From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 29/Jan/2018

Hi Steemians,

This is an effort to provide some information on Five selected famous personalities born on this day.

Courtesy of this information goes to onthisday.com, famousbirthdays.com and wikipedia.org and image source is mentioned under "Source" just below each image.

1. Oprah Winfrey

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Oprah Winfrey is an American talk show host, media proprietor along with actress and producer who is best known for her talk show "The Oprah Winfrey Show", which is one of the highest rated television program.

Oprah is regarded as "Queen of All Media" and first multi billionaire black person from North America.

She also holds the distinction of richest African-American.

Oprah is known for her philanthropic and charitable works, she donated $10 million for the Hurricane Katrina.

She has given more than $400 million for educational causes, scholarships.

She has been an awardee of Presidential Medal of Freedom, 18 daytime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, 2 time Primetime Emmy Award and a Tony Award.

She also won an Academy Award for Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.

In 2014 itself, her networth was estimated at 2.9 billion dollars.

2. William McKinley

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William McKinley was the 25^th President of America from 1897 until he got assassinated in 1901.

He is regarded as the last president who had served in the American civil war.

He served as Governor of Ohio and got a Republican nomination for 1896 Presidential election and won it comfortably.

He is remembered for the changes related to Gold Standard Act, The Tariff Act of 1890.

3. Abdus Salam

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Abdus Salam was a Pakistani theoretical physicist who is a co-winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 along with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for the work related to electroweak unification theory.

He is regarded as the first Pakistani and also the first Muslim to receive a Nobel Prize in science and also the second person to win a Nobel Prize in any category.

He is considered as founder and scientific father of mathematical and theoretical physics in Pakistan.

He was made a Fellow of Royal Society of London in 1959.

Besides Nobel Prize, Salam was a winner of Sitara-e-Pakistan Award in 1959, Atoms for Peace Award in 1968, Nishan-e-Imtiaz Award(for outstanding performance in Scientific projects in Pakistan) in 1979, Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1989.

4. Heather Graham

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Heather Graham is an American actress who started her film acting career in 1988 with a role in movie License to Drive.

Besides acting, Heather also appears on cover of magazines.

She was ranked 40^th in FHM's list of "100 Most sexiest women in the world" in 2000.

Some of her famous movies include Twins, I Love You to Death, The Ballad of Little Jo, Killing Me Softly, Blessed, Broken, The Hangover and it's sequels.

5. Andy Roberts

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Andy Roberts is a West Indian former cricketer who is regarded as part of the quartet of fearsome fast bowlers of 1970's and 80's along with Micahel Holding, Joel Garner and Collin Croft.

He took 202 wickets in 47 tests he played. He has been honoured by Antiguan Barbudan government in 2014 with appointment as Knight Commander of the order of the Nation.

Besides playing for West Indies, Roberts also played for county teams Hampshire County Cricket Club and Leicestershire County Cricket Club.

He has been an inductee into United States Cricket Hall of Fame.