Biography
Biographies of people who shaped their fields
Real stories of founders, leaders, athletes and entertainers: where they started, the choices they made and the lessons you can use in your own career. Each biography covers their background, career highlights, achievements, impact and what they are doing today.
Technology and Business
Steve Jobs
Co-founder, Apple
Dropped out of college, started Apple in a garage and changed how the world uses computers and phones.
Bill Gates
Co-founder, Microsoft
Wrote code as a teenager and built Microsoft into the company that put software on almost every desk.
Jensen Huang
Co-founder & CEO, NVIDIA
Started NVIDIA at a diner table and turned graphics chips into the engine of modern AI.
Sundar Pichai
CEO, Google
Joined Google as a product manager, led Chrome and Android, and rose to lead the company.
Walt Disney
Founder, The Walt Disney Company
Turned a cartoon mouse into one of the world’s biggest entertainment companies and created the modern theme park.
Susan Dell
Philanthropist
Co-founder and chair of the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, focused on children and families.
Shivon Zilis
Tech executive, Neuralink
Venture investor and AI-focused executive who has worked at Bloomberg Beta, Tesla and Neuralink.
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Geoffrey Ogunlesi
Music executive
A&R veteran and founder of The Ogunlesi Group, a Los Angeles music management company.
Mark Zuckerberg
Founder & CEO, Meta
Started Facebook in a Harvard dorm and built Meta, home of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.
Elon Musk
CEO, Tesla & SpaceX
Entrepreneur behind Tesla, SpaceX, X and xAI, and the world’s richest person.
Jeff Bezos
Founder, Amazon
Turned an online bookstore started in a garage into Amazon, and founded Blue Origin.
Satya Nadella
Chairman & CEO, Microsoft
Hyderabad-born engineer who led Microsoft’s comeback through cloud computing and AI.
Tim Cook
Executive Chairman, Apple
Operations expert who succeeded Steve Jobs and led Apple to record growth for 15 years.
Larry Page
Co-founder, Google
Co-created PageRank and Google, then led its parent company Alphabet.
Sergey Brin
Co-founder, Google
Moscow-born computer scientist who co-founded Google and returned to work on AI.
Zhang Yiming
Founder, ByteDance (TikTok)
Software engineer who founded ByteDance and created Douyin and TikTok.
Shou Zi Chew
CEO, TikTok
Singaporean former banker and Xiaomi CFO who leads TikTok worldwide.
Pavel Durov
Founder & CEO, Telegram
Founder of VK and Telegram, the Dubai-based messaging app with over a billion users.
Evan Spiegel
Co-founder & CEO, Snap
Built Snapchat as a Stanford student and turned down a $3 billion offer from Facebook.
Lee Jae-yong
Chairman, Samsung
Third-generation leader of Samsung, the world’s largest maker of memory chips and smartphones.
Sam Altman
CEO, OpenAI
Former Y Combinator president who leads OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT.
Jack Ma
Co-founder, Alibaba
Former English teacher who co-founded Alibaba and became the face of Chinese entrepreneurship.
Sports
Virat Kohli
Indian cricketer
Former India captain and one of the greatest batters of his generation, with the most ODI centuries ever.
MS Dhoni
Former India captain
From railway ticket examiner to the only captain to win three different ICC limited-overs trophies.
Babar Azam
Pakistani cricketer
Lahore-born batter who became Pakistan’s all-format captain and one of the world’s top-ranked batters.
Lionel Messi
Footballer, Inter Miami
Overcame a growth hormone deficiency to win eight Ballons d’Or and the 2022 World Cup with Argentina.
Cristiano Ronaldo
Footballer, Al-Nassr
From Madeira to the top of world football: five Ballons d’Or and the most official goals in history.
Patrick Mahomes
Quarterback, Kansas City Chiefs
Three-time Super Bowl champion widely seen as the best quarterback of his generation.
Travis Kelce
Tight end, Kansas City Chiefs
Three-time Super Bowl winner, record-setting tight end and co-host of the New Heights podcast.
Sachin Tendulkar
Former India captain
The “Little Master”, cricket’s all-time top run-scorer and the only player with 100 international centuries.
Rohit Sharma
Indian cricketer
“Hitman” with three ODI double hundreds, who captained India to the 2024 T20 World Cup.
Wasim Akram
Former Pakistan captain
The “Sultan of Swing”, first bowler to take 500 ODI wickets and a 1992 World Cup winner.
Shahid Afridi
Former Pakistan captain
“Boom Boom” Afridi, who hit a 37-ball ODI century as a teenager and won the 2009 T20 World Cup.
