This document contains brief summaries of several influential historical figures: - Mother Teresa who helped people with leprosy, founded a religious order, and won the Nobel Peace Prize. - Leonardo da Vinci who was a renowned polymath and artist who invented several important technologies and painted famous works like the Mona Lisa. - Saddam Hussein who was an Iraqi politician and military leader who started a war with Iran that lasted 8 years and used weapons of mass destruction. - Thomas Edison who was an American inventor and businessman who developed many technologies including the light bulb and helped develop technologies like radar and X-ray. - Mahatma Gandhi who was an Indian political thinker who