10 Populer People In This World
Selasa, 19 Mei 2009
We knew that we had a lot of famous and populer people in this world. Like an artist, president, actor, athelete, etc.
This is about 10 people who became famous and leader in this world :
1. Eric Cantona
He was born May 24, 1966 in Marseille. He is a former French footballer. He ended his professional footballing career at Manchester United where he won four Premiership titles in five years, including two FA Cup "doubles". Cantona is often regarded as having played a major role in the revival of Manchester United as a footballing powerhouse. In 2000 he was voted Man U's player of the century.
Cantona first joined Leeds United on his arrival in England in 1992 (after having originally arrived in England for a trial with Sheffield Wednesday), where he helped them win the old First Division championship that season (1991/92). In the following season, he was transferred to Manchester United for a relatively small fee of 1.2 million pounds (1.86 million US Dollars). - former Auxerre and Marseille player - needs info
Cantona is infamous for an incident that occurred in January 1995. In an away match against Crystal Palace, Cantona launched a 'kung-fu' style kick against a spectator after being sent off by the referee. He was sentenced to 120 hours of community service after an appeal court overturned a 2 week prison sentence for assault. He was also suspended by the Football Association until October.
After the 1996/97 season, Cantona announced his retirement from football, at the age of 30. Shortly after retiring he became captain of the French National Beach Football team.
His subsequent career has mostly been in the French cinema, primarily as an actor although he has also directed a short film Apporte-moi ton amour in 2002. He was also the "organizer" of "underground" games between football superstars in a Nike ad campaign during the run-up to the 2002 World Cup.
In 2003 he was named foreign Premier League player of the decade by the English FA.
2. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
His populer name is John F. Kennedy or his initial is JFK. He was born 29 May 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts.
He was was the 35th President of the United States, serving for 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
In 1952 he moved up to the U.S. Senate, defeating Henry Cabot Lodge. He married Jacqueline Bouvier on 12 September 1953; they had two children, Caroline (b. 1957) and John Jr. (b. 1960). (A third child, Patrick, was born on 7 August 1963 and died two days later.)
Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was charged with the crime but was murdered two days later by Jack Ruby before he could be put on trial. The Warren Commission and the 1979 House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that Oswald was the assassin, with the HSCA allowing for the probability of conspiracy. The event proved to be an important moment in U.S. history because of its impact on the nation and the ensuing political repercussions. Today, Kennedy continues to rank highly in public opinion ratings of former U.S. presidents.
3. Muhammad Ali
He is a boxer. He was born January 17, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky. At the 1960 Olympics in Rome Ali won a gold medal as a light heavyweight boxer. In 1964, Ali fought heavyweight champion Sonny Liston. In 1965 he joined the nation of Islam and became Muhammad Ali, proclaiming Cassisus Clay was his slave name, later that year he knocked Sonny Liston out in the first round declaring him the undisputed champion of the world.
In 1970 he was victorious in the supreme court and was granted a licence to box again. In 1974 He challenged George Foreman to in my opinion his greatest performance in Manilla, Africa considering Ali was much older and less stronger than Foreman he was obviously going to be the underdog again but Foremans devestating blows exhausted him while Ali conserved his energy.He knocked Foreman out and after 10 years he won his title back. Unfortunately Ali was diagnosed with Parkinsons disease in 1982 and has been in slow decline since.
4. Napoleon Bonaparte
Hewas a military and political leader of France whose actions shaped European politics in the early 19th century.
He was born March 17, 1969 in Corsica, an island between France and Italy.
Revolution was ripe when Napoleon was a young man; his first military role came as a captain at the siege of Toulon he managed to force the British land forces to withdraw which saw him to be promoted to brigadier-general. Returning to Paris, Napoleon set his sites on his English neighbours but being so arrogant Napoleon thought he could invade England and Egypt at the same time so he could take his enemies trading routes.
