Alphabetical Index

Two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Order of Canada, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards are just a few of the many accolades Atwood has received for her writing.

By isolating radium and studying its nature and compounds, she was able to discover the elements polonium and radium, which earned her the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

By using peaceful resistance and civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other types of legalized discrimination, which primarily targeted African Americans, he expanded civil rights for people of color in the United States.

"Every company needs technology, but we're graduating fewer women technologists," she said in September 2016, announcing her goal to boost workplace diversity, particularly in the technology sector. Society would not benefit from such. We must alter it.

In order to give her characters' motivations psychological depth and agency that go beyond conventional archetypes, she frequently refines their dialogue as part of her artistic process.

Mother Teresa won a number of awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and the Ramon Magsaysay Peace Prize in 1962. Books, documentaries, and movies have all been influenced by her life and work.

By promoting racial harmony, a national peace treaty, and ultimately multiracial democracy, his administration aimed to eradicate the legacy of apartheid. He was the head of the African National Congress (ANC) party from 1991 to 1997 and was a socialist and African nationalist by ideology.

From 1991 until 2012, he was the chairman of Tata Group and Tata Sons. From October 2016 to February 2017, he was the interim chairman.

He has become a well-known figure throughout the world because of his work in retail, music, and transportation, as well as his love of adventure and humanitarian activity. Time magazine named him one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2007. Forbes magazine projected Branson's net worth to be $3 billion in June 2023.

For 310 weeks (the second-most ever), including a record 237 weeks in a row, Roger Federer was rated as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).

In Atlanta, Georgia, she started the intimate clothing brand Spanx, which sells pants and leggings. Blakely was included in Time magazine's "Time 100" list of the world's 100 most powerful individuals in 2012. Forbes ranked her as the 93rd most powerful woman in the world in 2014.

Born on August 19, 1967, Satya Narayana Nadella is a well-known American businessman who is presently Microsoft's chairman and CEO.

American tennis player Serena Jameka Williams was born on September 26, 1981. The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) placed her as the world No. 1 in women's singles for 319 weeks, which is the third-longest ever, and she concluded the year as the top player five times.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee (born 8 June 1955, London, England) is a British computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.

Bolt is the only sprinter to win the Olympic 100-meter and 200-meter titles three times in a row (2008, 2012, and 2016). He also took home two gold medals from the 4 × 100 relay.