1. Malala Yousafzai: 14 year old girl who was shot by the Taliban who took a stand for freedom of womens' rights and education.
2.Michelle Obama: She has a plan and a goal to make our young people less obese by encouraging kids to exercise, and by restructuring the school lunch program.
3.Martin Luther King Jr.: Non-violent civil rights leader.
4.Martin Luther: Key figure in Protestant reformation (its because of him he have more religious diversity then just cults and catholicism.)
5.Mahatma Ghandi: The principle figurehead of the Indian indepedence movement. He taught a philosophy of non- violence and peaceful protests.
6.Mu'ath: 12 year old blind boy who memorized the entire Quran ( think of how many people memorized the bible let alone while blind.)
7.Samuel Johnson: British author and the creator of the dictionary.
8.Louis Pasteur: French chemist and biologist who developed antidotes to the dangerous illnesses anthrax and rabies. Also, he discovered a way to pasteurize milk.
9.Albert Einstein: German Physicist.
10.Rosa Parks: Civil rights activist.
11.Tim Berners Lee: Creator of the world wide web.
12.Bill Gates: Founder of Microsoft.
13.John Lennon: British popstar and one of the Beatles. He was an icon of the 1960's counter culture revolution.
14.George Orwell: English author whose object was not to promote a certain view, but to arrive at the truth, exposing the hypocrisy and injustice prevalent in society.
15.Helen Keller: Despite disability of both blindness and deafness, she learned to read and write.
16.Eleanor Roosevelt: She helped to draft the United Nations declaration of human rights. In the United states she strived to improve civil rights.
17.Edward Jenner: He led pioneering work on innoculations for small pox.
18.Leo Tolstoy: Influential author, wrote "War and Peace". He had a philosophy of non-violence and a return to rural society.
19.Jesse Owens: He won four gold medals at Hitler's 1936 olympics one of the great moments in track history. This victory helped to puncture the Nazi ideology of Aryan supremacy.
20.Jane Goodall: She made a groundbreaking study into the behavior of chimpanzee's. She became a noted campaigner and activist for environmental protection and kindness to animals
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