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Name : Saad Mazhar Qureshi

ID : SP12-BB-0056

Course : Oral Communication

Report On : Top Ten Successful Women

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Acknowledgement

At the onset I would like to thank ALLAH who gave me strength to compile this report with my own efforts and collected the data.

I hope that the report I tried to make will afford information and true picture to the readers and they might show the deep sense of appreciation for my effort.

I am thankful to my course instructor Ma’am Rubina Safdar who helped me throughout the entire course and guided to complete this report successfully.

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Table Of Contents

Contents Page #

Cher Wang 4

Fatima Jinnah 6

Angela Merkel 8

Indra Nooyi 11

Melinda Gates 13

Mother Teresa 15

Lady Gaga 17

Asha Bhosle 19

J K Rowling 22

Sheryl Sandberg 24

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1. Cher Wang

Cher Wang born in Taiwan September 14, 1958, is a Taiwanese entrepreneur .Her

father was Wang Yung-ching, who was one of the richest individuals in Taiwan. Wang is

a co-founder and the chairperson of the HTC Corporation and VIA Technologies. She is

married with two children. Her husband is Wen Chi Chen, the CEO of VIA

Technologies.

She received her master's degree in economics from the University of California,

Berkeley in 1981, then joined First International Computer (FIC) in 1982. Cher Wang

has established a number of successful IT-related businesses, including founding VIA

Technologies, Inc. in 1987 and co-founding HTC Corporation in 1997. She is currently

Chairwoman of both companies, and holds leadership roles in numerous other

enterprises and organizations.

Cher is active in the international business community, participating as an Industry

Partner at the World Economic Forum and as a member of the APEC Business

Advisory Council (ABAC). In 2010, Cher co-founded the ABAC Women’s Forum to

identify capacity-building policy recommendations that enhance opportunities for women

in business, and to hold outreach activities within APEC economies.

Cher’s business achievements have been widely acclaimed in major international

media. In 2011, she received the 20th spot on both Forbes’ and Fortune’s annual ‘most

powerful women’ lists with a net worth of US$8.8 billion.

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Cher ranks so highly on this list as she is perhaps arguably the most successful female

entrepreneur in the world. Her wealth is primarily of her own making rather than being

down to working for a large firm or being born wealthy.

She spent many years manufacturing cell phones for other people which earned her a

tidy fortune, it wasn’t until she set-up her own company HTC, that her wealth really took

off. her HTC smartphones have quickly gain notoriety and in 2010, accounted for 20%

of the smartphone market.

You may not have heard of her, but she’s undoubtedly influential and her income is

entirely down to her own wits rather than any other factor, that’s why Cher

Wang deserves the number one spot on this list of the top ten most influential women

entrepreneurs.

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2. Fatima Jinnah

Fatima Jinnah born in July 30, 1893 and died in July 9, 1967, was a dental

surgeon, biographer, stateswoman, and one of the leading Founding mothers of

modern-state of Pakistan, and was also the younger sister of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the

founder of Pakistan.

Educated and obtaining the dental degree from the University of Calcutta, accompanied

Muhammad Ali Jinnah, taking active participation in the politics, and was an influential

political figure in the movement for independence from the British Indian Empire. After

the declaration of the Pakistan Resolution in 1940, Fatima Jinnah was one of the

influential and founding members of the Pakistan Movement, calling for independence

of independent Muslims states into one national identity. During at this time, Fatima

Jinnah also played a pivotal role in civil rights and introduced the women's rights

movement in the Pakistan Movement. After the independence, Fatima Jinnah co-

founded the Pakistan Women's Association (APWA), while significantly played an

integral role in the settlement of the Urdu-speaking mass in the newly formed country.