In 1800 Napoleon personally lead his men over the Alps into Italy so he could surprise the Austrians who are occupying Italy. Beating the Austrians Napoleon was getting more arrogant by the day and on the 2nd of December 1804 he declared himself French emperor for life.
The French invasion of Russia in 1812 marked a turning point in Napoleon's fortunes. His Grande Armée was badly damaged in the campaign and never fully recovered. In 1813, the Sixth Coalition defeated his forces at Leipzig; the following year the Coalition invaded France, forced Napoleon to abdicate and exiled him to the island of Elba.
In 1814 Britain, Russia, Prussia and Austria formed an alliance against France Although the defence of France included many battles which the French won, the pressure became overwhelming and Paris fell on March 31st 1814.
Napoleon was imprisoned and then exiled by the British to the island of Saint Helena, on May 5th 1821 Napoleon passed away, his last words being for his loves "France, the Army, Josephine."
5. Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), also known as Mahatma Gandhi, was born in Porbandar in the present day state of Gujarat in India on October 2, 1869. He was raised in a very conservative family that had affiliations with the ruling family of Kathiawad. He was educated in law at University College, London. In 1891, after having been admitted to the British bar, Gandhi returned to India and attempted to establish a law practice in Bombay, without much success. Two years later an Indian firm with interests in South Africa retained him as legal adviser in its office in Durban. Arriving in Durban, Gandhi found himself treated as a member of an inferior race. He was appalled at the widespread denial of civil liberties and political rights to Indian immigrants to South Africa. He threw himself into the struggle for elementary rights for Indians.
6. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
He was born in Pacitan, East Java, on 9 September 1949. He graduated from the Military Academy in 1973-top in his class. He received his fourth star in 2000. In the first-ever direct presidential election in Indonesia in 2004, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, running on a platform for "more just, more peaceful, more prosperous, and more democratic Indonesia", was elected as the 6th President of the Republic of Indonesia, gaining a landslide 60% of the popular vote over the incumbent President Megawati Soekarnoputri.
President Yudhoyono is also an accomplished scholar. He was educated in the United States, where he received his Masters degree in Management from Webster University in 1991. He continued his study and earned a Doctorate Degree in Agricultural Economics from Bogor Institute of Agriculture, West Java, Indonesia, in 2004. President Yudhoyono was awarded with two honorary doctorates in 2005, respectively in the field of law from his alma mater, Webster University, and in political science from Thammasat University in Thailand.
President Yudhoyono is a devoted Moslem. He is married to Madam Ani Herrawati. The first couple is blessed with two sons. The oldest is First Lieutenant Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, who graduated top in his class from the Military Academy in 2000 and is now serving at the elite 305th Airborne Battalion of the Army Strategic Reserves Command (KOSTRAD). The youngest, Edhie Baskoro Yudhoyono, earned his degree in Economics from Curtin University, Australia. His daughter in law is Annisa Larasati Pohan, which married with his son,Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono and had a beautifull daughter, her name is Almira Tunggadewi Yudhoyono.
7. Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 26, 1910. Her family was of Albanian descent. She was youngest child of couple Nikola and Drane Bojaxhiu. At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. After a few months' training in Dublin she was sent to India, where on May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun. From 1931 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, but the suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls made such a deep impression on her that in 1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. Although she had no funds, she depended on Divine Providence, and started an open-air school for slum children. Soon she was joined by voluntary helpers, and financial support was also forthcoming. This made it possible for her to extend the scope of her work.
On October 7, 1950, Mother Teresa received permission from the Holy See to start her own order, "The Missionaries of Charity", whose primary task was to love and care for those persons nobody was prepared to look after. In 1965 the Society became an International Religious Family by a decree of Pope Paul VI.
Today the order comprises Active and Contemplative branches of Sisters and Brothers in many countries. In 1963 both the Contemplative branch of the Sisters and the Active branch of the Brothers was founded. In 1979 the Contemplative branch of the Brothers was added, and in 1984 the Priest branch was established.
