George Washington is a leader of the American Revolutionary War. He was the first president of the United States and served two terms, from 1789 to 1797. His home in…

Henry David Thoreau was an American author, poet, philosopher, and abolitionist. He is best known for his book Walden. Born in 1817 to a once-prosperous family on the verge of…

Henry Ford is a man who has had many accomplishments in his life. He first founded the company that would later become Ford Motor Company, and he was also responsible…

Herb Kelleher is a man of many talents. He was the founder and CEO of Southwest Airlines, which he ran for over 40 years. Herb also served as Chairman Emeritus…

Howard Schultz is the founder of Starbucks and has an estimated net worth of $3.1 billion. He was born to a middle-class family in Brooklyn, New York, on July 19,…

Isaac Newton was born on the 25th of December, 1642, near Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire. He is arguably one of the most influential people to have ever lived; his discoveries…

On a cold November night in 1990, an unemployed single mother disappeared from her small flat on the outskirts of Edinburgh. Nobody heard from her again. Then, the following summer,…

Jack Dorsey is CEO of Twitter and founder/co-founder of Square, Inc. He had previously founded an online dispatch company called the Dispatch Corporation. Dorsey was born in St. Louis, Missouri,…

Jack Ma is the founder of Alibaba, one of the world’s largest online commerce platforms. Forbes has ranked him as one of China’s top ten richest people, and he was…

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born on August 28th, 1749, in Frankfurt am Main. He was the son of a lawyer and grew up with his sister Elisabeth who would…

John Rockefeller was born in 1839 to a con artist father and a pious mother. He grew up being taught that money was the root of all evil, but he…

Karl Marx is a man who, in the 1800s, proposed that human societies progress through stages of history. He argued that capitalism and communism are not opposing forces but rather…