After the death of her brother, she continued to work for the welfare of the Pakistan's

people though charities and the institutions. Her active role in national politics return in

1965 after Jinnah announced her presidential candidacy running against Ayub Khan in

the1965 elections, traveling West-Pakistan and East-Pakistan on emergence during the

election campaign, promising to initiate Jinnah's vision of Pakistan, promulgation of the

equal civil rights, education and vowed to solve the energy crises. She conceded her

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defeat in the elections, with many experts believing that the ballots were forcefully

rigged by Ayub Khan and his son. After battling a long illness, Fatima Jinnah died on

in Karachi, Sindh Province of West-Pakistan on July 9, 1967. After her death, Fatima

Jinnah was honored and she is commonly known in Pakistan as Khatoon-e-

Pakistan Lady of Pakistan and Mader-e-Millat (Mother of the Nation).

Fatima Jinnah remained extremely popular and is considered as one of the greatest

woman Pakistan has produced. Fatima Jinnah is portrait as a source of awakening of

woman rights. In Pakistan, she rose to stand as Pakistan's national symbol, and unlike

Ayub Khan who died in poor health and yet no honors were given him, Ms Jinnah

received tremendous honors from the society after her death. Later, the Government of

Pakistan built a monument in honor and remembrance of her.

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3. Angela Merkel

Angela Dorothea Kasner was born on July 17th, 1954 in Hamburg, Germany. She is the

oldest of Horst and Herlind Kasner’s three children and has a brother, Marcus, and a

sister, Irene.

She was raised in the small, country side town of Templin, roughly 50 miles north of

Berlin, in the German Democratic Republic (also known as East Germany). Living in the

GDR meant that she was a part of the socialist-led Free German Youth movement.

Through this organization she showed her leadership skills at a young age becoming a

district board representative and secretary of Agitprop. Merkel did not take part in the

secular coming of age ceremony Jugendweihe which was very popular in East

Germany.

Her family, led by her father who was a Lutheran pastor, had “sympathetic” views

towards the communist regime of the GDR because they were given freedoms typically

denied to Christian pastors – such as easily crossing from West Germany to East

Germany, and owning two cars.

After being educated in Templin, Merkel attended the University of Leipzig, where she

studied physics from 1973 to 1978, earning her doctorate in 1978. She then worked at

the Central Institute for Physical Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin-

Adlershof from 1978 to 1990.

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In 1977, Angela Kasner married physicist Ulrich Merkel, but the marriage ended in

divorce in 1982. Merkel remarried in 1998 to Joachim Sauer, a Chemistry professor

from Berlin who she has been married to since.

Merkel first entered the political world in 1989, after the fall of the Berlin Wall. She joined

East Germany’s new democratic party, Demokratischer Aufbruchfirst, and in the first

and only democratic elections held in East Germany, Merkel was elected to be the

deputy spokesperson for the new government led by Lothar de Maizière.

After the unification of East and West Germany, her party merged with the Christian

Democratic Union Party (CDU), and in the first post-unification democratic elections

Merkel was elected to the Bundestag (the German parliament). After her election, she

was appointed by Helmut Kohl’s, the then Chancellor and CDU party leader, to his

cabinet as the Minister for Women and Youth. “In 1994, she was appointed by Kohl to

be the Minister for the Environment and Reactor Safety, the post which served as

foundation of her political career.

When Kohl’s government was defeated in the 1998 elections, Merkel became the

CDU’s Secretary-General; and after a financial scandal in 1999, she was elected as the

CDU’s first female chairperson and took hold of the position on April 10th, 2000.

Merkel represented a dramatic change in the CDU party, which before her election was

primarily “a male-dominated, socially conservative party with deep Catholic roots,

and…strongholds in western and southern Germany.”ᶱ Merkel, on the other hand, was

a Protestant woman, who had a strong base of constituents in Northern Germany. For

these reasons, she was very popular amongst the German population and was

considered the favorite to be the candidate for Chancellor for the CDU and its sister

party, the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU), in the 2002 general elections.

Those elections however turned out to be less than favorable. Merkel lost the

candidacy primarily due to lack of support from her own party. She was politically

undermined by the CSU party leader, Edmund Stoiber who won the candidacy for the

CDU/CSU ticket, but lost the Chancellorship to Gerhard Schröder.