The Society of Missionaries has spread all over the world, including the former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries. They provide effective help to the poorest of the poor in a number of countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and they undertake relief work in the wake of natural catastrophes such as floods, epidemics, and famine, and for refugees. The order also has houses in North America, Europe and Australia, where they take care of the shut-ins, alcoholics, homeless, and AIDS sufferers.
The Missionaries of Charity throughout the world are aided and assisted by Co-Workers who became an official International Association on March 29, 1969. By the 1990s there were over one million Co-Workers in more than 40 countries. Along with the Co-Workers, the lay Missionaries of Charity try to follow Mother Teresa's spirit and charism in their families.
Mother Teresa's work has been recognised and acclaimed throughout the world and she has received a number of awards and distinctions, including the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize (1971) and the Nehru Prize for her promotion of international peace and understanding (1972). She also received the Balzan Prize (1979) and the Templeton and Magsaysay awards.
She was died in September 5, 1997.
She was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 19 October 2003, placing her one step from sainthood in the Catholic faith; after beatification she became known as the Blessed Mother Teresa of Kolkata... Though her parents were ethnic Albanians, Mother Teresa was born in what is now Macedonia and what was then part of the Ottoman Empire.
Her motto of life is " By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus. "
Best Known As: Humanitarian nun of Calcutta, called "The Saint of the Gutters"
8. Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1997 through 2006. He succeeded Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt in the post. Annan was a U.N. veteran who took his first job with the organization in 1962 and worked his way up through various posts, including Deputy Director to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (1980-83) and Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping (1995-96). Annan was the first Secretary-General chosen from the ranks of the U.N.'s staff. He was also the first black man to hold the post and the second African (after Boutros-Ghali). In 2001 Annan and the United Nations were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their ongoing work in global peace and cooperation. Annan was elected for a second five-year term in 2001, and served until the end of 2006. He was succeeded on 1 January 2007 by South Korean Ban Ki-moon.
Annan is married to Nane Maria Annan, a Swedish lawyer and artist who is the half-niece of Raoul Wallenberg. He has two children, Kojo and Ama, from his previous marriage to a Nigerian woman, Titi Alakija, whom he divorced in the late 1970s. Annan also has one stepchild, Nina Cronstedt de Groot, Nane's daughter from a previous marriage.
Annan attended Macalaster College in St. Paul, Minnesota, graduating in 1961... He was a fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management in 1971-72, receiving a Master of Science degree... His wife Nane Annan, a lawyer and artist, is from Sweden... Previous Secretaries-General: Trygve Lie (Norway), 1946-52; Dag Hammarskjöld (Sweden), 1953-61; U Thant (Myanmar, formerly Burma), 1961-71; Kurt Waldheim (Austria), 1972-81; Javier de Perez de Cuellar (Peru), 1982-91; Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Egypt), 1992-96.
9. Boutros Boutros-Ghali
He was born November 14, 1922 in Cairo, Egypt. He is married to Leia Maria Boutros-Ghali.
He became the 6th Secretary-General of the United Nations on 1 January 1992, when he began a five-year term. At the time of his appointment by the General Assembly on 3 December 1991, He had been Deputy Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs of Egypt since May 1991 and had served as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs from October 1977 until 1991.
In September 1978, he attended the Camp David Summit Conference and had a role in negotiating the Camp David accords between Egypt and Israel, which were signed in 1979. He led many delegations of his country to meetings of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) and the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, as well as to the Summit Conference of the French and African Heads of State. He also headed Egypt's delegation to the General Assembly sessions in 1979, 1982 and 1990.
10. Michael Jackson
His complete name is Michael Joseph Jackson, was born August 29, 1958 in Gary, Indiana, USA. Married Lisa Marie Presley in La Vega, Dominican Republic, by Judge Hugo Francisco Alvarez Perez. Witnesses present were Thomas Keough and Eve Darling (Lisa Marie's ex-brother-in-law and his wife, ex-sister-in-law) on May 26, 1994.
