Muhammad Ali
To his fans, he was ‘The Greatest’ but his real name wasn’t Muhammad Ali. He was born Cassius Marcellus Clay in Kentucky in 1942. He came from a very poor family and started boxing when he was just twelve years old. As a boxer, he was incredibly fast on his feet on his feet-he almost ‘danced’. He won the world championship for the first time in 1964 but he lost his title a few years later because he refused to fight in the Vietnam War After that, he became a Muslim and changed his name to Muhammad Ali. In the 1970s, he became world champion again. Ali got Parkinson’s disease in the 1980s and stopped fighting. He began to raise money for poor people around the world. In 2000, the United Nation named him a ‘Messenger of Peace’.