After Stoiber lost the elections, in addition to being the CDU’s chairperson, “Merkel

became leader of the conservative opposition in the lower house of the…Bundestag.”ᶱ

During her time as leader of the conservative opposition, Merkel advocated for many

policy changes regarding the German economic system (such deregulation policies

which seemed extremely pro-market even for her own conservative party) and

supported a strong German – United States relationship and supported the United

States invading Iraq, even despite public opposition.

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Although her policies were sometimes unfavored by the German population, her

popularity never lessened and in the 2005 general elections, not only did Merkel win the

candidacy for the CDU/CSU ticket, she also beat out former Chancellor Gerhard

Schröder, becoming Germany’s first female (and East German) Chancellor.

Great responsibility rests on this lady’s shoulders as leader of Europe’s most powerful

and richest economy, Germany. Her influence and persuasion skills are likely to affect

millions of Europeans and billions of others around the world. The global economy

effectively is in her hands.

Angela Merkel is Germany’s first female leader and her decisions are highly likely to

impact the history of Germany.

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4. Indra Nooyi

Nooyi was born in Chennai , India. She was educated at Holy Angels Anglo Indian

Higher Secondary School in Madras. She received a Bachelor's degree in Physics,

Chemistry and Mathematics from Madras Christian College in 1974 and a Post

Graduate Diploma in Management (MBA) from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta

in 1976. Beginning her career in India, Nooyi held product manager positions at

Johnson & Johnson and textile firm Mettur Beardsell. She was admitted to Yale School

of Management in 1978 and earned a Master's degree in Public and Private

Management. While at Yale, she completed her summer internship with Booz Allen

Hamilton. Graduating in 1980, Nooyi joined the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and

then held strategy positions at Motorola and Asea Brown Boveri.

Nooyi joined PepsiCo in 1994 and was named president and CFO in 2001. Nooyi has

directed the company's global strategy for more than a decade and led PepsiCo's

restructuring, including the 1997 divestiture of its restaurants into Tricon, now known as

Yum! Brands. Nooyi also took the lead in the acquisition of Tropicana in 1998, and

merger with Quaker Oats Company, which also brought Gatorade to PepsiCo. In 2006

she became the fifth CEO in PepsiCo's 44-year history.

According to Business Week, since she started as CFO in 2000, the company's annual

revenues have risen 72%, while net profit more than doubled, to $5.6 billion in 2006.

Nooyi was named on Wall Street Journal's list of 50 women to watch in 2007 and 2008,

and was listed among Time's 100 Most Influential People in The World in 2007 and

2008. Forbes named her the #3 most powerful woman in 2008. Fortune ranked her the

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#1 most powerful woman in business in 2009 and 2010. On the 7th of October 2010

Forbes magazine ranked her the 6th most powerful woman in the world

While CEO of PepsiCo in 2011, Nooyi earned a total compensation of $17 million which

included a base salary of $1.6 million, a cash bonus of $2.5 million, pension value and

deferred compensation was $3 million

Forbes magazine ranked Nooyi fourth on the 2008 and 2009 list of The World's 100

Most Powerful Women. Fortune magazine has named Nooyi number one on its annual

ranking of Most Powerful Women in business for 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010. In

2008, Nooyi was named one of America's Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report.

In 2008, she was elected to the Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and

Sciences.

In January 2008, Nooyi was elected Chairwoman of the US-India Business Council

(USIBC). Nooyi leads USIBC's Board of Directors, an assembly of more than 60 senior

executives representing a cross-section of American industry.

Nooyi has been named 2009 CEO of the Year by Global Supply Chain Leaders Group.

In 2009, Nooyi was considered one of "The Top Gun CEOs" by Brendan Wood

International, an advisory agency. In 2010 she was named #1 on Fortune's list of the

"50 Most Powerful Women" and #6 on Forbes' list of the "World's 100 Most Powerful

Women". After five years on top, PepsiCo's Indian American chairman and CEO Indra

Nooyi has been pushed to the second spot as most powerful woman in US business by

Kraft's CEO, Irene Rosenfeld.

