Best modern biographies

A list of famous people, chosen mainly from the nineteenth, twentieth or twenty-first centuries. This list includes famous actors, politicians, entrepreneurs, writers, artists and humanitarians.

1. Marilyn Monroe (1926 – 1962) American actress, singer, model
2. Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865) US President during American civil war
3. Nelson Mandela (1918 – 2013)  South African President anti-apartheid campaigner
4. Queen Elizabeth II (1926 – 2022) British monarch since 1954
5. John F.

   Kennedy (1917 – 1963) US President 1961 – 1963

6. Martin Luther King (1929 – 1968)  American civil rights campaigner
7. Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965) British Prime Minister during WWII
8. Donald Trump (1946 – ) Businessman, US President.
9. Bill Gates (1955 – ) American businessman, founder of Microsoft
10. Muhammad Ali (1942 – 2016) American Boxer and civil rights campaigner
11. Mahatma Gandhi (1869 – 1948) Leader of Indian independence movement
12. Mother Teresa (1910 – 1997) Macedonian Catholic missionary nun
13. Christopher Co