Fazlur Rahman Khan was born in the Faridpur district of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was responsible for inventing tubular designs for high-rise buildings, a concept inspired by the bamboo that grew around his hometown. He rose to prominence as the architect of Chicago's 100-story John Hancock Center and 108-story Sears (Willis) Tower, the world's tallest skyscraper at the time.

Humayun Ahmed was a well-known writer whose literary works like Kothao Keu Nei, Aaj Robibar, and Srabon Megher Din are considered masterpieces in Bengali literature. Ahmed's writing has touched many lives, especially young readers who he inspires to take up reading for leisure.

Dr. Aditi Sen De is a computational physicist at Harish Chandra Research Institute in Uttar Pradesh, India. Her research focuses on various aspects of quantum communication that use the laws of quantum physics to protect data. She is the recipient of the 2018 Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Physical Sciences, the most prestigious award awarded to a scientist by the Indian government.

Indra Nooyi was born in Madras (now known as Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India, in 1955. She is a former chairperson and chief executive officer (CEO) of PepsiCo and was ranked the 2nd most powerful woman on the Fortune list in 2015.

Melanie Perkins is the founder of the free-to-use graphic design website, Canva.

Swati Mohan is an Indian-American aerospace engineer who became the Guidance and Controls Operations Lead on the NASA Mars 2020 mission. Mohan and her team ensured the spacecraft carrying the Mars rover was properly oriented for travel and landing on the red planet's surface.

C.J.Eliezer is a Ceylon Tamil mathematician, physicist, and academic born in Ceylon (Or Sri Lanka nowadays).

Dr. Elagu V. Elaguppillai is a Canadian of Sri Lankan Tamil descent best know for his work as a nuclear scientist, medical researcher, and businessman. He was the founder, president, and chief operating officer of the biopharmaceutical company Innopharm Inc. and co-founder of the Academy of Applied Pharmaceutical Sciences, a postgraduate pharmaceutical college in Toronto. In 2006 Dr. Elaguppillai successfully ran as a candidate for the regional council of Markram.

Magdalena created a hand tractor with a concave “shell” that allowed the machine to float on top of the mud and water of her farm’s fields. This concept is a lot like the way a turtle’s shell, filled with air, provides buoyancy. Appropriately, Magdalena called her invention the “Turtle Pow”