NET  WORTH- $ 46 MILLION

PROFESSION-ACTOR,MODEL,DIRECTOR AND PHILANTHROPIST

Paul Wesley( Pawl Tomasz Wasilewski in Polish) is a heart throbbing  Polish-American actor. He is best known for his role the CW series The Vampire Diaries as the hot Salvatore brother ‘Stefan Salvatore’. Paul recently bagged the No.1 spot on People With Money Magazine Top ten highest paid actors for 2014.

CHILDHOOD

Paul was born in July 23,1982 at New Brunswick,New Jersey in U.S. He grew up in Marlboro,New Jersey. He is English as well as a Polish as until 16 he has spent four months every year in Poland. Paul’s passion was playing hockey until he was about 14 years old and was pushed into performing.

Wesley attended Christian Brothers Academy in Lincroft, New Jersey and Marlboro High School.He graduated from Lakewood Prep School in 2000.

He enrolled in Rutgers University but left after one semester with his parents’ support when more roles were offered to him and he realized he could make a career out of acting.

EARLY DAWN OF ACTING CAREER

Paul became interested in acting when enrolled in a summer arts program in third grade .During Wesley’s junior year in High School he was cast as Max Nickerson in the soap opera Guiding Light. As he was having problem in his acting schedule he was transferred from Marlboro high School to Lakewood Prep School in Howell New Jersey.

ADVENT OF FAME

His debut on television was with the role of Sean McKinnon in Around World in 1999.In 2005, He changed his surname from Wasilewski to Wesley as he said it was hard to pronounce Wasilewski. He has done a number of shows namely Guiding Light(1999-2001),Law & Order(2000 and 2002),Shot in Heart(2001),Wolf Lake(2001),Smallville & The O.C. in 2003,Simple Rules(2003).

In 2005 and 2006 he did C.S.I:Miami and C.S.I:New York.In 2007,he  did Fallen.In 2008 and 2009 in The Russell Girl and Amy Wives.

He played the role of Aaron Corbett in the ABC family drama Fallen. He also worked in The Russell Girl.

In 2009, He landed in the role of Stefan Salvatore For the CW drama series The Vampire Diaries which is the onscreen depiction of the hit novel series of the same title.

He is mainly recognized by this role. He plays a younger brother of Damon Salvatore portrayed by  Ian Somhalder and the first love interest of Elena Gilbert played onscreen by Nina Dobrev. He played the role of Silas in Season 4 and 5 and also did the role of Stefan’s doppelganger Tom Avery.

He Did movies like The Last Run in 2004.In 2005, he worked in Roll Bounce and Cloud 9.In 2006 he worked in two movies Peaceful Warrior and Lenexa,1 Mile. In 2008, he did Killer Movie.In 2010, he worked in Beneath The Blue and in 2013 he did The Baytown Outlaws.

He directed an episode of The Vampire Diaries of season 5 named ‘ Resisent Evil’.

MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE

In 2007,Wesley met actress Torrey DeVitto in the sets of Killer Movie in which they acted together and then they started dating each other. She worked alongside him in The Vampire Diaries as Meredith Fell, a doctor in Mystic Fall in the third season of the series.

In April 2011, they secretly exchanged the vows in the private ceremony in New York,U.S. In July 2013, it was reported that they had filed for divorce after two years of marriage and they finally divorced each other.

Paul is currently dating Phoebe Tonkin. They started dating in early 2014.Phoebe plays the role of Hayley in The Originals.

PHILANTHROPY

Wesley supports two charities namely Elton John Aids Foundation and The Humane Society.

He supports three causes health,AIDS/HIV and heart.

ASSESTS

HOUSE-

He lives about nine months when he is shooting The Vampire Diaries in Atlanta,Georgia and also has a spectular home in Los Angeles.But currently he is searching for a home in New York.

AWARDS AND ACCOLADES

• He has won Young Hollywood Awards in 2010.
• In 2010 he won Teen Choice Award in the category Breakout Star Male.
• In 2011 he won Teen Choice award again for Actor Fantasy.
• In 2013, He was nominated for People’s Choice Awards for Favorite T.V. dramatic actor.
• He was named as the No.1 television highest paid actor of 2014 by the People with Money Magazine,his competitor was $20 Million behind in the race.

FUN FACTS

• Paul is best friends with his costar and on-screen brother, Ian Somerhalder.
• Paul’s nickname is P-Dub. His fans are known as PDubbers.
• Paul has natural fangs.
• Paul was the one who recommended Joseph Morgan for playing Klaus to the producers.
• Paul would have been an investigative journalist if he didn’t go into acting.
• Paul loves traveling.
• Paul originally auditioned for the role of  Damon Salvatore potrayed by Ian Somerhalder, but instead was given the role of Stefan.

QUOTES

• “Every role presents a new opportunity for me to do something different and to explore something different.”
• On being compared to Twilight’s Robert Pattinson: “It makes me so uncomfortable. Nine of ten girls in this room would throw me under a bus to get to Edward Cullen.”
• I don’t know anything about comic books. I’ve never seen a Star Wars in my life.”
• On changing his professional name to Wesley: “Wasilewski was too hard to pronounce! I asked my family’s permission to change it, and it’s really helped my career.”
• I don’t have a television so I don’t watch T.V.

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PROFESSION-Film Producer,Actor,Model and Philanthropist.

Katherine Heigl is an American actor and producer, best known for her role as a doctor in sitcom Grey’s Anatomy and movies such as The Ugly Truth,27 dresses and Life as we know it.She was the cover model of Vanity Fair and Cosmopolitan.She is married to Josh Kelley.

