U Thant was a Burmese diplomat and the third Secretary-General of the United Nations, from 1961 to 1971. He was chosen for the post when his predecessor Dag Hammarskjöld was killed in an air crash in September 1961. 'U' is an honorific in Burmese, roughly equal to 'Mister'. Thant was his only name. In Burmese he was known as Pantanaw U Thant, a reference to his home town of Pantanaw.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (born : May 13, 1956) is an Indian spiritual master (Guru). He is often referred to by the self-chosen double-honorific "Sri Sri" or Guruji. He is considered a spiritual leader by his disciples and is the founder of the international Art of Living Foundation Foundation that aims to globalise traditional Indian wisdom in ways that are compatible with modern life.

Augusta was the feminine form of the title Augustus. It was usually given to the wives or relatives of the Roman Emperors. In the 3rd century, "Augustae" could also receive the titles of "Mater castrorum" and "Mater patriae".

Rabbi Isaac Luria was a Jewish mystic in Safed. His name today is attached to all of the mystic thought in Safed: while his literary contribution to the Kabbalistic school of Safed was extremely minute (he only wrote a few poems), his fame led to the school and all its works being named after him. The main popularizer of his ideas was Hayim Vital, though Vital's claim to be the official interpreter of the Lurianic system was not undisputed.

Chittaranjan Das (C.R.Das) (popularly called Deshbandhu) (November 5, 1870 - June 16, 1925) was a Bengali lawyer and a major figure in the Indian independence movement. Educated in England, his public career began in 1909 when he successfully defended Aurobindo Ghosh on charges of involvement in the previous year's Alipore bomb case. He was a leading figure in Bengal during the Non-Cooperation Movement of 1919-1922, and initiated the ban on British clothes, …

Thura Shwe Mann (born 1947) is Joint Chief of Staff of the Burmese Armed Forces, and third-highest ranking member of the State Peace and Development Council, after Than Shwe and Maung Aye. He graduated in 1969 from the Defence Services Academy, Maymyo, Intake 11. He earned the honorific title "Thura" for his bravery in fighting the Karen National Liberation Army in 1989, and continued his studies at the National Defence Institute.

Adriaen Cornelissen van der Donck (ca. 1618 - 1655) was a lawyer and landowner in New Netherland after whose honorific "Jonkheer" the city of Yonkers, New York is named. In addition to being the first lawyer in the Dutch colony, he was a leader in the political life of New Amsterdam (modern New York City), and an activist for Dutch-style republican government in the Dutch West India Company-run trading post. Enchanted by his new homeland of New Netherland, …

Huehue Zaca or Zacatzin was a 15th century Aztec noble and a warrior who served as "tlacateccatl" ("captain general") under the ruler Moctezuma I. The name "Zaca" is probably derived from Nahuatl "zacatl", meaning "grass"; "-tzin" is an honorific or reverential suffix. "Huehue" is Nahuatl for "the elder", literally "old man". Zaca was the fourth child of ruler Huitzilihuitl.

His Beatitude Metropolitan Wasyly was the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (UOCC) from 1985 until his death in 2005. Metropolitan Wasyly was born Wasyl’ Fedak on November 1, 1909 in Kadobivtsy, Ukraine. Together with his parents and five siblings, he immigrated to Canada and settled in Sheho, Saskatchewan. In young adulthood, he became a teacher: a career that lasted 14 years. He then studied at a seminary of the UOCC from 1941 to 1944.

Battal Gazi or "Sidi" or "Seyyid" Battal Ghazi was a Muslim, most likely Arab, saintly figure and warrior based in Anatolia (associated primarily with Malatya, where his father, Hüseyin Gazi, was the ruler) during the late Umayyad period (8th century) whose attributed legends, which also form the bulk of the information available on the historic personality, later became an important part in Turkish folk literature.

Dr. Thomas Clark Durant, 1820-1885, was an American financier and railroad promoter. He was vice-president of the Union Pacific in 1869 when it met the Central Pacific railroad at Promontory Summit in Utah Territory. He was also a chief architect of what would become the Crédit Mobilier scandal.

Yusuf Balasaghuni, Yusuf "Khass Khajib" Balasaghuni was an 11th century Uyghur scribe from the city of Balasaghun, the capital of the Karakhanid Empire. He wrote the Kutadgu Bilig and most of what is known about him comes from his own writings in this work. Balasagun was located near present-day Tokmok in Kyrgyzstan. Yusuf Has Hajib was about 50 years old when he completed the Kutadgu Bilig.

Bhai Bachittar Singh (6 May 1664-8 December 1705), often known with the honorific "Shaheed" (martyr), was a Lobana Sikh hero, a warrior under Guru Gobind Singh. He is best remembered today as the soldier who drove a spear into the head of an intoxicated elephant at the Battle of Anandpur. Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji and a small number of Sikhs were defending their position in Lohgarh fort of Anandpur Sahib, …

Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi is a former envoy of the Taliban government in Afghanistan. 'Sayed' is an honorific title that indicates lineage with the family of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Also known simply as Rahmatullah, he is currently enrolled in the Non-degree Students Program at Yale University. In July 2006 it was announced that his application to pursue a bachelor's degree had been rejected by Yale College via the Eli Whitney Students Program.

Edmond Jacques Courtois was a Canadian lawyer and public official. Courtois was appointed chair of the Security Intelligence Review Committee on December 23 1992, the third person ever to chair the body responsible for oversight of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Courtois was born in Montreal. During World War II he served with the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve and called to the Quebec bar in 1946. He practiced law with the firm of MacDougall, …

Otto Orseolo (Italian: "Ottone Orseolo", also "Urseolo"; died 1032) was the Doge of Venice from 1008 to 1026. He was the third son of Pietro II Orseolo, whom he succeeded at the age of sixteen, becoming the youngest doge in Venetian history. When the Emperor Otto III sojourned in Verona and granted many privileges to Venice in the March of Verona, he requested Pietro send his third son to Verona, where the Emperor acted as his sponsor at his confirmation.