Tag: Biography

US, athletics Nine time Olympic gold medallist, Carl Lewis won gold over three Olympics and was the great star of 1980s track and field.

Barack Obama is the 44th and current president of the United States, and the first African American to serve as U.S. president. First elected to the presidency in 2008, he won a second term in 2012.

Colleen Margaretta McCullough AO was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being The Thorn Birds

Alexander Murray Palmer "Alex" Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992)[1] was an American writer known as the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family.

ir William Gerald Golding CBE (19 September 1911 – 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, playwright, and poet. Best known for his novel Lord of the Flies, he won a Nobel Prize in Literature, and was also awarded the Booker Prize for literature in 1980 for his novel Rites of Passage, the first book in what became his sea trilogy, To the Ends of the Earth.

Robin Sharma is a personal management expert and his leadership style is a source of inspiration for individuals and organizations all over the world as he influences them to live as leaders and realize their potentials.

Ruskin Bond was born on 19 May 1934 and he is an Indian author of British descent. He lives with his adopted family in Landour, in Mussoorie, India. The Indian Council for Child Education has recognized his role in the growth of children's literature in India. He got the Sahitya Academy Award in 1992 for Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra, for his published work in English. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1999 and Padma Bhushan in 2014

Shahid Khan Afridi (born 1980)is a Pakistani professional cricketer and captain of the Twenty20 franchise Peshawar Zalmi. Formerly he was also captain of the Pakistan national cricket team

Parveez Ghulam Rasool Zargar is an Indian cricketer who plays as an all-rounder for Jammu and Kashmir

Born: February 13, 1903, Liège, Belgium Died: September 4, 1989, Lausanne, Switzerland Children: Marc Simenon, Pierre Simenon, Marie-Jo Simenon, Johnny Simenon Spouse: Denyse Ouimet (m. 1950–1964), Régine...