Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins is the title character of a series of children’s books written by P. L. Travers. The books center on a magical English nanny. Mary Poppins is blown by the East wind to Number Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane, London, and into the Banks’ household to care for their children. The books were adapted in 1964 into a musical film titled Mary Poppins from Walt Disney studios starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke.

Nikoli Tesla

He was a Serbian-American inventor,  electrical engineer,  mechanical engineer and physicist.  Being born on July 10, 1856 to a priest he worked with Thomas Edison a short while.

Tesla then got his own laboratories. He developed a range of electrical devices. George Westinghouse helped him patent his inventions and hired him as a consultant. He is also known for his high voltage, high frequency power experiments.

He died penniless. However in 2005 he was listed amongst the hundred top on the Discovery Channel.  In 1960s the General Conference of Weight and Measures honered him in the use of "tesla," as a term of measures.

Muhammad Ali

(born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., January 17, 1942) is an American former professional boxer, philanthropist and social activist. Considered a cultural icon, Ali has both been idolized and vilified…source

 

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein

 (26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language…more

 

Carl Edward Sagan

(November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences.

William Sanford “Bill” Nye

Born:  November 27, 1955

popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, is an American science educator, comedian, television host, actor, and writer, who began his career as a mechanical engineer at Boeing.

George Orson Welles

 (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer and producer who worked in theater, radio and film. He is best remembered for his innovative work in all three media, most notably Caesar (1937), a groundbreaking Broadway adaptation of Julius Caesar and the debut of the Mercury Theatre; The War of the Worlds (1938), one of the most famous broadcasts in the history of radio; and Citizen Kane (1941)…w