CHILDHOOD

Katherine Marie Heigl was born on November 24,1978 at West End,Washington D.C. in U.S.A.She moved to Virginia,Denver and finally settled down in Connecticut with her family.She attended New Caanan High School in the Connecticut. Heigl dropped out of  High School after her sophomore year to pursue her career in Hollywood.

DAWN OF MODELLING CAREER

Heigl’s life took a turn when she was 9, after an aunt sent pictures of her to modeling agencies. She signed with the international agency Welhelmina Models as child model.

She debuted with a magazine advertisement. She appeared in her first feature film, That Night, at age 11, and took her first lead role at age 14 in 1994′s My Father the Hero. In 1994, she appeared on the cover of Seventeen Magazine.

Despite an increased focus on acting, she still modeled extensively, appearing regularly in magazines.In the same year  Heigl’s parents divorced and her mother was diagnosed with cancer. After her mother’s successful recovery, Heigl and her mother moved to Los Angeles to try to break into Hollywood.

ADVENT OF FAME

In 1996, Katherine Heigl was cast as Isabel, an alien human hybrid in the scince fiction drama Rosewell,which eventually ran for just three seasons.She also appeared on the magazines namely TV Guide,Teen,Life and FHM as she continued her modelling career along with acting career.

After Roswell was canceled in 2002, Heigl appeared in several made-for-TV movies, including a prequel to Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion and two Lifetime movies based on the Janet Oke novels Love’s Enduring Promise and  Love Comes Softly.

She was also starred in the movies like 100 girls and Valentine.

ACCLAIMATION OF BEING ACTOR

Grey’s Anatomy premiered in March 2005 and immediately became a smash hit, elevating Heigl and her co-stars’ profiles in Hollywood. In Grey’s Anatomy she played a role of a medical intern Dr.Isobel “Lzzie” Stevens.Following the same year she was also cast in the movie Side Effects. With her mother, she has been an activist for the past several years, speaking on behalf of donor organizations.

After the release of the movie Knocked Out her fees  hiked as the movie did a good business and her role was critically praised.On July 2009,The Ugly Truth was released in which she worked with Ashton Kutcher.In the same year Life as we know it in which she worked with Josh Duhamel.Heigl left Grey’s Anatomy in 2010.

Abishag Productions was formed in 2007 by Katherine and Nancy Heigl.In 2011, she starred in romantic comedy New Year’s Eve alongside Jon Bon Jovi. Recently it was reported that Heigl would return to television in an NBC drama series named” State of Affairs” about a CIA attache.

MARRIAGE AND MOTHER

In June 2006, Heigl became engaged to singer Josh Kelley, whom she had met a year earlier on the set of his music video for Only You.They exchanged vows on December 23,2007 in Park Utah. In September 2009, the couple adopted a daughter, Nancy Leigh “Naleigh” Kelley. Naleigh  was born with a heart defect and underwent open heart surgery before leaving Korea. In April 2012, Kelley and Heigl adopted a second daughter, Adalaide Marie Hope Kelley.

CONTROVERSY

Heigl caught more heavy flak in late 2007 for statements that she made during an interview with Vanity Fair magazine. During the interview, she called Grey’s Anatomy storyline at the time “a ratings ploy” and professed her strong opposition to the portrayals of women in Knocked Up. Soon after the interview was published, Heigl was vilified by the press, called ungrateful, pretentious and the like by many critics. This criticism continued after Heigl withdrew herself from Emmy consideration in June 2008.

PHILANTHROPY

Heigl has worked with Best Friends Animal Society.The Jason Debus Heigl Foundation (JDHF) was founded by Nancy and Katherine Heigl to increase awareness of inhumane animal treatment and support efforts for rescue, medical care, training and placement needs in the Greater Los Angeles area.Heigl and her mother, Nancy, then started Heigl’s Hounds of Hope which operates as part of the Jason Debus Heigl Foundation.

On behalf of PETA, she signed a letter to members of the Utah legislature, urging them to reject a law that would make undercover filming in factory farms a criminal offense.She also supports AIDS healthcare foundation and Chrysalis.

ASSETS-

MANSION

Katherine Heigl and her husband Josh Kelley purchased the lavish traditional looking mansion in September 2007 for $2.55 million in Los Feliz,California.It is 3,690 sq.feet.

CARS

Heigl owns a white Audi Q5 and a burgundy colored Range Rover SUV.

BRANDS

Katherine Heigl is the owner of several brands

• Valentino Rock Stud Leather Shoulder bag.
• Christian Louboutin Lola Nappa Pumps
• J Brands Maria High Rise Skinny Jeans.
• Maria Lucia Hohan Rhonda Gown.

AWARDS AND ACCOLADES

Heigl has won Emmy Awards for Oustanding Supporting in Drama Series for Grey’s Anatomy in 2007.She also did won People’s Choice Awards for Favourite TV Drama Actress in 2010 and Favourite Female TV Star in 2008.She also bagged Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding performance by an Ensemble in Drama Series for Grey’s Anatomy in 2006.

She has been nominated for Golden Globe Awards for Best performance by an actress in a Supporting Role for Grey’s Anatomy both in 2006 and 2007.She was also nominated for MTV Movie Awards in the category of Best Performance for Knocked Up in 2008.She was nominated for Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding performance by an Ensemble in Drama Series for Grey’s Anatomy in 2005 as well as 2007.

Heigl appeared in the FHM and Maxim calendars, FHM‘s annual “100 Sexiest Women in the World”.In May 2006, Maxim awarded her #12 on their annual Hot 100List as well as voted the 19th “Sexiest Woman in the World” by readers of FHM magazine. Heigl was announced the Most Desirable Woman of 2008, according to AskMen.com Ranked #72 in Stuff magazine’s “102 Sexiest Women In The World” (2002). Ranked as #55 in FHM’s “100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005″  special supplement. (2005). She was named one of Entertainment Weekly’s Top 25 Entertainers Of The Year (2007).

