Unit 9 tpq

This note lists influential figures including Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist known for microfinance;

Theresa May, a former British Prime Minister;

Manal al-Sharif, an activist for women's right to drive in Saudi Arabia;

Ronald Reagan, a former U.S. President;

Margaret Thatcher, the first female British Prime Minister;

Deng Xiaoping, a Chinese leader instrumental in economic reforms;

Augusto Pinochet, a Chilean dictator;

Nelson Mandela, an anti-apartheid revolutionary and former South African President;

Leopold Senghor, a Senegalese poet and president; Pope Francis, the current leader of the Catholic Church;

W.E.B. DuBois, an African American civil rights activist;

Desmond Tutu, a South African Anglican bishop known for his anti-apartheid stance;

F.W. de Klerk, the last apartheid-era president of South Africa;

Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel laureate;

Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate; Jonas Salk, developer of the polio vaccine;

Christian Barnard, a heart surgeon who performed the first human heart transplant;

Robert Jarvik, inventor of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart; Albert Sabin, developer of the oral polio vaccine.