A Chinese man who dedicated his career to educating rural people who had no opportunity for schooling and reeducating the educated to share in this task

A Bangladeshi tea shop proprietor who started Deedar Comprehensive Village Development Cooperative Society, the most successful cooperative in his country

His expertise in the management of problem soils in Vietnam, together with his knowledge on rice production and agricultural diversification in the Mekong Delta, greatly increased rice productivity and contributed to the emergence of Vietnam as the third-largest rice exporting country in the world

A Chinese atomic and nuclear theoretical physicist who worked in the United States, Canada, mainland China, and Taiwan. He has been called the "Father of Chinese Physics"

A Chinese feminist activist and English language professor, and a seven-term district-level congress member

Demonstrated that journalism can play a constructive role in fostering healthy growth

An Indian activist who has tirelessly worked in eradicating the degrading practice of manual scavenging among India's untouchables, the dalits.

A Dutch-Indonesian agriculturist who influenced a whole generation of farmers to adopt new technologies that increased agricultural yield

An American Baptist minister who restored productivity to abandoned mountainsides and other wasteland using SALT, or Sloping Agricultural Land Technology and FAITH (Food Always in the Home) Garden that he and his co-workers developed