QUOTES

• My mother says she thinks I wouldn’t have appreciated success the same way if it had come faster or more easily. Now it’s a much bigger reward.
• I pride myself on being kind. But that’s not to say there aren’t moments when I’m a diva. Everybody has bad moments.
• I love changing my look. I would love, love, love to cut all my hair off into a really short, punky haircut.

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PROFESSION-NOVELIST,SCREENWRITER,PRODUCER AND PHILANTHROPIST

Nicholas Sparks is one of the famous  American novelist. He is the best-selling author with over 85 million copies of his novels such as  The Notebook, A Walk To Remember, Dear John ,The Lucky One ,Message in a Bottle and many more being sold worldwide. His novels include twelve #1 New York Times bestsellers, and all his books, including Three Weeks with My Brother, the memoir he wrote with his brother, Micah, have been New York Times and international bestsellers, and were translated into more than fifty languages.

CHILDHOOD

Nicholas Charles Sparks was born on December 31, 1965, in Omaha, Nebraska,U.S.His father Patrick Michael Sparks was a professor of business and his mother Jill Sparks was a homemaker and optometrist’s assistant, He used to live with his two siblings and parents in Minnesota, Los Angeles, and Grand Island, Nebraska, finally settling in Fair Oaks, California at the age of eight.

EDUCATION

He went to prep school in Fair Oaks,California and then graduated in 1984 from Bella Vista High School as valedictorian. He enrolled at the University of Notre Dame, having received a full track and field scholarship. After breaking the Notre Dame school record as part of a relay team in 1985 as a freshman (a record which still stands), he was injured and spent the summer recovering. He majored in Business Finance and graduated with high honors in 1988.

MARRIAGE

He met Catherine Cote in the same year he graduated during spring break. Cote is a native of New Hampshire. They married on July 22, 1989 and moved to New Bern, North Carolina. In the wake of these two life-changing events, Nicholas and Catherine moved to Sacramento, California. He worked a variety of jobs over the next three years, including real estate appraisal, waiting tables, selling dental products by phone, and started his own small manufacturing business which struggled from the beginning. He began selling pharmaceuticals and moved from Sacramento, California to North Carolina in 1992.

CHRONOLOGY OF NOVELS

• In 1985 and 1989 he wrote The Passing and The Royal Murders respectively which remained unpublished.
• The Notebook was published in October 1996 and made the New York Times best-seller list in its first week of release.
•  In 1998, Message in a Bottle was published which explores the love after grief and is  set in the mid-late 1990s, then-contemporary Wilmington, North Carolina.
• A Walk to Remember was released in October 1999. It is a story of two teenagers who fall in love with each other despite the disparity of their personalities.
• In 2000, The Rescue was published.
• In 2001, A Bend in the Road was released worldwide.
• In 2002, Night in Rodanthe hit the bookstores.Its story follows the purely intense and close romance of a divorced mother and a divorced father and surgeon. The novel’s two main protagonists meet in an inn in Rodanthe and fall strongly in love.
• In 2003, The Guardian and The Wedding hit the bookstores.
• In 2004, Three Weeks with my Brother was published.
• In 2005, True Believer and At first sight was released worldwide.
• In 2006, Dear John was published. The story is about a romantic couple who fall in love over one summer. They are separated during the man’s military service and later on his return finds her being married to another man.
• In 2007 The Choice hit the bookstores worldwide.
• In 2008,The Lucky One was released.
• In 2009 The Last Song was released. The story revolves around the summer of Ronnie Miller’s seventeenth year, during which she is sent to stay with her estranged father. Through their shared love of music, the duo reconnects.
• In 2010 Safe Haven was published.
• In 2011 Best of Me hit the bookstores.
• In 2013 The Longest Ride was released worldwide.

MOVIE DEPICTIONS

Following is the list of films released which are actually the onscreen depictions of novels-

• Message in a Bottle (February  1999)
• A Walk to Remember (January  2002)
• The Notebook (June  2004)
• Nights in Rodanthe (September  2008)
• Dear John (February  2010)
• The Last Song (March  2010)
• The Lucky One (April  2012)
• Safe Haven (February  2013)

Following are the movies yet to be released-

• The Best of Me (October  2014)
• The Longest Ride (February 2015)

ASSETS

MANSION-

Nicholas Sparks owns a 24,000-square-foot, waterfront mansion on the banks of New Bern, North Carolina.

PHILNTHROPY

Sparks has donated a track to New Bern High School and contributes to local and national charities. Nicholas Sparks donated $1.5 MILLION for a new, all-weather tartan track, to New Bern High School. He also donates his time to help coach the New Bern High School track team and a local club track team as a volunteer head coach. He contributes to the Creative Writing Program (MFA) at the University of Notre Dame by funding scholarships, internships and annual fellowships. In 2008, Entertainment Weekly reported that Sparks and his wife had donated “close to $10 million” to start a Christian, international, college-prep private school, The Epiphany School of Global Studies.

QUOTES

• “Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn’t make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.”
• “My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.”
• “The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it…”
• “Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.”
• “How far would you go to keep the hope of love alive?”

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PROFESSION-Band Artist and Philanthropists.

One direction is an English-Irish band which is based UnitedKingdom.It comprises five members namely Zayn Malik,Harry Styles,Liam Payne,Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson.They bagged third position in the seventh season of The X factor(Britian) in 2010.

