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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| 2025 | $6.5B | Forbes · current |
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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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Athlete
1913–1960 · France
Albert Camus was a French philosopher, novelist, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist.
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Scientist
1728–1779 · Kingdom of Great Britain
Captain James Cook was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer, and cartographer who led three voyages of exploration to the Pacific and Southern Oceans between 1768 and 1779.
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Musician
1943 · Canada
Roberta Joan Mitchell is a Canadian singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and painter.
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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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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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