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People who brought change to our world 1978-2008
People who brought change to our world 1978-2008.
- Gulf News
- Published: 03:07 September 30, 2008
1. Shaikh Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum: One of the founding fathers of the UAE
2 Shaikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan: One of the founding fathers of the UAE
3 Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan: Initiated people's participation in the electoral process in the UAE
4 Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum: Guiding Dubai and UAE into the global arena
5 Yasser Arafat: Personified the Palestinian cause for decades and signed a treaty with Israel
6 Michael Gorbachev: brokeup the USSR
7 George Bush: US president who went to warto liberate Kuwait
8 Anwar Sadat: President of Egypt and first Arab leader to sign a peace treaty with IsraelMenachem Begin: rightwing Israeli prime ministerwho signed the treaty with Sadat
9 Indira Gandhi: India's first woman prime minister who dominated the country's politics for years
10 Nelson Mandela: Restored South Africa's soul
11 Benazir Bhutto: First Muslim woman prime minister
12 Professor Robert Winston: Leading exponent of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF)
13 Bill Gates: Founder of Microsoft
14 Margaret Thatcher: Britain's first woman Prime Minister who usheredin privatisation
15 Saddam Hussain: Iraqi president who invadedIran and Kuwait
16 George W. Bush: US president who turned the war on terror into an invasion of Iraq
17 Diana, Princess of Wales: Tried to reinvent theBritish royals
18 Sabeer Bhatia: Invented hotmail with friend Jack Smith
19 Mother Teresa: Nun who devoted her life to bring happiness to the poor
20 Ronald Reagan: US president who refused to accept that the USSRwas an inevitable fact
21 Deng Xiaoping: started reform in communist China
22 Osama Bin Laden: Al Qaida leader, the mostwanted man in the world
23 Tiger Woods : Arguably the best golfer ever
24 John Paul II : Conservative Pope who helped dismantle Communism
25 Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini : Founded the Islamic Republic of Iran
26 JK Rowling and Harry Potter: Inspired a whole generation to read
27 Yves Saint Laurent: Designer who made couture and ready-to-wear clothing a part of everyday life
28 Keith Campbell: Engineered the first-ever cloned mammal Dolly : cloned lamb who lived for six happy years
29 Larry Page and Sergey Brin: Founded Google
30 Diego Maradona: The greatest footballer of our time
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