Nooyi was named to Institutional Investor's Best CEOs list in the All-America Executive

Team Survey in 2008 to 2011

Indra Nooyi is one of the most powerful women in business having held executive

positions in many of the world’s top companies.

She is currently Chairwoman and CEO of Pepsico which is the second largest food and

drink company on the planet. She has not only excelled in business but also in

academia, earning degrees in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics as well as an MBA

in management in her native India, she then went on to earn a Master’s degree in Public

and Private Management at Yale.

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5. Melinda Gates

Melinda was born in 1964 in Dallas, Texas. She was the second of four children born to

Raymond Joseph French Jr., an engineer, and Elaine Agnes Amerland, a homemaker.

She has an older sister and two younger brothers. Gates, a Roman Catholic, attended

St. Monica Catholic School, where she was the top student in her class year. She

graduated as valedictorian from Ursuline Academy of Dallas in 1982. Gates earned a

bachelor's degree in computer science and economics from Duke University in 1986

and an MBA from Duke's Fuqua School of Business in 1987.

Shortly thereafter, she joined Microsoft and participated in the development of many of

Microsoft’s multimedia products including Publisher, Microsoft Bob, Encarta, and

Expedia.

In 1994, she married Bill Gates in a private ceremony held in Lanai, Hawaii. Shortly

thereafter, she left Microsoft to focus on starting and raising her family. Her last position

was Microsoft’s General Manager of Information Products. Melinda and Bill Gates have

three children: daughters Jennifer Katharine Gates (born 1996) and Phoebe Adele

Gates (born 2002), and son Rory John Gates (born 1999). The family reside in a large

mansion on Lake Washington.

Melinda served as a member of Duke University's board of trustees from 1996 to

2003.Gates attends Bilderberg Group conferences and holds a seat on the board of

directors of the Washington Post company. She retired from the board of Drugstore.com

in August 2006 to spend more time working for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

In December 2005, Melinda and Bill Gates were named by Time as Persons of the Year

alongside Bono. Melinda and Bill Gates received the Spanish Prince of Asturias Award

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for International Cooperation on May 4, 2006 in recognition of their world impact through

charitable giving. In November 2006, Melinda and Bill Gates were awarded the Order of

the Aztec Eagle for their philanthropic work around the world in the areas of health and

education, particularly in Mexico, and specifically in the program "Un país de lectores".

She was ranked #40 in Forbes 2008 list of the 100 Most Powerful Women, #24 in 2007,

and #12 in 2006.

In May 2006, she was honored for her work to improve the lives of children locally and

around the world with the naming of the Melinda French Gates Ambulatory Care

building,[16] at Seattle Children's (then called Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical

Center). She also chaired The Campaign for Children’s, a $300 million comprehensive

fundraising campaign to expand facilities, fund undercompensated and uncompensated

care and grow the hospital’s research program to find cures and treatments.

On June 12, 2009, Melinda and Bill Gates received honorary degrees from the

University of Cambridge. Their benefaction of $210 million in 2000 set up the Gates

Cambridge Trust, which funds postgraduate scholars from outside the UK to study at

the University.

Melinda has also donated over $10 million to her high school Ursuline Academy of

Dallas. She is one of the major donors of their Facing the Future Campaign and was

honored in their dedication ceremony on May 7, 2010

Although her husband Bill Gates is mostly responsible for their wealth, she has been

responsible for talking him into co-founding a charitable organization with the money

made from Bill’s empire. Bill Gates has stated that when he dies, all of his $40 billion

fortune will have been spent on good causes. Melinda & Bill Gates have already

donated $27 billion to charitable causes.

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6. Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje*, Macedonia, on August 26,

1910. Her family was of Albanian descent. At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call

of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of

eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish

community of nuns with missions in India. After a few months' training in Dublin she was

sent to India, where on May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun. From 1931 to

1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, but the suffering and

poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls made such a deep impression on her

that in 1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school

and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta.

