My Most Admired People
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Dad and Mom Cyril and Fanny Obi
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Nelson Mandela (1918-2013 ) First democratically elected president of South Africa (1994-1999). Spent 27 years in prison for standing up against apartheid. Nobel Peace laureate, 1993. |
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Aung San Suukyi (Born 1945) Burmese opposition politician (from 2012). Endured more than 20 years in detention as a political prisoner in the hands of the Burmese military dictators. Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 1991. |
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Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th president of the United States. |
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Ronald Reagan (1911-2004) 40th President of the United States: 1981 to 1989. |
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Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) His actual name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The face of India’s struggle for independence, nonviolent resistance, and peace. |
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Oprah Winfrey (born 1954) Kind, brilliant, intelligent, passionate about education, empowered women throughout the world through her 25-year long TV talk show, Oprah Winfrey Show.
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Christiane Amanpour (born 1958) Chief International Correspondent for CNN |
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Geoffrey Canada (Born 1952)
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Martin Luther King Jr. (1929- 1968). American civil rights leader. One of the world's best-known advocates of nonviolent social change. |
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Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007). Courageous. Stood against the Soviet communists following a coup to topple last Soviet President, Mikhail Gorbachev. Elected president of Russia in the first popular election in Russian history, in 1991. |
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Margaret Hilda Thatcher (1925-2013) Longestserving British prime minister of the 20th century (1979–1990).Turned Great Britain around from a strong organized labor-driven economy to a vibrant free market economy. |
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Colin Luther Powell (Born 1937) First black to serve as U.S. Secretary of State (under President George W. Bush): 2001-2005. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989–1993.Retired four-star general in the U.S. |
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Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015). First Prime Minister of Singapore: 1959-1990. Industrialized Singapore and made it the most prosperous nation in Southeast Asia and a world-class modern economy. |
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Kwame Nkrumah (1909 – 1972). Leader of Ghana from 1951 to 1966, and through its independence from the U.K. in 1957. |
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Deng Xiaoping (1904 – 1997) Chinese communist leader (1978-1997). A visionary. Transformed China from the failures of its cultural revolution to the successes of its continuing free market reforms. |
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Alan Greenspan (Born 1926) Chairman, U.S. Federal Reserve (1987- 2006). Showed great leadership during Black Monday (10-19-87), high tech bubble of the late 1990s, and 9-11. Tenure was marked by high growth and low inflation. Best known book: “The Age of Turbulence.” |
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Ben Bernanke (Born 1953) Chairman, U.S. Federal Reserve (2006-present). Showed great leadership over the course of the mortgage crisis in 2007, global financial crisis in 2008-2009, and the economic slowdown that followed. |
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Michelle A. Rhee (Born 1969) Founder of StudentsFirst, a non-profit advocacy organization that works to raise teacher performance and make public schools geared toward student success. Chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public schools (2007 – 2010). |
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Angela Merkel (Born 1954) Chancellor of Germany since 2005. |