Original Name Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam
Profession Scientist
Date of Birth October 15, 1931
Mother Tongue Tamil
Home Town Dhanushkodi in Rameswaram district
Schooling 'Samiyar' school in Rameswaram, and Schwartz School in Ramnathapuram
College St. Joseph College, Trichi for BSc degree.
Education DMIT in Aeronautical Engineering from Madras Institute of Technology(1954-57)
Father Jainulabdeen Marakayar
Mother Ashiamma
Achievments Missiles Prithvi, Trishul, Akash, Nag, and Agni Nuclear Tests
His Inspiration Mahatma Gandhi
Favourite author Subramania Bharathi
Special talent He plays Veena
Auto Biography Wings of Fire
Hobbies Reading
Popular quote from his poem "Dreams float on an impatient wind, A wind that wants to create a new order. An order of strength and thundering of fire."
His Vision for India Freedom, Development and Self-Reliance
Awards Padma Bhusan (1981), the Padma Vibhushan (1990), the Bharat Ratna (1997).
Assignment abroad 1963-64 in the United States at the Wallops Island Rocketry Centre and the Langley Research Centre.
Other facts
* He recites the Quran and the Bhagwad Gita with equal devotion
*He is a vegetarian
* Jadavpur University conferred him the honor of Doctor of Science in 1990
* Received an honorary degree of Doctor of Science from IIT, Mumbai in 1991
* Kalam was the first graduate in the family
* He is a bachelor
Name Suzanna Arundhati Roy
Date of birth 24th November 1961
Place of birth Shillong
Brought up in Aymanam, 10 minutes' drive from Kottayam in Kerala
Family
Mom : Mary Roy, a revolutionist
Dad : Tea planter
Husband :Gerard Da Cunha(divorced) now married Pradeep Krishen, film director,
Education
School : Corpus Christie
College: Delhi School of Architecture
Got scholarship to study the restoration of monuments in Italy.
Career
Architect by training, actor,writer,has worked as an aerobics instructor in Delhi,has even sold empty water bottles while she was 16,has worked at the National Institute of Urban Affairs
Achievement
Youngest winner in the history of Booker, bagged the coveted Booker prize for her debut novel "The God of Small Things" in London, on 14 October 1997.
Films Has acted in the film Massey Sahib portraying the role of a rural girl.
Has written and starred in the movie 'In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones'
Has written the script of the movie 'Electric Moon', which was directed by her husband Pradeep Kishen.
Has written the screenplay for The 'Banyan Tree', a television serial.
Books by her
The God of Small Things
The threat of Nuclear weapons
The promotion of Equal Rights
The Narmada dam project
The war on terrorism
Present role
Role of an activist and is waging a battle against the construction of big dams in the central and western states of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat.
Other facts
She received a reported ?500,000 in advances and the rights to her book were sold in 21 countries.
She is the first non-expatriate Indian author and the first Indian woman to bag the booker prize
She left home at 16 and then lived in a squatters' camp, in a small hut with a tin roof, within the walls of Delhi's Ferozshah Kotl
Original Name Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhia
Popularly known as Mother Teresa
Date of birth 26,Aug,1910
Place of birth Skopje in Macedonia
Family
Dad : Kol?
Mom: Drana
Sisters : Aga (1904), Lazar (1907)
Schooling Went to the Lyceum
Turning point in life
1928 joined the Loreto Sisters
In 1929 Sister Teresa was assigned to teach at the St Mary's Convent School in Calcutta, India.
In august 1948 she left Loreto community
Heard God's voice onFirst Call On Sep 1947
God's Message :To leave the convent and help the poorest of poor and to live with them
Second Call on 10 Sep(Inspiration day". )
Message She had to leave the convent to help the poorest of the poor and to live with them.
Achievements
Mother's Order, founded in 1947, has nearly 4000 nuns running orphanages, homes of poor, AIDS hospices and other charitable centres around the world.
1948, she opened the first school for slum children in Calcutta
1952, she opened Nirmal Hriday (or Pure hearts), a home for the dying.
Shishu Bhavan -- the home for babies.
Founded Shanti Nagar colony for lepers where they could build their own houses and could work on their own fields.
She opened homes for aids patients all over the world.
Mother Teresa gave her support to the rehabilitation of the prisoners in India.
Opened soup kitchen to provide a warm meal and a warm place and good food to homeless people
Opened a house for alcoholics, drug addicts and homeless and destitute in Rome.
Awards
1971 Peace prize Pope John XXIII
1972 Koruna Dut, angel of charity, President of India
1975 Albert Schweitzer International Price
1979 Nobel price for Peace
1996 Honorary citizen of America (4th person to get this nomination)
Other facts
When she was a child she was in the Choir, she was a soprano, and second voice.
She also played the mandolin
She liked to be in church, she liked to read and to pray and to sing
