Prominent People

Welcome to Prominent People

There are many sites on the Internet where one can find information on well-known international personalities but most of them contain limited information. Biographies of innteresting personalities are often difficult to find as many sites just casually refer to a prominent person. Often there are dozens of newsclippings highlighting peripheral information or updates about his/her recent activities.

In former President Mandela's case one would rather like to read his life-story, and interesting details of his prison experiences rather than browsing through old speeches, newspaper stories and the like.

This web site offers a way to get factual information on specific prominent people in whom you may be interested. You are welcome to submit interesting facts, figures or even photographs to make this site a real experience in knowledge about interesting people.

Under prominent people one can classify leaders in different disciplines, heroes of wars, famous discoverers, high-placed officials, the infamous members of society, legendary figures and those that are often referred to as "celebs". Prominent people are those people that played a significant role in society. Some of them are well-known heads of state, while others contributed towards science, culture, economics, etc.