"I Saved a Boy as I was Swept to Sea"

Lieutenant Colonel Fermin Carangan rescued a seven year old boy as they were both being swept away by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi is a Nobel prize winning French scientist who discovered that HIV is the cause of AIDS.

Brandon Stanton is an American photographer who goes up to complete strangers on the streets of New York and asks them to share their life stories.

Haluk Bilginer is a Turkish film and TV actor whose lifelong mission to establish independent theatre in Turkey.

Picture: Carlos Holganza.