Ma Ying-jeou - Taiwanese lawyer and politician, born in Hong Kong. He is the current President of the Republic of China, a country best known as Taiwan, where the official language is Chinese.
Taiwan was once called Formosa, from Portuguese ilha formosa, which means beautiful island.
Ma Ying-jeou was elected to a second term in 2012: he is the 12th and 13th President of the Republic of China
Ernõ Rubik - Hungarian architect, designer and inventor. He invented the famous Rubik's Cube
Wole Soyinka - Nigerian writer, poet and playwright of Yorubo decent. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986. He wrote The Lion and the Jewel and The Trials of Brother Jero.
Simone Veil - French lawyer and politician of Jewish descent, born Simone Jacob. She survived from the Auschwitz concentration camp