hip-hop singerBorn: 1971Birthplace: Bronx, New York Raised in New York's housing projects, her singing talent fueled her interest in music, and she began to do solo performances at her church choir…
(Henry John Heinz)food manufacturerBorn: 1844Birthplace: Pittsburgh, Pa. He began his career in the food and condiments business selling garden vegetables to neighbors, and moved up to selling to…
housing developerBorn: 2/11/1907Birthplace: New York City Levitt formed a construction company in 1929 with his brother, who focused on the architectural details, and his father, who managed the…
(Joseph Russell Smith) economist, scholar, geographerBorn: 1874Birthplace: near Lincoln, Va. Having studied and taught economics at the University of Pennsylvania and its Wharton School of…
(Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie)Indonesian political leaderBorn: 6/25/1936Birthplace: Pare-Pare, Indonesia Trained as an aeronautical engineer, Habibie worked as a vice president and director for…
inventorBorn: 5/2/1843Birthplace: Colchester, Ontario, Canada The son of former slaves from Kentucky who had escaped via the Underground Railroad to Canada, at 15 years of age Elijah McCoy traveled…
politicianBorn: 11/18/1957Birthplace: Eufaula, Oklahoma A former University of Oklahoma quarterback, Watts worked as a Baptist minister before being elected to Congress in 1994. In 1999 he was…
George W. Bush's secretary of Veterans' Affairs Born: 4/16/1944Birthplace: New York, N.Y. This is Principi's second time as head of Veterans' Affairs. He served as deputy secretary of the…
entrepreneurBorn: 1936Birthplace: Korea Kim came to the United States in 1955 to study economics at the University of Pennsylvania. After teaching at Villanova University for six years, he founded…
governor of HawaiiBorn: November 14, 1939 Birthplace: Kalihi, Hawaii Cayetano received a B.A. in political science from UCLA in 1968 and law degree from Loyola University Law School in 1971. He…
