Inspired by the famous people thread in the forum, add your link to a profile page of celebrities here by country of origin. Please add a category, title and short description to each celebrity. That will make it easier to re-organise should the list become too long. I suggest to qualify as a celebrity, there should be a reference to an article in wikipedia.

Categories:

• Art's & Entertainment - Musicians, composers, dancers, writers, painters, sculptors (please add)
• Politics - Presidents, freedom fighters, dictators (please add)
• Academia - Philosophers, scientists, (please add)
• Athlete - Baseball players, soccer players, golfers, runners, swimmers. Any sports celebrity.
• (please add)

(We should keep the categories to a minimum, I'll say max 10 to avoid making it too cumbersome)

North America

US

• Mark Twain Art's & Entertainment: Author. Real name Samuel Langhorne Clemens. American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer - most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [1]

• George W. Bush Politics: the forty-third and current President of the United States. [2]

Canada

(please add)

Europe

• Charlemagne Politics: aka Charles the Great) (747 – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768 to his death. [3]

UK

• William The Conqueror Politics: William I of England (1027 – 1087), Duke of Normandy from 1035 and King of England from 1066 to his death. [4]

Asia

India

• Mahatma Ghandi Politics: (1869 – 1948). A major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement.

Africa

South Africa

• Nelson Mandela, aka Morgan Freeman ;-)