World Famous People

Mahatama Gandhi
Abraham Lincoln
Sir Winston Churchill


Mahatma Gandhi

The Father of the Indian Nation



          Mahandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in a conservative Hindu family in Porbandar, Gujarat. At the age of 13, he was married to Kasturba, following the tradition. He was a practical politician. As the spokesman of his people, he brought freedom to India. India call him the “Mahatma”. He conceived and practiced successfully a new method of solving disputes by means of “Non-Violence”. Gandhi passed away on January 30, 1948.


Lead me from untruth to truth,
From darkness to light,
From death to immortality.



Abraham Lincoln

The President who abolish slavery in the USA



          Abraham Lincoln was born on Sunday, February 12, 1829, in a log cabin near Hodgenville, Kentucky. He was the son on Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln. In 1842, Lincoln married to Mary Todd and had 4 children. He passed away on April 15, 1865.

          Abraham Lincoln, US Republican Statesman, 16th President of USA 1861 – 1865. His election as President on an anti-slavery platform, antipathetic to the interests of the southern states, helped precipitate the American Civil War/ He eventually managed to unite the Union side to the anti-slavery cause, and emancipation was formally proclaimed on New Year’s Day 1864. During his lifetime, Lincoln was noted for his succinct, eloquent speeches, including the famous Gettysburg Address of 1863.


“Government of the people, by the people and for the people
shall not perish from the earth.”



Sir Winston Churchill

The Greatest living Englishman



          Winton Churchill, British statesman was born on November 30, 1874 at Blemheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, a direct descendant of John Churchill. 1st Duke of Marlborough. He was a Prime Minister 1940 – 1945 and 1951 – 1955. He demonstrated rare qualities of leadership and outstanding gifts as an orator. Part of his contribution to victory was to maintain moral at home and to forge and maintain the Alliance, especially with the USA, which defeated the Axis Power. He passed away on January 24, 1965.

          His writings include The Second World War (1948 – 1953) and A History of the English Speaking Peoples (1956 – 1958); he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953.


Sir Winston (Leonard Spencer) Churchill

(1874 – 1965)

“The greatest living Englishman”,
“A gifted strategist and inspiring war leader”,
“A great orator”,
“A talented painter”,
“A stylist writer with a profound sense of history”, etc., etc./

(The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia)


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