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Martin Luther King Jr.

Politician · born January 15, 1929 · died 1968

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Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.

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  1. ~34Named Time Person of the Year1963
  2. ~35Received the Nobel Peace Prize1964
  3. ~37Received the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding1966

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1957 · Taiwan

$6.2Bolder estimate, as of July 2016 · Forbes

Tsai Eng-meng is a Taiwanese businessman. He is best known for his leadership of the Want Want food company and his family's later acquisition of various news media companies in Taiwan. He is also chairman of the snack food company Want Want China.

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Giorgia Meloni

Politician

1977 · Italy

Giorgia Meloni is an Italian politician who has served as Prime Minister of Italy since October 2022. She is the first woman to hold the office and the head of the longest-serving government in the history of the Italian Republic.

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Ben Shapiro

Founder · The Daily Wire

1984 · United States

Benjamin Aaron Shapiro is an American conservative political commentator and media host. He writes columns for Creators Syndicate, Newsweek, and Ami Magazine, and is editor emeritus for The Daily Wire, which he co-founded in 2015.

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Edward Teller

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1908–2003 · Hungary

Edward Teller was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist and chemical engineer who is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb" and one of the creators of the Teller–Ulam design inspired by Stanisław Ulam.

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Leonid Kantorovich

Scientist

1912–1986 · Soviet Union

Leonid Vitalyevich Kantorovich was a Soviet mathematician and economist, known for his theory and development of techniques for the optimal allocation of resources. He is regarded as the founder of linear programming.

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