MEMBERS

HARRY STYLES-

Harry Edward Styles was born on  February 1, 1994 in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England. He attended Holmes Chapel Comphrensive School.Before being the member of  One Direction he used to sing with his band Whit Eskimos at Holmes Chapel in Cheshire where he was the lead singer.He participated in seventh season of The X factor in 2010 where he was being eliminated as the solo singer. He suggested the name of the band as ‘One Direction’.

ZAYN MALIK-

Zayn Malik(Zain Javaad Malik) was born on January 12,1993 at Bradford in England to a family of English-Pakistan descent.He grew up in West Bowling and went to Lower Fields Primary School and Tong High School in Bradford. As a teenager he took performing arts courses and appeared in school productions. He auditioned for seventh season of The X factor but was rejected as solo singer. In August 2013, Mali got engaged to Perrier Edwards, a singer with the group Little Mix after dating for about two years.

LIAM PAYNE-

Liam James Payne was born on August 29, 1993 in Wolver Hampton, England. Payne attended St. Peter’s Collegiate School in Wolverhampton.He was interested in both music and athletics during his teenager. He was a member of the Wolver Hampton & Bilston Athletics Club. Following his graduation from St. Peter’s, he enrolled in the City of Wolver Hampton College to study music technology.He auditioned for The X factor in 2008 when he was just 14 but couldn’t make it so he auditioned again in 2010 and was later eliminated as a solo singer.

NIALL HORAN-

Niall James Horan was born on September 13,1993 in Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland.He attended St. Kenny National School, where he performed in school plays and sang in the school choir. He attended secondary school at Coláiste Mhuire (Mary’s College), also in Mullingar. As a teenager he performed at the Mullingar Arts Centre and at The Academy in Dublin.He auditioned for The X factor in 2010 . He moved up through several rounds of preliminary auditions but was eliminated as a solo singer after semifinals.

LOUIS TOMLINSON-

Louis William Tomlinson was born on December 24,1991 in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England.He is a song-writer,singer,actor and football player. In Doncaster, Tomlinson attended The Hayfield School; when he failed to graduate, he completed his studies at Hall Cross Academy. At Hall Cross he performed in several school productions, including the musical Grease. Outside school, he worked part-time jobs in retail and at the Doncaster Rovers Football Club.He auditioned for The X factor in 2009 but was turned down.He again auditioned in seventh season of The X factor in 2010 but was eliminated as a solo singer before the final round.

CHRONOLOGY OF ONE DIRECTION

In 2010.all of them auditioned for The X factor in 2010 and were rejected as solo singers but later on the suggestion of Simon Cowell and Nicole Scherzinger the five formed the band together named by Harry Styles as ‘One Direction’ at Wembley Arena in London. Subsequently, the group got together for two weeks to get to know each other and to practice. One Direction finished in third place and immediately after the final, their song “Forever Young”, which would have been released if they had won The X Factor, was leaked onto the internet. Shortly afterwards it was confirmed that One Direction had been signed by Cowell. In 2011,their debut album Up All Night was released in United Kingdom and was later released worldwide in 2012.At the end of the year they started their first UK concert  tour ‘Up All Night’ tour which of huge success.   In 2012, One Direction’s second studio album, Take Me Home, was released in November. Up All Night and Take Me Home were the number three and number four best-selling albums of 2012 globally, each album selling over 5 million units worldwide.One Direction performed “Little Things” at the 2012 Royal Variety Performance in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II. They performed “What Makes You Beautiful” at the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony in London. In 2013, One Direction embarked on their second concert tour in February 2013, the Take Me Home Tour.They performed 134 shows in the tour.One Direction: This Is Us, a 3D documentary and concert movie about the group directed by Morgan Spurlock and produced by Simon Cowell, was released  on 30 August 2013. Midnight Memories was released globally on 25 November 2013. In 2014,One Direction are expected to go for their first stadium tour, the Where We Are Tour, which is set to commence in April.

AWARDS AND HONORS

One Direction has won two BRIT Awards—winning their first with “What Makes You Beautiful” for Best British Single at the 2012 BRIT Awards, three NME awards, two Kids’ Choice Awards, and four MTV Video Music Awards. One Direction won all nine awards they were nominated for at the 2012 Teen Choice Awards.One Direction also won two American Music Awards out of their two nominations.

PHILANTHROPY

In 2011, the band performed on the Children in Need 2011 broadcast.In 2012 they extended involvement with Children in Need and performed Live While We’re Young. In September 2012, Niall Horan organized an event to raise money for Irish Autism Action and another charity called and Temporary Emergency Accommodation Mullingar based in Mullingar. In February 2013, One Direction released “One Way or Another (Teenage Kicks)”, as the 2013 Comic Relief single. As part of their involvement with the UK charity, One Direction traveled to Ghana to volunteer at a children’s hospital, visit a school and make donations. In 2013, band members Liam Payne and Harry Styles partnered with Trekstock, a leading cancer charity in order to help raise money for cancer research. One Direction were named the most charitable in 2013 behind Taylor Swift by social change organization DoSomething.org.

ASSETS

CARS-

Harry Styles likes sports cars and drives white vintage,range rover and Ferrari.Zayn Malik drives Bentley Continental GT.Louis has range rover,porche and mini one D worth $21,515 and Liam owns Audi TT worth $ 61,403.Niall rides ranger rover worth $70,000.

MANSIONS-

Harry Styles has bought a mansion in Beverly Hills in L.A. for  whooping price of $ 4 million.Louis Tomlinson lives in a mansion in Hertfordshire.Liam Payne lives in £2 million luxury flat in central London.Zayn Malik lives in a mansion in Bradford,London.Niall Horan has bought a mansion in LA at a price of $1.5 million.

QUOTES

• Simon cowell on One Direction it “took him 10 minutes to put them together as a group and were confident, fun, like a gang of friends, and kind of fearless as well.”

