Celebrities of the Month / Year
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Celebrities of the Month / Year News & Resources
 - President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy - Ukrainian politician and former comedian and actor who has served as the sixth and current president of Ukraine since 2019. Zelenskyy was named the Time Person of the Year for 2022 and opinion polls in Ukraine have ranked him as Ukraine's greatest president.
 - Amanda Gorman - "Wordsmith. Change-maker." The youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history, as well as an award-winning writer and cum laude graduate of Harvard University, where she studied Sociology. Gorman read her poem The Hill We Climb at President Joe Biden's inauguration on January 20, 2021, and is the youngest poet to read at a presidential inauguration in United States history.
 - Dr. Anthony Fauci - American physician and immunologist who has served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984. Since January 2020, he has been one of the lead members of the Trump Administration's White House Coronavirus Task Force addressing the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Fauci is considered one of the most trusted medical figures in the country.
 - Greta Thunberg - Swedish environmental activist focused on the risks posed by climate change.
 - what I say is what I say - Donald Trump at Republican Presidential Debate on August 06, 2015.
- Cecil - (c. 2002 - July 1, 2015). male Southwest African lion (Panthera leo bleyenberghi) who primarily lived in the Hwange National Park in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe. He was a major attraction at the park and was being studied and tracked by Oxford University as part of a larger study. Cecil was named after Cecil Rhodes, a 19th century British imperialist and mining magnate. On 1 July 2015, Cecil was shot and killed after Walter Palmer, an American recreational big-game hunter, had wounded him with a bow and arrow. The killing drew international media attention and sparked outrage among animal conservationists, politicians and celebrities, as well as a strong negative internet response against Palmer.
- Pope Francis - (1936-). "The People's Pope." The 266th pope and current Pope of the Catholic Church having been elected on 13 March 2013. Voted TIME's Person of the Year 2013.
- Magnus Carlsen - (1990-) Norwegian chess grandmaster and former chess prodigy who is the reigning World Chess Champion and No. 1 ranked player in the world. His peak rating is 2872, the highest in history.
- Malala Yousafzai - Pakistani school pupil and education activist from the town of Mingora in the Swat District of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. She is known for her education and women's rights activism in the Swat Valley, where the Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. On 9 October 2012, Yousafzai was shot in the head and neck in an assassination attempt by Taliban gunmen while returning home on a school bus.
- Edward Snowden - American former technical contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee who leaked details of top-secret American and British government mass surveillance programs to the press.
- Willard Mitt Romney - American businessman, politician and the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 election.
- PETER HIGGS - best known for the discovery of a new particle called the Higgs boson, also called the God particle.
- WHITNEY HOUSTON - (1963-2012).
- Mitt Romney - "Believe In America." American businessperson and politician. He was the 70th Governor of Massachusetts from 2003 to 2007 and is a candidate for the 2012 Republican Party presidential nomination.
- LINDSAY LOHAN - American actress, pop singer and model.
- KIM KARDASHIAN - American businesswoman, socialite, television personality, model, and actress.
- MICHAEL JACKSON - (1958-2009).
- PETRA ECCLESTONE - daughter of Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone.
- Wedding of Albert II, Prince of Monaco and Charlene Wittstock
- CHARLIE SHEEN - (Carlos Irwin Estevez). American film and television actor.
- JULIAN ASSANGE - Australian internet activist best known for his involvement with Wikileaks ("Courage is contagious"), a whistleblower website.
- Aung San Suu Kyi - Burmese opposition politician.
- COLTON HARRIS-MOORE - known as the "Barefoot Bandit".
- ANNA CHAPMAN - glamorous Russian spy.
- GARY FAULKNER - Osama bin Laden bounty hunter.
- KITTY KELLEY - author of the new best-selling unauthorized biography: Oprah: A Biography.
- JESSE JAMES - (still) married to Academy Award-winning actress Sandra Bullock.
- SCOTT BROWN - United States Republican Senator from Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- THE WHITE HOUSE CRASHERS - "5000 Reasons to Party."
- ANNA WINTOUR - Editor-in-Chief of the American Vogue.
- THE WORLD'S 100 MOST POWERFUL WOMEN - Forbes Magazine.
- BARBIE - celebrated her 50 year-anniversary on March 9.
- FORBES: THE WORLD'S 100 MOST POWERFUL CELEBRITIES 2009
- HOLLYWOOD.TV - Hollywood as it happens!
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- PARIS HILTON
- POPCRUNCH - a celebrity news tabloid for celeb gossip junkies.
- PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
- THE ULMER SCALE - Hollywood's most trusted guide to the global star power of actors and directors!
- TIME MAGAZINE - the world's 100 most influential people 2009.
- WHO ABC.COM - celebrities guide.
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