Malala is Pakistani. She was born in 1997. A Taliban gunman tried to kill her (what did she ever do?). Luckily, she survived. After recovering from the injury, she started a non-profit fund called the Malala fund and became an education activist. In 2014, she was rewarded the Nobel Peace Prize and is the youngest laureate yet.
2. Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San is Burmese. She was born in 1945. After she graduated from the University of Delhi in 1964 and the University of Oxford in 1968, she worked at the United Nations for three years. In 1972, she married Michael Aris and had two children. She was prominent in the 1988 uprisings in Myanmar. From 1989 to 2010 she was a political prisoner. In 1991, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
3. Dalai Lama
Dalai is Tibetan. He was born in 1935. When he was four years old he was recognized as a Dalai Lama. In fact, that is not his real name. Dalai Lamas are important monks from the Gelug school, which is the newest school for Tibetan Buddhism. His real, religious name is Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso. When Dalai was fifteen, there was the PRC's (China's) invasion of Tibet, where he began to have full political duties. In 1989, he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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