Although she had no funds, she depended on Divine Providence, and started an open-

air school for slum children. Soon she was joined by voluntary helpers, and financial

support was also forthcoming. This made it possible for her to extend the scope of her

work.

On October 7, 1950, Mother Teresa received permission from the Holy See to start her

own order, "The Missionaries of Charity", whose primary task was to love and care for

those persons nobody was prepared to look after. In 1965 the Society became an

International Religious Family by a decree of Pope Paul VI.

Today the order comprises Active and Contemplative branches of Sisters and Brothers

in many countries. In 1963 both the Contemplative branch of the Sisters and the Active

branch of the Brothers was founded. In 1979 the Contemplative branch of the Brothers

was added, and in 1984 the Priest branch was established.

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The Society of Missionaries has spread all over the world, including the former Soviet

Union and Eastern European countries. They provide effective help to the poorest of the

poor in a number of countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and they undertake

relief work in the wake of natural catastrophes such as floods, epidemics, and famine,

and for refugees. The order also has houses in North America, Europe and Australia,

where they take care of the shut-ins, alcoholics, homeless, and AIDS sufferers.

The Missionaries of Charity throughout the world are aided and assisted by Co-Workers

who became an official International Association on March 29, 1969. By the 1990s there

were over one million Co-Workers in more than 40 countries. Along with the Co-

Workers, the lay Missionaries of Charity try to follow Mother Teresa's spirit and Charism

in their families.

Mother Teresa's work has been recognized and acclaimed throughout the world and

she has received a number of awards and distinctions, including the Pope John XXIII

Peace Prize (1971) and the Nehru Prize for her promotion of international peace and

understanding (1972). She also received the Balzan Prize (1979) and the Templeton

and Magsaysay awards.

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7. Lady Gaga

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta born in March 28, 1986, known by her stage name

Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter, actress, record producer, activist. Born

and raised in New York City, she primarily studied at the Convent of the Sacred Heart

and briefly attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts before withdrawing

to focus on her musical career. She began performing in the rock music scene of

Manhattan's Lower East Side, and was signed with Streamline Records by the end of

2007. During her employment as a songwriter for the record company, her vocal

abilities captured the attention of recording artist Akon, who signed her to his label Kon

Live Distribution.

Lady Gaga came to prominence as a recording artist following the release of her debut

album The Fame (2008), which was a critical and commercial success that topped

charts around the world and included the international number-one singles "Just Dance"

and "Poker Face". After embarking on the The Fame Ball Tour, she followed the album

with The Fame Monster (2009), which spawned the worldwide hit singles "Bad

Romance", "Telephone" and "Alejandro". The Fame Monster's success allowed her to

embark on the eighteen-month long Monster Ball Tour, which later became one of the

highest-grossing concert tours of all time. Her most recent album Born This Way (2011)

topped the charts of most major markets and generated more international chart-

topping singles, including "Born This Way", "Judas" and "The Edge of Glory". Besides

her musical career, she involves herself with humanitarian causes and LGBT activism.

Influenced by David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Madonna, and Queen, Lady Gaga is

recognized for her flamboyant, diverse and outré contributions to the music industry

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through her fashion, performances and music videos. She has sold an estimated 23

million albums and 64 million singles worldwide and her singles are some of the best

selling worldwide. Her achievements include five Grammy Awards and 13 MTV Video

Music Awards. Lady Gaga has consecutively appeared on Billboard magazine's Artists

of the Year (scoring the definitive title in 2010), ranked fourth in VH1's list of 100

Greatest Women in Music, is regularly placed on lists composed by Forbes magazine

and was named one of the most influential people in the world by Time magazine. In

2012, Gaga was ranked at number four on Billboard's list of top moneymakers of 2011,

grossing more than $25 million.[4] In the annual report published by Nielsen Soundscan

in 2011 she was named the 4th best selling digital artist of all time in U.S. with the total

digital sales of 42,078,000.[5] According to The Official Charts Company, she is the 5th

best selling female singles artist of all time in U.K. with sales of 7.329 million

Whatever you think of her music and fashion tastes, there is no denying that she has

become an extraordinary success within a very short space of time and one of the most

successful women in music today. Earning Lady Gaga her spot as number 8 in the list

of top female entrepreneurs.