• “I wake up so many mornings feeling so lucky and so grateful to be where we are.” –Harry Styles
• “I like to use the term ‘misunderstood.’ But I am a bit of a bad boy. I have tattoos and I mess around. That’s part of my image, so it’s cool.” –Zayn Malik
• ·         “I do enjoy having a laugh and joke, but when it comes to the band, it’s really important to me for us to be portrayed exactly as we want to be portrayed as a band.” –Louis Tomlinson

• We’re five lads in a band. Boy bands aren’t all about dancing and being structured and wearing the same clothes.” –Liam Payne

• “Every now and then you have like a realization moment where you get goosebumps and think, ‘I am literally the luckiest person in the world.”- Niall Horan

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Dan Brown is best known for his bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code which released in 2003. He is an American author whose works are based on thriller action.His novels consist of the themes of cryptography,keys,codes,symbols,ambigrams and conspiracy theories etc.With just seven books in stores, he has sold 200 million copies which makes him one of the highest selling author of all times. The Robert Langdon series is currently the seventh highest selling series of all time.He was named by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 influential people in the world in 2005.

CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION

Daniel Brown was born on June,22 1964 in Exeter,New Hampshire U.S. He was brought up in the same town.He studied in Phillips Exeter Academy and graduated from there too. His father Richard G. Brown was a Mathematics teacher in the same academy until 1997.
Both of his parents were singers and musicians.

Since his childhood, Brown had keen interest in ciphers,clues and codes.He together with his siblings used to solve anagrams and puzzles to hunt for the gifts on special occasions.
He grew up surrounded by paradoxical philosophies of science and religion.These themes eventually formed the backdrop of his novels.After graduating from Phillips Exeter, Brown attended Amherst College, where he was a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity.He played Squash,singer in Glee Club. He enrolled in the art history course at University of Seville in 1985.

SINGER AND SONG-WRITER

After graduation he tried his hands in the music industry.He self-produced a children cassette SynthAnimals.He later produced his own recode label Dalliance.He spent several years attempting to establish himself as a singer-songwriter and pianist with only marginal success.

These endeavors however lead him to live in Los Angeles where he taught Spanish at Beverly Hills Preparatory School to supplement his income and where he also met Blythe Newlon.This lady,twelve years his senior,was then employed as Artistic Director of the National Academy of Songwriters.As their relationship developed Blythe used her influence in attempts to further Dan Brown’s music career.

In 1993 he decided to return to the New Hampshire and secured a teaching job in English at Phillips Exeter Academy, Blythe accompanied him.They married in 1997, at Pea Porridge Pond, near Conway, New Hampshire . In 1994 Brown released a CD titled Angels & Demons. Its artwork was the same ambigram by artist John Langdon which he later used for the novel Angels and Demons.

CHRONOLOGY OF NOVELS

In 1993,Brown read Sidney Sheldon’s novel ‘The Doomsday Conspiracy’ during holiday in Tahiti which inspired him to become writer of thrillers. In 1995 Brown and Blythe wrote under the pseudonym Danielle Brown ‘187 Men to Avoid : A guide for the romantically frustrated woman’.
In 1998, Digital Fortess was published.Set within the clandestine National Security Agencies,the novel explores the fine line between civilian privacy and national security.
In 2000,Angels and Demons was released,the first one to feature Harvard symbology expert Robert Langdon. The fast-paced thriller follows Langdon’s attempts to protect the Vatican from the Illuminati, a secret society formed during the Renaissance that opposed the Roman Catholic Church. Although the novel received positive reviews, it failed to catch on with readers.
In 2001. Deception point was released centered on issues of morality,politics,national security and classified technology.
In 2003, Brown returned to Langdon with The Da Vinci Code, a thriller that centres on art history, Christianity’s origins, and arcane theories.
In 2009,The Lost Symbol was released which featured Freemasons.
In 2013, Inferno was published, which saw Langdon following clues related to Dante’s poem The Divine Comedy in an efforts to stop release of a plague.

MOVIE DEPICTIONS

In 2006, A movie ‘The Da Vinci Code’ was released by Columbia Pictures which was based on Brown’s novel. The movie starred Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon,it was directed by Ron Howard.
In May 2009, the next film ‘Angels & Demons’ was released with Tom Hanks and Ron Howard returning as an actor and director respectively.
Filmmakers are currently working on the movie adaption of ‘The Lost Symbol’.

He is on twitter with the username @AuthorDanBrown and has 96.1K followers.
He is on facebook with his own name.

CONTROVERSIES

In 2005, a lawsuit was filed by an author Lewis Perdue for similarities between The Da Vinci Code and his novels ‘The Da Vinci Legacy’ and ‘Daughter of God’.
In April 2006 Brown won a case of copyright case filed against him by the authors Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh for stealing the ideas from their work ‘Holy Blood Holy Grail’ for his The Da Vinci Code.

ASSETS

MANSION-

Brown lives with his wife in a mansion of whooping price $10 million in New Hampshire.He bought this house after the great success of The Da Vinci Code.His house features secret passageways, hidden alcoves, and a library designed to hold a copy of each of his titles which have been published in 52 languages.

PHILNTHROPY

Dan Brown and his siblings donated $2.2 million to the Phillips Exeter Academy in 2004 establishing the “Richard G. Brown Technology Endowment”, to help “provide computers and high-tech equipment for students in need” to honor their father, who had taught there for 35 years.
Brown along with his wife supports New Hampshire Charitable Foundation.
In April 2011, Brown and his wife together established Dan ’86 and Blythe scholarship fund so as to provide financial support to the students.

