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Ross Perot, Jr.

Entrepreneur

1958 · United States

$6.5Bolder estimate, as of 2025 · Forbes

Henry Ross Perot Jr. is an American real estate developer and businessman best known for his development of Alliance, Texas, an inland port near Fort Worth, and for making the first circumnavigation of the world in a helicopter, at age 23.

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Leon Trotsky

Politician

1879–1940 · Mexico

Lev Davidovich Trotsky, better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist.

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Albert Camus

Athlete

1913–1960 · France

Albert Camus was a French philosopher, novelist, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist.

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Joni Mitchell

Musician

1943 · Canada

Roberta Joan Mitchell is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and painter.

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Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

Scientist

1888–1970 · India

Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman was an Indian physicist known for his work in the field of light scattering. Using a spectrograph that he developed, he and his student K. S.

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Konrad Lorenz

Creator

1903–1989 · Austria

Konrad Zacharias Lorenz was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, the study of animal behavior.

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