Born Stefanie Germanotta, Lady Gaga is estimated to be worth nearly $100 million at

the tender age of 25-years-old. The reason for her fortune is that unlike many of her

peers, she actually writes her own music, netting her a huge income in royalties.

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8. Asha Bhosle

Asha Bhosle (born September 8, 1933) is an Indian singer. She is best known as a

playback singer in Hindi cinema, although she has a wider repertoire. Bhosle's career

started in 1943 and has spanned over six decades. She has done playback singing for

over a thousand Bollywood movies. In addition, she has recorded several private

albums and participated in numerous solo concerts in India and abroad. Bhosle is the

sister of playback singer Lata Mangeshkar.

Renowned for her voice range and often credited for her versatility, Bhosle's work

includes film music, pop, ghazals, bhajans, traditional Indian classical music, folk songs

, qawwalis , and Rabindra Sangeets. Apart from Hindi, she has sung in over 20 Indian

and foreign languages. In 2006, Asha Bhosle stated that she had sung over 12,000

songs, a figure repeated by several other sources. The World Records Academy, an

international organization which certifies world records, recognised her as the "Most

Recorded Artist" in the world, in September 2009. In 2011 she was officially

acknowledged by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most recorded artist in

music history. The Government of India honoured her with the Dadasaheb Phalke

Awardin 2000 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2008.

In 1980s and 1990s, Asha went globe-trotting, staging concerts

in Canada, Dubai, UK, U.S. and many other countries. In 1989, during a world tour, she

performed in 13 US cities in 20 days. Immediately after this, she had an already sold-

out concert scheduled in Stockholm, Sweden. Due to the stressful schedule, Asha

suffered a massive attack of colitis, together with fever, cough and weakness. In

Stockholm, a pre-concert crisis meeting was called, attended by Asha's son (and

manager) Anand and the sponsors. It was decided that the orchestra will play many

instrumental tracks, the accompanying singers like Suresh Wadkar will shoulder the

load, and Asha will make a small appearance. But Asha rejected all such proposals,

and sang at the concert with great difficulty, in a not-so-good voice. Her first set of six

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Bollywood songs did not receive any response from the audience, which consisted

mostly of Indian and Pakistani expats. Before the start of the second set of songs, a fan

in the crowd requested her to sing a Marathi song. Asha obliged and sang Naach-

naachuni ati mi damale ("I'm very tired of this endless dancing"). When the song ended,

the auditorium erupted with claps and the encores started. After the concert, Asha was

in bed for a month, recuperating from overexertion. In October 2002, she did a concert

with Sudesh Bhosle and others, in London, for "Help the Aged" to help raise funds for

the elderly in India. In 2007 she toured the US, Canada, and West Indies in a tour called

"The Incredibles". In this tour, she was accompanied by singers Sonu Nigam, Kunal

Ganjawala and Kailash Kher. This tour, originally scheduled for only 12 concerts, went

on to hold more than 20.

n the mid-1980s, Asha sang with Boy George (Bow down mister) and Stephen

Lauscombe. In 1997, she sang a love song with the boy band Code Red, at the age of

64. She also recorded the song The Way you Dream (One Giant Leap, with Michael

Stipe that was used in the English movie, Bulletproof Monk. The song was also

released on the album 1 Giant Leap for 2002.

In 1997, the British band Cornershop paid tribute to Asha with their song Brimful of

Asha, an international hit which was later remixed by Fatboy Slim. In 2001,

the CD single of Nelly Furtado's "I'm Like A Bird" included a "Nellie vs. Asha Remix"

created by Digital Cutup Lounge.

