This document profiles several influential historical figures including Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks, John F. Kennedy, Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King Jr., Florence Nightingale, and Marie Curie. It provides basic biographical details for each person such as their dates of birth and death, and summarizes their major accomplishments, including Mandela leading South Africa's anti-apartheid movement, Parks initiating the Montgomery bus boycott, Kennedy serving as US President and advocating for active citizenship, Mother Teresa founding the Missionaries of Charity, King advocating for civil rights and delivering his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech, Nightingale founding modern nursing, and Curie's pioneering research that led to her becoming