Eldrick Woods, better known as Tiger Woods was born on December 30 1975 in Cypress, California.He took the nickname ‘Tiger’ after a friend of his father’s in Vietnam.Tiger Woods at a young age has broken an incredible number of golfing records and his performances up until 2005 were outstanding.Woods is the only player to have […]

Joseph Ratzinger, who became Pope Benedict XVI on 19 April 2005, was born on 16 April 1927 in Marktl am Inn, Germany.Before the death of Pope John Paul II, who was Pontiff for 27 years, Cardinal Ratzinger, as he then was, held the positio ns of Prefect of Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (formerly

On May 29, 1953 Tenzing Norgay (born 15 May,1915 in Nepal) and Edmund Hillary became the first to successfully climb Mount Everest, the highest mountain on earth. Neither climbers would ever acknowledge which of them was technically the first to summit.Tenzing was a Sherpa in the mountainous Khumbu region of Nepal near Mount Everest. He

Thomas Stearns Eliot, better known as T.S. Eliot, was born in St Louis, Missouri on 26 September 1888.T.S. Eliot studied at Harvard and the Sorbonne before winning a travelling scholarship from Harvard to Merton College, Oxford.Eliot decided to settle in England and in 1915 married Vivien Haigh-Wood. After spending 8 years in Lloyds Bank, he

Michael Sylvester Enzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946), usually known as simply Sylvester Stallone, is an American film actor, director, producer and screenwriter. He achieved his greatest successes in a number of action films, notably the Rambo and Rocky series, in both of which he played a largely monosyllabic hero.Stallone was born in New York

Lord Swaraj Paul is a Britain based business magnate a philanthropist. He was born in 1931 in Jalandhar, India. Swaraj Paul founded the multinational company Caparo—the UK-based steel and engineering group. Swaraj Paul went to Britain in 1966 and started his business in 1968. From acquiringone steel unit, he went on to acquire more units

India has given birth to a variety of saints and Godmen. Swami Vivekananda, was a saint with one major difference. He worked towards the upliftment of his people, and not just towards his own salvation. He was a ‘Karmayogi’ in the true sense of the word.Born in Calcutta, on January 12th, 1863 to Vishwanath Datta

Swami Sivananda Saraswati (1887-1963), as he is known under his monastic name, was born Kuppuswami in Pattamadai , Tamil Nadu, India. He is a well-known proponent of Hinduism in its yoga and vedanta forms. Due to his status as a major guru, he is usually addressed with the respectful title of Swami (master).He went to

Swami Ramtirtha (1873-1906) was one of the greatest spiritual figures of modern India. He also visited the United States from 1902-1904 and was one of the first great Swamis to bring the Vedantic teaching to the West, following in the footsteps of Vivekananda. Though his teachings are on par with Vivekananda—indeed often more poetic and

Sushmita Sen, the first Indian to win the Miss Universe pageant  held at Manila, Philippines 1994 was born on November 19, 1975 in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. Daughter of an Air Force Commander her family of Bengali origin was posted in Nagpur, then Jorhat, and finally in Delhi. She did her schooling with English Honours predominantly

Carrying among other things a copy of the Bhagavad Gita, a statue of Lord Ganesha and a packet of samosas, Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams soared into space on board the space shuttle Discovery toward the International Space Station that would be her new home in the stars for the next six months.Discovery, with six other

Sunil Manohar Gavaskar (born July 10, 1949 at Mumbai, Maharashtra), nicknamed Sunny, was a cricket player during the 1970s and 1980s for Bombay and India. He is considered one of the greatest opening batsmen in the history of the sport.He made a spectacular Test debut in 1971 scoring 774 runs in his first Test series

Sunil Bharti Mittal, founder, Chairman and Managing Director of Bharti Group can be labelled as the most ambitious telecom entrepreneur in India. Sunil a former student of Harvard Business School graduated from Punjab University. The son of a parliamentarian, Sunil did not want to follow his father’s footsteps. He had shown an interest in business

Subramanya Bharathi (December 11, 1882 – September 11, 1921) better known as Mahakavi Bharathiar (Maha Kavi meaning Great Poet) in Tamil, is deemed one of the greatest poets of twentieth-century India. A prolific writer, philosopher and a great visionary of immense genius and perspicacity, Bharathiar was also one of the most prominent leaders of the

There were many great heroes born at the time of the freedom movement. Each with his own method of attaining one goal—Independence for India. Some believed in non–violent means, whereas others did not. One such hero was Subhash Chandra Bose, popularly known as ‘Netaji’. Born on January 23, 1897 in Cuttack, Orissa, to a successful lawyer