In 2003, British opera pop singer Sarah Brightman sampled her song "Dil Cheez Kya

Hai" on her album Harem. It was used as the intro for her song "You Take My Breath

Away".

In 2005, American string quartet Kronos Quartet re-recorded R D Burman compositions

like Chura Liya, Piya Tu, Mera Kuchh Saamanamong others and got Asha to sing them.

Despite her age, she recorded three to four songs in a day, leaving the quartet

members stupefied. On August 23, 2005, You've stolen my heart - Songs From R D

Burman's Bollywood was released in US. The album was nominated for Grammy

Awards 2006 in the category of "Best Contemporary World Music Album". In the 1990s,

a friend had introduced David Harrington of Kronos Quartet to the song Aaj ki raat.

Harrington was mesmerised, and the song ended up on the album Kronos Caravan.

Also in 2005, The Black Eyed Peas sampled her songs "Ae Naujawan Sab Kuchh

Yahan" (Apradh, 1972) and "Yeh Mera Dil Pyaar Ka Diwana" (Don, 1978) in their hit

single "Don't Phunk with My Heart". In late 2006, Asha collaborated with Australian test

cricket star,Brett Lee. The single, You're the One for Me, debuted at number 4 on the

charts and reached a peak position of number 2.

In 2006 Asha recorded one song for the soundtrack of Pakistani movie Mein Ek Din

Laut Kay Aaaonga. She sang the song, titled Dil Key Taar Bajey, with famous Pakistani

pop singer Jawad Ahmed. It was aired as part of the film's promotional campaign and

became very popular, featuring on top music charts.

Asha Bhosle has won seven Filmfare Best Female Playback Awards of 18

nominations. She won her first two awards in 1967 and 1968. ( Mangeshkar asked not

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to be considered for the award nominations after 1969 to promote new talent ). After

receiving the award in 1979, Bhosle emulated her elder sister and requested that her

name not be considered for the nominations hereafter. Despite this, Bhosle is the most

frequent winner of this award to date, tying with Alka Yagnik. She was later given

a Special Award for Rangeela in 1996, and the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in

2001.

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9. JK Rowling

Joanne Jo Rowling born July 31 , 1965 pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British novelist,

best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series. The Potter books have

gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, and sold more than 400 million

copies. They have become the best-selling book series in history, and been the basis

for a popular series of films, in which Rowling had overall approval on the scripts as well

as maintaining creative control by serving as a producer on the final

installment. Rowling conceived the idea for the series on a train trip from Manchester to

London in 1990.

Rowling has led a "rags to riches" life story, in which she progressed from living on

social security to multi-millionaire status within five years. She is the United Kingdom's

best-selling author since records began, with sales in excess of £238m. As of March

2011, when its latest world billionaires list was published, Forbes estimated Rowling's

net worth to be US$1 billion. The 2008 Sunday Times Rich List estimated Rowling's

fortune at £560 million ($798 million), ranking her as the twelfth richest woman in the

United Kingdom. Forbes ranked Rowling as the forty-eighth most powerful celebrity of

2007, and Time magazine named her as a runner-up for its 2007 Person of the Year,

noting the social, moral, and political inspiration she has given her fans. In October

2010, Rowling was named the "Most Influential Woman in Britain" by leading magazine

editors. She has become a notable philanthropist, supporting such charities as Comic

Relief, One Parent Families, Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great

Britain and Lumos (formerly the Children's High Level Group).

On 27 September 2012, Rowling published her first adult novel The Casual

Vacancy with Little, Brown and Company.

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Forbes has named Rowling as the first person to become a U.S.-dollar billionaire by

writing books, the second-richest female entertainer and the 1,062nd richest person in

the world. When first listed as a billionaire by Forbes in 2004, Rowling disputed the

calculations and said she had plenty of money, but was not a billionaire. In addition, the

2008 Sunday Times Rich List named Rowling the 144th richest person in Britain. In

2001, Rowling purchased a 19th-century estate house, Killiechassie House, on the

banks of the River Tay, near Aberfeldy, in Perth and Kinross, Scotland Rowling also

owns a home in Edinburgh, and a £4.5 million ($7 million) Georgian house

in Kensington, West London, on a street with 24-hour security.

