. He has written a number of book—his areas of interest being history, social study and grammar, which have been published by prestigious publications. He has written several books for academic purposes, which are taught in several CBSE-medium schools across the country. His articles keep appearing in different newspapers and magazines, including the Janvani and Readers’ Digest, as he writes off and on in them.
He also runs two blogs — meerut-amazing.blogspot.in and writerakgandhi.blogspot.in.