QUOTES

• Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods & Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.
• I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work.
• That is the definition of faith – acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
• “Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.”
• “Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”
• “Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”

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PROFESSION-Duchess of Cambridge,Accessories buyer and   Philanthropist

Catherine Elizabeth Middleton known as Catherine,Duchess of Cambridge is the spouse of Prince William; Duke of Cambridge.She is a member of British Royal Family. Kate and Prince William met while both were attending the University of St. Andrews. They were engaged in 2010 and married in April 2011.She is a native of Berkshire,England.

CHILDHOOD

Catherine Elizabeth Middleton was born at Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading on 09 January 1982.She has two siblings James and Philippa better known as Pippa Middleton. In 1987, her parents Carole and Michael Middleton founded a private venture Party Pieces apparently a mail order company that sells party supplies and decorations. Its estimated worth is $ 50 million.

EDUCATION

She went to St. Andrews Prep School and Down House. She attended Marlborough College in Wiltshire where she studied chemistry,biology and art at A- level  and left it in July 2000.In 2001 she enrolled at University of St Andrews in Fife, Scotland and graduated MA (2:1 Hons) in the History of Art in 2005.

JOB

In November 2006, Middleton was finally appointed  as an assistant accessories buyer in the British clothing chain Jigsaw in London. But later on it was reported that she left the company in order to study portrait photography.

In 2010, it was revealed that Middleton had been working on plans to start a new bakery business with her brother, James, who ran The Cake Kit Company. The business had the goal of encouraging kids to cook and making it easier to bake party cakes.But she didn’t do so due to some personal problem.

RELATIONSHIP WITH PRINCE WILLIAM OF WALES

In 2001, Middleton became a student at the University of St Andrews in Fife, Scotland.While in her first year at the university, Middleton was placed in the dormitory St. Salvators Hall—the same building as then Prince William of Wales. The couple began dating in the early 2002 and kept it  secret.But in 2004, Kate was caught by paparazzi while on a royal family ski trip. In February 2006, it was announced that Middleton would receive her own 24-hour security detail from the Royalty and Diplomatic Protection Department.

BREAKUP AND PATCH UP

In April 2007 Prince William and Middleton broke up. The couple decided to break up during a holiday in the Swiss.

After sometime the couple were  seen together  on a number of occasions and news sources stated that they had “rekindled their relationship”.They further carried on together happily.

FROM COMMONER TO ROYAL

On November 16, 2010, Middleton and Prince William announced their engagement to the pulic. The prince proposed during a vacation to the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya, he presented Kate the engagement ring that had belonged to his late mother Diana,Princess of Wales.

Shortly before the wedding, Queen Elizabeth conferred Kate with the title of Catherine, Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge. They tied the knot in Westminister Abbey on April 29,2011. It is marked as St. Catherine’s Day with the day declared a national holiday in the United Kingdom.

ROYAL MOTHER

On December 3,2012 St. James Palace officially announced that Kate Middleton was pregnant as on the same day of the announcement, Middleton with Prince William  was hospitalized at King Edward VII hospital in London with acute morning sickness. On 14 January 2013, St James’s Palace announced that the child was due to be born in July 2013.

The Duchess was admitted to St Mary’s Hospital in London in the early stages of labour on  22 July 2013, and gave birth to a baby boy. On 24 July 2013, Kensington Palace announced that the baby would be named George Alexander Louis.

ASSETS

PALACE-

Kate Middleton lives in Kensington Palace which is located in Kensington Garden,London,England

CARS-

Middleton  owns  Audi A3 which is metallic black in color. She reached the venue of her royal wedding with Prince William accompanied by her father in a metallic black Rolls-Royce Phantom VI.Kate owns a black Ranger Rover sports car.

BLUE BLOOD DUTIES- PATRONAGES AND PHILANTHROPY

In March 2011, William and Catherine set up a gift fund held by The Foundation of Prince William and Prince Harry to allow well-wishers who want to give them a wedding gift to donate money to charities they care about instead.On 29 September 2011, the Duchess officially became a patron of The Foundation of Prince William and Prince Harry.

In June 2012,The Foundation of Prince William and Prince Harry was renamed The Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry, to reflect Catherine’s contribution to the charity. In November 2011, April 2012, and November 2012, she and the Duke attended the biannual Princes’ Charities Forum, which unites the various charitable interests of the two princes.

The Duchess support charities The Art Room, National Portrait Gallery, London East Anglia’s Children’s Hospice, Action on Addiction, Place2be, Natural History Museum and Sportsaid.

Middleton supports a PeacePlayers International charity.She also supports a NGO 100 Women in Hedge Funds.

QUOTES

• “I really hope I can make a difference. Even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.”

• “By far, the best dressing-up outfit I ever wore was a pair of clown dungarees, which my granny made. They were white with big red spots, and she used a hula hoop for the waistband—genius.
  

• “oh my gosh,you do it better than me.Have you been practicing?[said to a 13 year old girl showing off her british accent]
• “[Prince Charles] was very, very friendly; very welcoming.”
• “Over the years, William has really looked after me.

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NET WORTH- $ 28.5 Billion($ 1 per year)

PROFESSION-Entreperneur, Programmer, Businessperson & Philanthropist.

Mark Zuckerberg is a ‘prodigy’, an American computer programmer and internet entrepreneur. Mark co-founded the social networking website out of his college dorm room with his four co founders Eduardo Saverin,Andrew McCollum,Duustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.  Zuckerberg is the chairman and chief executive of Facebook, Inc. His one-dollar salary puts him in the elite group of $1 CEOs such as Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle and Steve Jobs, founder of Apple Inc. In 2012, he was appreciated as the world’s second youngest self made billionaire.He was being awarded as the Time  Person Of The Year in 2010.In May 2013 he was listed as the youngest CEO.

