Management & Leadership in Credo: Leadership

German statesman, known as the Iron Chancellor. Born of an old Brandenburg Junker family, he studied at Göttingen and Berlin, and after holding minor judicial and administrative offices he was elected (1847) to the Prussian Landtag [parliament].

American statesman, President of the Southern Confederacy during the American Civil War; b. Fairview, near Elkton, Kentucky.

Italian patriot and soldier, a leading figure in the Risorgimento. He remains perhaps the most popular of all Italian heroes of the Risorgimento, and a great revolutionary hero in the Western world.

18th President of the United States (1869-1877). Commander in chief of the Union army in the Civil War, b. Point Pleasant, Ohio. He was originally named Hiram Ulysses Grant.

16th President of the United States (1861–65). Born on Feb. 12, 1809, in a log cabin in backwoods Hardin co., Ky. (now Larue co.), he grew up on newly broken pioneer farms of the frontier. President during the Civil War. Author of the Emancipation Proclamation, the executive order abolishing slavery in America, who also passed the thirteenth amendment making slavery illegal. Assassinated in 1865 by Southern sympathizer John Wilkes Booth.

26th President of the United States (1901–1909). Of a prosperous and distinguished family, Theodore Roosevelt was educated by private tutors and traveled widely.

US politician; headed the Tweed Ring, a group of Tammany politicians who took control of the financial affairs of New York City about 1870 and misappropriated millions of dollars.

From An African Biographical Dictionary
One of the most notorious contemporary dictators in modern African history.

41st President of the United States (1989–1993). Bush was unsuccessful in his bid for the 1980 Republican presidential nomination, but served two terms (1981–89) as President Reagan's Vice President. In 1988, he won the Republican nomination for President. Bush and his running mate, Dan Quayle, easily defeated the Democratic ticket of Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen.

Founder and leader of National Socialism (Nazism), and German dictator, b. Braunau in Upper Austria.

Burmese politician, daughter of Aung San. She was under house arrest (1989-95) for leading the National League for Democracy, a coalition opposed to Burma's oppressive military junta.

Emperor of Ethiopia (1930-36; 1941-74). He was born Tafari Makonnen, the son of a noted general and the grandnephew of Emperor Menelik II. During the Italian occupation of Ethiopia (1936-41), he lived in exile in England.

Soviet marshal and politician, born in Georgia; general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party 1922-53; premier of the Soviet Union 1941-53.

Chinese statesman, founder and chairman (1949-76) of the People's Republic of China. Mao was a founder member of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921.

U.S. steel manufacturer and philanthropist, born in Scotland: endowed public libraries, education, and research trusts.

US film producer, animator, and pioneer of family entertainment, whose career spanned the development of the motion picture medium, and opened Disneyland, his first theme park. Disney created many world-famous cartoon characters, including Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, made phenomenally successful feature-length animated films, including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937).

Steve Jobs was born in San Francisco, California on 24 February 1955. The adopted son of machine-shop technician Paul Jobs and his wife Clara, he grew up in the working-class communities of Mountain View and adjoining Los Altos, which are located in the area of northern California that came to be known as Silicon Valley.

Explorer, naturalist, and conservationist, born in Dunbar, East Lothian, E Scotland, UK.

Australian-born US media magnate, founder and head of News Corporation, formed in 1979, with worldwide interests.

English poet. He was poet laureate 1850-92. His verse has a majestic, musical quality, and few poets have surpassed his precision and delicacy of language. His poems include The Lady of Shalott (1832), Morte d'Arthur (1842), the collection In Memoriam (1850), Maud (1855), and Idylls of the King (1859).

Multi-award winning American talk-show host, producer, and actress. Producer and host of The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986-present), Winfrey has also acted in films such as The Color Purple (1985) and Beloved (1998).

Hindu religious and political leader and social reformer; advocate of passive resistance; leader of Indian self-government movement. Gandhi’s significance as a twentieth-century philosopher, pilgrim, world leader, and writer lies in his uncompromising reliance on ahimsa—the Hindi and Buddhist doctrine of nonviolence and restraint from harming all forms of life—as a moral force for reforming and transforming unjust established authority. Mobilized the largest nonviolent mass movement known in world history under the banner of satyagraha—the active pursuit of truth through love and nonviolence (ahimsa). Gandhi’s ideas of truth and justice have contributed immensely to the development of moral and political thought, and his demonstrations of the positive and revolutionary power of nonviolence had worldwide impact.

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
American evangelist, Graham was ordained a minister in the Southern Baptist Church, was the pastor of a Chicago church, and in 1944 became an evangelist for the American Youth for Christ movement.

Danish philosopher and religious thinker. Kierkegaard's outwardly uneventful life in Copenhagen contrasted with his intensive inner examination of self and society, which resulted in various profound writings.

US Baptist minister and civil rights leader. Throughout his life, King remained committed to nonviolent direct action as a means of effecting social change. The son and grandson of prominent African American ministers, each of whom bequeathed a legacy of activism in the cause of black civil rights, Martin Luther King, Jr., born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, was the most influential leader of the American civil rights movement.