This single and struggling mother wrote a book that bought a generation of video

gamers and tv addicts back to reading books to exercise their imaginations once again.

Another rags to riches story, JK Rowling‘s Harry Potter books have become one of the

best-selling books of all time, she managed to spawn a major feature film series and a

franchise that also incorporates a fully functioning theme park in direct competition

with Disney. Her influence not only affects millions of children around the world, but has

also drawn many adults into her world.

In 1997, Asha became the first Indian singer to be nominated for the Grammy Award,

for Legacy, an album with Ustad Ali Akbar Khan.

She has received seventeen Maharashtra State Awards.

She received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2000 for her outstanding

contribution to Indian cinema.

She holds honorary doctorates from the University of Amravati and University

of Jalgaon in Literature.

She has received The Freddie Mercury Award for Outstanding Achievement in

Arts.

The Birmingham Film Festival paid her a special tribute in November 2002.

She was honoured with the Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India.

She was among top 20 music icons of the past 50 years.

In 2011 the Guinness Book of World Records officially acknowledged Bhosle, at The

Asian Awards, as the most recorded artist in the history of music. She was awarded a

certificate for "the most studio recordings (singles) from Sebastian Coe for recording up

to 11,000 solo, duet and chorus-backed songs and in over 20 Indian languages since

1947". At the event she was also awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award.

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10. Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Kara Sandberg born in August 28, 1969 is an American businesswoman. She

has served as the chief operating officer of Facebook since 2008. In June 2012, she

was also elected to the board of directors by the existing board members, becoming the

first woman to serve on its board. Before Facebook, Sandberg was Vice President of

Global Online Sales and Operations at Google. She also was involved in launching

Google's philanthropic arm Google.org. Before Google, Sandberg served aschief of

staff for the United States Department of the Treasury. In 2012, she was named in Time

100, an annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world assembled by Time

Whilst Facebook was certainly very popular before she came on board in 2008, it was

difficult to see how the site would make an income worthy of its valuation. Not only did

she help meet those expectations that came with such a high valuation of a site yet to

make a real income, she helped massively exceed them.

Since she came on board as Facebook’s number two, it’s user base increased more

than 10 times to roughly 11% of the world’s population, and the business is on course to

post massive profits that are rumoured to cause the company to be valued near the

$100 billion mark, which is almost as much as half the GDP of Ireland. It was her task to

monetize Facebook, and she did this very successfully.

She would have been much higher in the top ten if it wasn’t for the fact that Facebook

was destined to conquer the world on account of it being a very good idea, but

everything she was tasked to do, she did very well and deserve her place amongst the

top ten women entrepreneurs.

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Sheryl Sandberg has been ranked one of the 50 "Most Powerful Women in Business"

by Fortune Magazine since at least 2008. In 2007, she was ranked #29 and was the

youngest woman on the list. In 2008, she was ranked #34. In 2009, Sheryl was #22 on

50 Most Powerful Women in Business by Fortune. In 2010, Sandberg was #16 on 50

Most Powerful Women in Business by Fortune.

In addition, in 2007, she was ranked #19 on 50 "Women to Watch" by The Wall Street

Journal. She was ranked #21 on that list in 2008. In 2011, she was ranked #5 on "the

world's 100 most powerful women" by Forbes.

Sandberg was also named one of the "25 Most Influential People on the Web"

by Business Week.

In 2012, Newsweek and The Daily Beast released their first "Digital Power Index," a list

of the 100 most significant people in the digital world that year (plus 10 additional

"Lifetime Achievement" winners), and Sandberg was ranked #3 in the "Evangelists"

category.

Also in 2012, she was named in Time 100, an annual list of the 100 most influential

people in the world assembled by Time.