Coach Bhagwan Nagarkoche — Nanded (Maharashtra): At Sainik School, Sagroli in Eastern Maharashtra, they are adding another truism. It’s 5 am and young boys and girls collect at the school playground. A few quick warm up exercises and time for action — running a seven kilometre route as Coach Nagarkoche checks their timings. There is no great science. It is …

Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (born 26 March 1941), known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author. He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was the University of Oxford’s Professor for Public Understanding of Science from 1995 until 2008. Dawkins describes his childhood as “a normal Anglican upbringing”. Though he began having doubts …

Swami Chinmayananda is counted amongst the most notable spiritual leaders in India. He was considered as an authority on the ancient Indian scriptures, especially the sacred Bhagwad Gita and the Upanishads. He was the founder of the Chinmayananda Mission and also the author of more than 30 books, dedicated to the philosophical belief behind religion. Read this biography on Swami …

Bryan Adams — Bryan Guy Adams, is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and photographer. He was Born on 5 November 1959. He was born in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, to English parents. Adams’s father was a diplomat so he grew up traveling around the world with his parents. In 1973, Adams’s family returned to Canada and settled down in Vancouver, …

The legendary hero, Bruce Lee, was born on 27th November, 1940 at the Jackson Street Hospital in San Francisco Chinatown. His real name was Jun Fan Lee. With love his parents called him Sai Fung. His father’s name was Lee Hoi Chuen. When Bruce Lee was born his father was performing with the Cantonese Opera Company in America. Bruce debuted …

Brooke Billett — Brooke started athletics in 1994, competing mostly in school competitions. She was selected for the 1998 World Junior Championships, however didn’t progress past the qualifying rounds. In February 2000 Brooke became only the 7th Australian to throw over 60m and broke 70m for the first time. throwing 70.72 to win her second national title. In March she …

Brian Crane — Pickles, by Brian Crane, is considered by many to be one of the funniest and most charming newer comic strips in newspapers today. Despite an initial period of discouragement and rejection, Crane overcame the odds and is now enjoying all the rewards of successful comic strip syndication. For years, Crane worked at an advertising agency and his …

Brian Charles Lara (born May 2, 1969) (nicknamed “The Prince of Port-of-Spain” or simply “The Prince”) is a West Indies cricketer. Lara has several times topped the Test batting rankings and being the current world record holder for the highest individual innings score and the all-time leading run scorer in Test cricket. Biography Brian was born in Cantaro, Santa Cruz, Trinidad …

Bono — Paul David Hewson famously known as Bono was born in the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin on 10 May 1960. He was raised in Glasnevin with his brother, Norman Robert Hewson (who is eight years older than Bono), by their mother Iris, a Church of Ireland Anglican, and their father Brendan Robert “Bob” Hewson, a Roman Catholic. His parents initially …

Bill Gates — Gates was born in Seattle, Washington, to William H. Gates, Sr. and Mary Maxwell Gates, of English, German, and Scotch-Irish descent on October 28, 1955. His family was upper middle class. His father was a prominent lawyer, his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and the United Way, and her father, J. …