NELSON MANDELA

• Led the fight to end apartheid (separation of different races) in South Africa

• Sent to jail for 27 years because he went against the government in an attempt to end segregation and racism

• Was president of South Africa from 1994-1999, the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election

• Nobel Peace Prize winner

ENAS EL-ATRASH

• 5 year old cancer patient

• She is bald because of herchemotherapy treatment

(Remember – multiple piercings only means ‘more than one’)

ANOUSHEH ANSARIANOUSHEH ANSARI Age: 40 Nationality: American/Iranian Birth Place: Mushhad, Iran

She became the world's first female space tourist, the first female Muslim and first Iranian in space.

Paid a reported $20 million to come the world’s 1st female space tourist. Has a Masters degree in Engineering and was the co-founder of two successful IT companies. Anousheh sold one of her companies for $750 million

KENDRA OHAMA• Kendra started playing

wheelchair basketball in 1990

• She represented Canada at the Barcelona Paralympics in 1992 and has helped her team to win three Paralympic gold medals, in 1992, 1996, and 2000, as well as a bronzein Athens in 2004

• When not playing basketball, Ohama is a goldsmith by trade

What surprised you?

KENDRA OHAMAANOUSHEH ANSARIANOUSHEH ANSARI

ENAS EL-ATRASHNELSON MANDELA