For more see:
Massimo Bottura - Stealing Tortellini
Tim Berners-Lee - Internet Revolution
Friedrich Hayek - Liberty
Alexander Fleming - Accidentally making the most important discovery of the millennium
Jim Simmons - Who says math does not pay
Lee Kuan Yew - Building a Nation
Aretha Franklin - Respect!
Nicholas Winton - the British Schindler
Christopher Hitchens - The best Debate
Kurt Godel - The limits of logic (and relativity...)
Filippo Brunelleschi - Santa Maria del Fiore (Florence) Cupola
Stanislav Petrov - Avoiding WW3
Linus Torvalds - Linux
Dan Larimer on EOS
From @belgarath