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- 6. Wilde , Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills
| 5. Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American
pop singer, songwriter, guitarist, dancer, record producer, film producer, actress, film director and author. She is most commonly referred to as simply, Madonna. She is known for the use of sexual, social and religious themes in her work and has been nicknamed the “Material Girl” and “Queen of Pop” by the media. Since her debut in 1982, Madonna has released many chart-topping albums and singles, and has sold more than 200 million albums worldwide. According to both the 2007 Guinness Book of Records, and Forbes, she is the top earning female singer in the world with an estimated net worth of over $325 million. In 2001, the Guinness Book of World Records listed Madonna as the “World’s Most Successful Female Musician”. In 2005, she equalled Elvis Presley’s record of 36 top 10 hits, the most for any artist in the history of the Billboard Hot 100 charts. On the United World Chart, Madonna is the Most Successful Singles Artist of all-time and has a record of 12 number one singles, 22 top ten singles and the most weeks at number one with a total of 74 weeks. On March 10, 2008, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 6. Wilde, Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his verbal wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. As the result of a famous trial, he suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned for two years of hard labour after being convicted of “gross indecency”. Oscar Wilde spent his early years in Dublin. He was educated at home up to the age of nine, then he attended a public school and studied classics at Trinity College, Dublin. He was an outstanding student and won the highest award available to classics students at Trinity. He continued his studies at Oxford, where he became a part of the Aesthetic and Decadent movement, one of its tenets being to make an art of life. And that is often associated with the doctrine of Art for Art’s sake. He graduated in 1878. Oscar Wilde was married and had two sons. Some of his philosophy found its reflection in his famous novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. He tried his hand at many genres starting with children’s fairy tales to serious poetry like The Ballad of Reading Gaol. However, he is best remembered for his plays: Lady Windermere’s Fan, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest. After the imprisonment O. Wilde spent his last three years in Paris, penniless, in self-imposed exile from society and artistic circles. |