CHILDHOOD

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born in May 14,1984 in White Plains,New York,U.S.  He is the son of dentist Edwinard Zuckerberg and psychiatrist Karen Kempner. He was brought up in  Dobbs Ferry,New York. He studied in Ardsley High School where he excelled in classics. Zuckerberg later studied at Phillips Exeter Academy, a preparatory school in New Hampshire where he won prizes in science (math, astronomy and physics) and classical studies. He was a fencing star and captain of the fencing team.

Zuckerberg developed an interest in computers at an early age when he was about 12, he used Atari BASIC to create a messaging program he named “Zucknet”. Together with his friends, he also created computer games just for fun. “I had a bunch of friends who were artists,” he said. “They’d come over, draw stuff, and I’d build a game out of it”. His father  taught him Atari BASIC Programming and later hired software developer David Newman to tutor him privately. Newman calls him a “prodigy”, adding that it was “tough to stay ahead of him”. Zuckerberg took a graduate course in the subject at Mercy College near his home while he was still in high school. During Zuckerberg’s high school years, he built a music player called the Synapse Media Player that used machine learning to learn the user’s listening habits.

JOURNEY IN HARVARD

After graduating from Exeter in 2002, Zuckerberg enrolled at Harvard University. He studied psychology and computer science.By his sophomore year he gained popularity as software developer in campus.In his sophomore year  he built a program called CourseMatch, which helped students choose their classes based on the course selections of other users so as to help them with group studies. He also invented Facemash, which compared the pictures of two students on campus and allowed users to vote who was more attractive. The program became wildly popular, but was later shut down by the school administration after it was deemed inappropriate.

On February 4, 2004, Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook”, originally located at thefacebook.com. Six days after the site launched, three Harvard seniors Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra  accused Zuckerberg of  misleading them into believing that he would help them build a social network called HarvardConnection.com which could be more like a dating website for Harvard students instead he stole their idea to create “Thefacebook”.

Zuckerberg dropped out the college in his sophomore i.e. second year to complete his project  “thefacebook”.

CHRONOLOGY OF FACEBOOK

In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg officially launched Facebook, a social network designed primarily for students of Harvard.After sometime he expanded its network to Yale,Dartmouth,Columbia,Stanford,Cornell,UPenn,MIT,BU and NYU.

In 2006 Face book was made public.

In 2007, Microsoft spent $ 280 million to hold 1.7 % of the fastest growing social network. The Chinese billionaire spent $ 120 million to hold approximately 0.8% of Facebook. On May 24, 2007, Zuckerberg announced Facebook Platform, a development platform for programmers to create social applications within Facebook.

In 2008, Zuckerberg announced Facebook Connect, a version of Facebook Platform for users.

In 2009, Face book had the turn overt of $ 500 million.

In 2010, Facebook counted 500 million members.

In 2011, According to The Guardian Mark Zuckerberg leaded the way of the most powerful figure according to Media ahead Rupert Murdoch, Larry Page(Founder of Oracle) and Steve Jobs(founder of Apple Inc.)

In 2012, Facebook had roughly 9 million users in Russia, while domestic clone VK had around 34 million.So in October,2012 Mark visited Russian Prime Minister to boost Face book’s position in Russia.

In February 2014 facebook bought Whatsapp at a whopping price of $ 19 billion.

LEGAL LAWSUITS

HARVARDCONNECTION LAWSUIT-

Divya Narendra,Tyler Winklevossand Cameron Winklevoss filed the lawsuit against Zuckerberg for stealing their idea of HarvardConnection.com. The agreed settlement was for 1.2 million Facebook shares which were worth $300m at Facebook’s IPO and  $ 20 million in cash.

SAVERIN LAWSUIT-

A lawsuit filed by Eduardo Saverin  against Facebook and Zuckerberg was settled out of court. Though terms of the settlement were sealed, the company affirmed Saverin’s title as co-founder of Facebook. Saverin signed a non-disclosure contract after the settlement.

MARRIAGE

Mark starting dating Chinese-Vietnamese Dr. Priscilla Chan in 2003.

On May 19,2012 Mark exchanged the vows with Priscilla in the celebration of her graduation from medical school of University of California,San Francisco.

^ASSETS

^VILLA-

Zuckerberg lives in a house of five bedroom with his wife in Palo Alto which he bought in 2011 for an amount of $ 7  million.

JET-

Mark owns a private jet worth $ 700,000.

CAR-

Mark drives an Accura TSX which is priced at around $ 30,000.

ONSCREEN AND BOOK DEPICTION

In 2009,a book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich was released which depicts his early life in Harvard University, journey of facebook from the dorm room to the head quarters in Palo alto, California and the two legal lawsuits one by Divya Narendra,Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss for stealing their idea of Harvardconnection(later ConnectU) and the other by Eduardo Saverin which was settled out of court, the company affirmed Saverin’s title as co-founder of Facebook.

On October 1,2010 a movie THE SOCIAL NETWORK on Mark Zuckerberg and the founding years of Facebook was released. The movie was based on the novel  The Accidental Billionaire. Zuckerberg was played by Jesse Eisenberg,his friend and Face book co-founder Eduardo Saverin by Andrew Garfield and The Napster founder Sean Parker by Justin Timberlake.At the 83rd Academy Awards, it received eight nominations and won three for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Film Editing. At the 68th Golden Globe Awards, the film won Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Original Score.

PHILANTHROPY

On September 22, 2010, Zuckerberg  donated $100 million to Newark Public Schools, the public school system of Newark, New Jersey,U.S. He also donated  an undisclosed amount to Diaspora, an open-source personal web server that implements a distributed social networking service.

