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Simon Cowell is an English television personality and entrepreneur. He became famous as a judge on various talent shows like Pop Idol, American Idol and The X factor. He is famous, or rather notorious, for his biting and sarcastic remarks and insults about contestants in the reality shows. A wealthy entrepreneur, he is the founder of the television and music production house, Syco, which produced the highly successful ˜Got Talent' franchise in the U.S. and the U.K. As a youngster, he was thrown out of several schools due to his bad behaviour. He attended college, but dropped out before completing his degree. Concerned, his father arranged various job interviews for him which he deliberately sabotaged. He even got a chance to work as a runner on Stanley Kubrick's movie ˜The Shining', but faced problems with his colleagues due to his ill-tempered behavior. His father managed him a job with EMI Music Publishing and here he rose to the position of an Artists and Repertoire (A&R) man. He was chosen to judge the British music television show, ˜Pop Idol' along with Neil Fox and Nicki Chapman. He was noticed by the public for being the most rude and insensitive judge who did not think twice before passing bitter and insulting comments about the participants”a reputation that only got stronger as he moved on to judge other talent shows.

Bill Gates is an entrepreneur, businessman, software developer, and philanthropist. He is the co-founder of the Microsoft Software Company, which is the largest PC software company in the world. Since Microsoft began in 1975, Bill Gates has held several positions in this company including being, C.E.O, chief software architect, and chairman. He is a famous entrepreneur of the P.C revolution and Forbes has consistently ranked him as one of the wealthiest individuals in the world, beginning in 1987. Bill Gates is the son of a successful lawyer, William H. Gates Sr. His mother, Mary Maxwell Gates, had a short career as a teacher and then devoted her time to raising the kids and working with charities and on civic affairs. Mary also served on some corporate boards. He was born in Seattle, Washington, on 28th October 1955. Since his childhood, Bill Gates was encouraged to be competitive. He developed an interest in computers while at school, and during his teenage years, Bill wrote his first computer program. After completing high school, he enrolled at Harvard University, but he dropped out. Bill Gates chased his passion in computers, teaming up with a friend, Paul Allen, to launch Microsoft in 1975. The company became very successful, and within a few years, Bill Gates became a well-known global entrepreneur. Currently, he is one of the wealthiest people in the world.

Walt Disney was a showman in the truest sense of the word. A pioneering force in the world of animation, he transformed the entertainment industry completely, with his innovative ideas and creative visions. In his over four-decade long career, he changed the way the world looked at animation and was solely responsible for ushering the golden age of animation. Starting off as a mere animator, he soon turned into a business magnate, eventually becoming a major figure in the American animation industry. He co-founded the Walt Disney Production, along with his brother, which went on to become one of the best motion picture producers of the world. The cartoon characters that we love to see today, such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Pluto, are all the brainchild of this artistic inventor. In addition to his contribution in the field of animation, he was the mastermind behind the conceptualization and final formulation of Disneyland, an innovative theme park for children and adults alike. Till date, no other person has singularly contributed to the animation industry as Walt Disney has. To know more about his life and profile, read on.

Popularly known as the ˜Father of the Digital World', Steve Jobs was and still continues to remain the legendary, futurist visionary who created a sensation across the globe with his personal computer revolution! Not the one to be satisfied with a single achievement, he moved on to make history in the world of consumer electronics with his foray into the music and cellular industry. The founder of Apple Inc, Pixar Animation Studios and NeXT Inc, Jobs gave information technology its life and blood. A master of innovation, he was known for his perfectionist attitude and futuristic vision. He foresaw trend in the field of information technology and worked hard to embrace the same in his line of products. With about 346 US patents by his side, Steve Jobs created a revolution in his field with his novel ideas and unique concepts. During his years at the Apple, he administered the development of the iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, and iPad. He was the mastermind behind the working of the company's Apple Retail Stores, iTunes Store and the App Store. Interestingly, with so much to fall back upon, it is quite amusing to know that this legendary innovator was not much educated, in fact a college dropout. To further equip yourself with interesting details of this revolutionary man, scroll further.

Successful businesswoman who became the founder and editor-in-chief of Varli Magazine which educates the world on Indian cuisine. Her other ventures include the creation of the Varli Food Festival and VarliWare kitchen equipment.

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an internet entrepreneur and philanthropist from America. He co-founded Facebook and serves as its current chairman and chief executive officer. A New York native, Zuckerberg studied psychology and computer science at Harvard University. During this period, he and his college roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, launched Facebook from their dormitory. Initially meant to be for select college campuses, the site witnessed exponential growth in the following few years and became the world's biggest social media platform. As of the third quarter of 2018, Facebook had amassed over 2.27 billion monthly active users. Zuckerberg has also been involved with several other projects, including Wirehog, a file-sharing program, and Internet.org, a conglomerate of several companies attempting to bring affordable access to selected internet services in less developed countries. Over the course of his professional career, Zuckerberg has encountered a number of legal controversies. In April 2018, he appeared before the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation to testify on Facebook's use of personal data in relation to the Facebook“Cambridge Analytica data breach. Since 2010, he has been listed among the 100 wealthiest and most influential people by ˜Time' magazine as part of its Person of the Year issue. In 2016, Forbes named him the 10th most powerful person in the world.

Elon Musk is one of the greatest and most prolific modern inventors and is responsible for monumental advancements in futuristic technology like renewable energy and space travel. Many of his innovations seem to be right out of a science-fiction movie, but throughout his career he has brought about huge scientific breakthroughs. After making his first fortune from the internet payment service ˜PayPal', he invested $100 million in his space travel company, ˜SpaceX' and began building satellites, launch vehicles and other spacecraft both for NASA and for his own company, creating new milestones with his privately funded spacecraft. Many of his revolutionary ideas and inventions focus on space travel, renewable energy, commercial electric cars and other technologies, that look to a future where fossil fuels and other resources may be in shorter supply. His futuristic and visionary ideas have won him both scientific and philanthropic recognition and awards. The pop culture sometimes portrays him as a sort of real life super hero, dedicated to providing worldwide solutions to international problems. Musk looks to the future, hopes for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe and continues to plan far-reaching futuristic goals such a human colony on Mars. Scroll down to learn all about this illustrious personality.

Michelle Phan is an internationally renowned makeup and beauty vlogger whose self-titled YouTube channel has almost 9 million subscribers and over 1.1 billion views. Probably the best known beauty vlogger in the entire world, she is highly popular not only in the United States and Europe, but also across cultures in Asian and Middle Eastern countries. Her success as a vlogger has led her to various other exciting opportunities as well and she has collaborated with the cosmetics giant L'Oreal to launch her range of makeup products under the brand name ˜em by Michelle Phan.' She is also one of the co-founders of ipsy.com, the world's largest online beauty community, which boasts of over a million subscribers in the US and is rapidly gaining popularity in other nations as well. Beginning her online career as a blogger, Michelle soon took to YouTube on the behest of her fans. Since then, she has produced and released over 300 videos, many of which have been viewed over a billion times. Her artfully done videos with easy-to-understand instructions that can be followed by anyone are the reason behind her online stardom.