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Satya Nadella
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Satya Nadella

Entrepreneur · Microsoft · born August 19, 1967

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Satya Narayana Nadella is an Indian-American business executive. He is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Microsoft, succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014 as CEO and John W. Thompson in 2021 as chairman.

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  1. 46Became CEO of MicrosoftFebruary 4, 2014
  2. ~51Named Time 1002018

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Marc Rowan

Entrepreneur · Apollo Global Management · finance

1962 · United States

$7.9Bolder estimate, as of 2025 · Forbes

Marc Jeffrey Rowan is an American billionaire businessman who is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Apollo Global Management, an American asset management firm. He co-founded the firm in 1990, with Josh Harris and Leon Black, and has been its CEO since 2021.

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Bill Clinton
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Bill Clinton

Politician

1946 · United States

William Jefferson Clinton is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

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Kyra Sedgwick
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Kyra Sedgwick

Actor

1965 · United States

Kyra Minturn Sedgwick is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her starring role as Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on the crime drama The Closer (2005–2012), for which she won a Golden Globe in 2007 and an Emmy Award in 2010.

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Coco Chanel
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Coco Chanel

Entrepreneur · Chanel

1883–1971 · France

Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel was a French fashion designer and businesswoman. The founder and namesake of the Chanel brand, she was credited in the post–World War I era with popularising a sporty, casual chic as the feminine standard of style.

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Willard Boyle
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Willard Boyle

Inventor

1924–2011 · Canada

Willard Sterling Boyle was a Canadian applied physicist who shared one half of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics with George E. Smith for their invention of the charge-coupled device.

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