The English musician, composer, record producer, astrophysicist, and animal welfare advocate is Sir Brian Harold May. As... View More

The English musician, composer, record producer, astrophysicist, and animal welfare advocate is Sir Brian Harold May. As the main guitarist and backing vocalist for the rock group Queen, which he co-founded with drummer Roger Taylor and singer Freddie Mercury, he attained international renown. His contributions to songwriting and guitar playing made Queen one of the most popular bands in music history. View Less

From 1984 to 1989, Rajiv Gandhi, a politician from India, served as prime minister. He became the youngest Indian prime ... View More

From 1984 to 1989, Rajiv Gandhi, a politician from India, served as prime minister. He became the youngest Indian prime minister at the age of 40 when he assumed office following the murder of his mother, then-prime minister Indira Gandhi. Prior to his resignation in December 1990, six months before his own killing, he served till losing the 1989 election and subsequently assumed the role of Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha. View Less

The Scottish physician and scientist Sir Alexander Fleming FRS FRSE FRCS is renowned for having discovered penicillin, t... View More

The Scottish physician and scientist Sir Alexander Fleming FRS FRSE FRCS is renowned for having discovered penicillin, the first widely used antibiotic. The "single greatest victory ever achieved over disease" was the term used to characterize his 1928 discovery of what was eventually known as benzylpenicillin (or penicillin G) from the mold Penicillium rubens. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Ernst Chain and Howard Florey for this discovery. View Less

Indian-born Irish billionaire Cyrus Pallonji Mistry served as chairman of the Tata Group, an Indian business conglomerat... View More

Indian-born Irish billionaire Cyrus Pallonji Mistry served as chairman of the Tata Group, an Indian business conglomerate, from 2012 to 2016. He was the sixth chairman of the group and the only one (after Nowroji Saklatwala) not to have the last name Tata. He was selected by a selection panel to lead the Tata Group in mid-2012 and took over in December of that year. In October 2016, the board of Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata Group, voted to remove Mistry from his position. Former chairman Ratan Tata then returned as interim chairman, and Natarajan Chandrasekaran was appointed as the new chairman a few months later. View Less