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First democratically elected President of Georgia, a distinguished writer, human rights activist, and academic

Macedonian atomic physicist and academician known for his extensive contributions to theoretical and nuclear physics with an h-index of 38 and 346 published papers

18th Prime Minister of Canada, lawyer, businessman, and politician known for leading the Progressive Conservative Party from 1984 to 1993

American singer, songwriter, and pianist known for selling millions of records and composing over 500 songs in pop and soft rock genres

Irish poet and Nobel Prize winner who captured rural Irish life and identity in lyrical verse, acclaimed as the most important Irish poet since Yeats

American actress known for her roles as Julia Sugarbaker on Designing Women and Randi King on Family Law

German physicist and Nobel laureate who co-discovered giant magnetoresistance, revolutionizing hard disk drive technology

Canadian-American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate who discovered the catalytic properties of RNA

Amos Oz, Israeli writer, novelist, journalist, and intellectual who championed a two-state solution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict

American film director, screenwriter, actor, and film historian who was a key figure in the New Hollywood movement

Third President of Botswana who led the nation for a decade from 1998 to 2008, known for his political and economic leadership

Japanese mountaineer and explorer, the first woman to summit Mount Everest and ascend the Seven Summits

Portuguese lawyer and politician who served as President of Portugal for two terms, Mayor of Lisbon, and United Nations High-Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations

Russian military officer who, during a 1983 false alarm, decided not to launch a nuclear counter-strike, a decision that likely prevented a global catastrophe

American pioneer of the civil rights movement who, at 15, refused to give up her bus seat in segregated Montgomery

British chemist who co-discovered fullerenes, earning him the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering work on carbon structures

American-born Swiss singer, songwriter, and actress known as the 'Queen of Rock 'n' Roll' who broke racial and gender barriers in music

Malaysian politician who served as the fifth prime minister of Malaysia from 2003 to 2009, also known as the Father of Human Capital Development of Malaysia