On December 9, 2010, Zuckerberg signed a promise  called the “Giving Pledge” along with Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, in which they promised to donate to charity at least half of their wealth over the course of time. On December 19, 2013, Zuckerberg announced a donation of 18 million Facebook shares to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation at the end of the year. On February,2014 The Chronicle of Philanthropy reported  that Zuckerberg’s donation was the largest charitable gift on the public record in 2013.  Zuckerberg and his wife  topped the annual list of the magazine 50 most generous Americans in 2013.

ACCOLADES

Since 2010, TIME magazine has named Zuckerberg among the 100 wealthiest and most influential people in the world as a part of its Person of the Year award too. In 2011, Zuckerberg ranked first on the list of the “Most Influential Jews in the World” by The Jerusalem Post  and has since consistently topped the list every year as of 2013.

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PROFESSION- FOOTBALL PLAYER,ATHLETE.

Kroy Bergmann is one of the heart throbbing,an amazing American footballer( No. 71 defensive end) for the team Atlanta Falcons of National Football League. He was born on September 12 1985.He is a native of Hardin,Montana(U.S.A).

CAREER

He has played a total of 52 matches during his college career in University of Montana. He used to play football in college.He was drafted by Falcons in the fifth round of 2008 NFL Draft. He became one of the top most defensive player.

CHILDHOOD

He was Born in Montana. His family has a tradition of naming the new borns with the names whose intial is ‘K’.Besides football he used to play other sport too such as wrestling. He was one of the premier wrestler at A level and bagged second position in the state as a junior as well as senior. During his senior year in wrestling he was the team captain and he was voted as the team’s most valuable wrestler.

COLLEGE LIFE

In 2004, he was freshman but then too he played for 14 out of the 15 games and had seven tackles for a loss.
In 2005 he played for about 12 games and was the team’s fifth tackler.
In 2006 he made 78 stops and contributed 11 sacks and 13.5 tackles for the loss in 14 games.
In 2007 he contributed with 18 tackles and 15 sacks for a loss. Resulting into total of 70 tackles accumulated by him.
He graduated from University of Montana.

He is in twitter by the name @biermann71. He has 185k followers.
There is an official page on the facebook named Kroy & Kim Biermann by Reality Wives.

NFL-ATLANTA FALCONS

He was selected for Atlanta Falcons for the defensive end in the fifth round of 2008 NFL Draft.He contributed for about a total of 14 tackles in 2008.
In 2009 season fast for the Falcons as he sacked Dolphins’ QB Chad Pennington twice, forced a holding call in the season opener. He also got a sack vs San Francisco in the Falcon’s week 5 matchup. He now has a career high 3 sacks and one 2 sack game (career high).
He scored his first touchdown of NFL November 2,2009 in New Orleans Saints.
On December 27, 2009, Bergmann stepped in as the team’s placekicker.
After Biermann accumulated five sacks in 2009, which happened to be five times the total of Anderson’s amount that season, a local star was born. The Falcons finally found their man.

INJURY

Falcon coach Mike Smith announced on September 16,2013 that defensive end Kroy Biermann will go on season ending injured reserve after suffering injuries against the Rams..
He missed the rest of the part of the season after September as he had a torn Achilles tendon so he undervent a surgery.
Due to his injury Atlanta Falcons had a huge setback and is now preferring pass rusher over any other tackles.

PERSONAL LIFE

Marriage-

Biermann is married to the stunning Kim Zolciak who is the actor of THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF ATLANTA. They first crossed paths during an Atlanta charity in May 2010.Biermann was present in the ceremony as the contestant while Kim was the attendant in support of one of the mate.The couples were involved together since then.They exchanged the vows on November 11 2011 at their place in Atlanta.

The cool daddy-

Biermann and Kim had their first child before the marriage.She gave birth to a baby boy named Kroy Jagger Biermann Jr. on May 31 2011.
On August 15 Kim gave birth to their second child a baby boy named Kash Kade Bergmann.
On June 5 2013 snapahots of Kim were all over the internet in which she appeared to be expecting which they lately approved on june 25 2013.
On November 25 2013 Kim gave birth to the twins. One was the baby girl named Kaia Rose and the other was a baby boy named Kane Ren.
Sources revealed in February 2013 that he was expected to undergo a vasectomy.
In July 2013 it was official announced that Bergmann adopted Kim’s daughters from the previous marriage named Brielle and Ariana.

MONEY

In 2008 he earned $ 469,750
In 2009 he earned about $ 392,280.
In 2011 he earned a total of $ 1,100,000
In 2012 he earned $ 2,400,000
In 2013 he earned about $ 3,500,000
He signed a contract of three years of about $ 9.15 which ended in 2013.

MANSION

Due to Kory’s injury just weeks after Zulia was forced to take out a $300k loan to finish construction on her Atlanta mansion .Later she learned that learned that she’s been ordered to cough up thousands of dollars in back taxes — or move out! Zulia and her husband, Kroy Biermann, were served with two tax liens: one from the City of Milton, Georgia, for $1,665.26, and the other from the State of Georgia and Fulton county for $10,572.67.
It’s only the latest in a series of financial problems surrounding the home, which the couple bought in 2012 for $880,000.
On December 9, 2013, they signed off on a new credit line of $300 with Landmark Community Bank to finish the renovations on the 7,186 square-foot house.

Awards and Glory

He was one of the main member of All Big Sky Conference in the year 2006 and 2007.
He was in the All America team as an amateur player in 2006 as well as in 2007 too.
In 2007 he was honoured with the Big Sky Defensive MOST VALUABLE PLAYER award.
He also bagged the Buck Buchanan award by The Sports Network in 2007.He became the first ever football player from Montana to receive this award.

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