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Shaheen Shah Afridi
Pakistan ODI captain
Left-arm fast bowler, ICC Cricketer of the Year 2021 and three-time PSL-winning captain.
Neymar
Footballer, Santos
Brazil’s all-time top scorer, famous for flair, dribbling and the MSN trio at Barcelona.
Kylian Mbappé
Footballer, Real Madrid
France captain and World Cup winner at 19, now leading the attack at Real Madrid.
Erling Haaland
Footballer, Manchester City
Norwegian goal machine who broke the Premier League scoring record in his first season.
Mohamed Salah
Footballer, Trabzonspor
The “Egyptian King”, record-breaking Liverpool forward and Egypt captain.
David Beckham
Football icon & Inter Miami owner
Manchester United star and England captain who became a global brand and co-owner of Inter Miami.
Lewis Hamilton
F1 driver, Ferrari
Seven-time Formula One world champion with record wins, poles and podiums.
Max Verstappen
F1 driver, Red Bull
Youngest-ever F1 race winner who won four straight world titles from 2021 to 2024.
Michael Schumacher
F1 legend
Seven-time world champion who led Ferrari’s golden era in the early 2000s.
Ayrton Senna
F1 legend
Brazilian three-time world champion famous for speed, wet-weather genius and rivalry with Prost.
LeBron James
NBA player, 76ers
“King James”, the NBA’s all-time leading scorer with four championships and four MVPs.
Stephen Curry
NBA player, Warriors
The greatest shooter in basketball history, who changed the game with the three-pointer.
Michael Jordan
Basketball legend
Six-time NBA champion with the Chicago Bulls and creator of the Air Jordan brand.
Kobe Bryant
Basketball legend
“Black Mamba” who won five NBA titles in a 20-year career with the Lakers.
Valentino Rossi
MotoGP legend
“The Doctor”, nine-time motorcycle world champion with a record 89 premier-class wins.
Marc Márquez
MotoGP rider, Ducati
Spanish rider with nine world titles, including seven in MotoGP.
Entertainment
John Cena
Actor & WWE legend
Record 17-time world champion in WWE who built a second career as a Hollywood actor.
Rowan Atkinson
Actor & comedian
An electrical engineering graduate who became world-famous as Mr. Bean and Blackadder.
Johnny Depp
Actor & musician
From 21 Jump Street to Jack Sparrow, an actor known for unforgettable, eccentric characters.
Dolly Parton
Singer-songwriter
The “Queen of Country” who wrote more than 3,000 songs and gave millions of books to children.
Cassie Ventura
Singer & model
Singer behind the hit “Me & U”, model and actress who later spoke out in a landmark court case.
Kate Gosselin
Former TV personality
Former nurse who became a reality TV star with Jon & Kate Plus 8.
Bigi Jackson
Filmmaker
Michael Jackson’s youngest son, now building his own path as a writer and director.
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Homer Gere
Actor
Brown University graduate starting his acting career in HBO’s Euphoria and Ryan Murphy’s The Shards.
Shah Rukh Khan
Actor & producer
The “King of Bollywood”, from Delhi television actor to one of the world’s biggest film stars.
Salman Khan
Actor & TV host
Bollywood superstar of Maine Pyar Kiya, Dabangg and Bajrang Bhaijaan, and long-time host of Bigg Boss.
Amitabh Bachchan
Actor & TV host
The “Angry Young Man” and “Big B”, star of more than 200 films and host of Kaun Banega Crorepati.
Aamir Khan
Actor & filmmaker
“Mr. Perfectionist” behind Lagaan, 3 Idiots and Dangal, and creator of Satyamev Jayate.
Deepika Padukone
Actress & producer
Former badminton player and model who became one of India’s highest-paid actresses.
Priyanka Chopra
Actress & producer
Miss World 2000 who became a Bollywood star and the first South Asian to lead a US network drama.
Tom Cruise
Actor & producer
Hollywood icon of Top Gun and Mission: Impossible, famous for doing his own stunts.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor & producer
Titanic star and Oscar winner known for his work with Martin Scorsese and environmental activism.
Dwayne Johnson
Actor & WWE legend
“The Rock”: wrestling superstar turned one of the highest-grossing actors in the world.
Keanu Reeves
Actor & musician
Star of The Matrix and John Wick, loved for his kindness and humble public image.
Royals and Public Life
King Charles III
King of the United Kingdom
Britain’s longest-serving heir became king in 2022, after decades of work on charities and the environment.
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
Former Duke of York
Falklands War helicopter pilot and former trade envoy whose royal titles were removed in 2025.