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MERCY HAS A NAME: Dr. Gary Parker

Early in his surgical career, Dr. Gary joined a Mercy Ships team in Mexico in 1986 and has served with Mercy Ships ever since. He met his wife Susan onboard the hospital ship, and the couple has raised their two children, Carys and Wes, onboard. Dr. Gary has had a...
Jessica Watson

Jessica Watson

Jessica Watson (OAM) navigated some of the world’s most remote oceans and survived seven knockdowns and 210 days alone at sea to become the youngest person to sail solo, nonstop around the world, aged 16. On completion of the voyage, Jessica was met by the then Prime...

Iván “Fairplay” FernándeZ

Is winning all that counts? Are you absolutely sure about that? In December 2012, Spanish athlete Iván Fernández Anaya was competing in a cross-country race in Burlada, Navarre. He was running second, some distance behind race leader Abel Mutai – bronze medalist in...
Georgi Georgiev

Georgi Georgiev

Georgi Georgiev graduated from the “Academy of Art” in Belgrade, and has since integrated his love for art and sculpture into the human-powered machines he now creates. Georgi became interested in Human-Powered Vehicles (HPV) in the late 1970’s and...
Jörn Schulz

Jörn Schulz

‚Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior‘ — Shannon L. Alder Gratitude for a fulfilled life without major strokes of fate led Jörn Schulz, a German teacher for Sports and Spanish, to do something good in return to the world. In 2017 he decided...
Thilo Mischke

Thilo Mischke

When thinking about ´idols´ we often tend to name first-class celebrities, politicians, or famous activists. A journalist who’s not known worldwide wouldn’t come across our minds, usually. And if this journalist & author did publish controversial articles or even...
Kutlu Yurtseven

Kutlu Yurtseven

Kutlu Yurtseven founded the Microphone Mafia in 1989 with his friend from school and childhood, Rossi (Rosario Pennino). For almost 30 years they have been making music with changing line-ups and partners from the migrant and Cologne music scene through Germany,...
Jose Mujica

Jose Mujica

One of the best presidents ever! Seriously. Jose Mujica is maybe one of the most loved people in Uruguay. He served as president from 2010 – 2015 after being long years in prison during the dictatorship period of his country. He was essentially involved in catapulting...
Marcus Hutchins

Marcus Hutchins

Marcus Hutchins deserves to be called a hero. If not for saving the world, then for turning away from the dark hacking community to the good side of fighting cybercrime and all those that want to destroy what humanity has achieved so far. At 22, he single-handedly put...
Maria Montessori

Maria Montessori

Maria Montessori has her deserved place on the wall of fame of the most amazing women in human history. She stepped up for totally new child education in difficult times and had to face many obstacles in her life on her own. “The first idea that the child must...

Theodosii Theodosiev

Theodosii Sabev Theodosiev (born December 1, 1947), known as the “Golden Teacher” of Bulgaria, is an academician and an educator in Applied Mathematics and Physics. “Teo” – as he is known among his friends and students, began his over 40 year long...
Banksy

Banksy

Banksy is an anonymous England-based street artist, vandal, political activist, and film director, active since the 1990s.[2] His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark...
Yuval Noah Harari

Yuval Noah Harari

Yuval Noah Harari is a historian, philosopher, and the bestselling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. Born in Haifa, Israel, in 1976, Harari received his PhD from the University...