My Top 10 Personalities of the last 70 years
1. Nelson Mandela
2. Muhammad Ali
3 Martin Luther King, Jr.
4. Patrice Lumumba
5. Wangari Maathai
6. Steven Paul "Steve" Jobs
7. Linus Benedict Torvalds
8. John Fitzgerald Kennedy / Lyndon B Johnson
9. Sir John Kotalawala
10. Arthur Scargill
Only one Sri-Lankan in the list.
He is one who quit politics very early saying that it is far better to do fox hunting in England than engaged in politics in Sri-Lanka.
He was our third Prime Minister
Arthur Scargill of course tried his best against odds in for UK miners and was the only Labour activist of some note.
Failed to make the mark above the top above.
Che Guerra
Fidel Castro
Sukarno of Indonesia,
Jawaharlal Nehru of India,
Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia,
Gamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt
Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana.
