Marco Polo who taught the world about China
Ibn Battuta who travelled to 44 countries
Christopher Columbus who discovered new worlds
James Cook, first to sail around the world in both directions
David Livingstone who explored Africa
Yuri Gagarin, the first man to go into space

Pablo Casals, the Catalan cello-player
Louis Armstrong, the American trumpet-player and singer
Frank Sinatra, the Italian-American singer and actor
dith Piaf, France's famous singing star
Maria Callas, the Greek opera singer
Elvis Presley, the man who changed pop music

Alfred Nobel, creator of the Nobel Prize
Andrew Carnegie, the businessman who built libraries for poor people
John D. Rockefeller who made money from oil and gave it all away
Thomas Barnardo who created homes for poor children
Henry Wellcome who used his money for medical research
Madam C. J. Walker who gave her money to the African-American community

Antoine Lavoisier who wrote the first modern chemistry textbook
Humphry Davy who discovered laughing gas’
Charles Darwin who changed people’s ideas with his theory of evolution
Gregor Mendel who first discovered the science of genetics
Louis Pasteur who saved millions of lives by killing germs
Francis Crick who helped to discover the structure of DNA

Geoffrey Chaucer, writer of the first great works of English Literature
William Shakespeare, writer of the greatest plays in history
Charles Dickens who wanted to make England a better place
Victor Hugo, the French writer who cared about the poor
Leo Tolstoy, the man who wrote War and Peace
Rudyard Kipling who wrote The Jungle Book and won a Nobel Prize