A painter who has made a life-long profession to preserve Thailand's national artistic tradition, and through painting, restoration, writing and teaching, enlivening it with a future

An Indonesian social worker who established a national movement that mobilized volunteers and who institutionalized social services

A Korean who advocated for the propagation of knowledge to rural areas in South Korea through the establishment of libraries

A French Catholic layman who provided refuge and redirection for very poor, orphaned and handicapped boys and juvenile delinquents in Sri Lanka

An Indian Carnatic vocalist who was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour

A renowned Filipino violinist devoted to bringing fine music to ordinary people

A Filipina theater artist who devised a practical program for a national theatre and founded the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) in 1967

Popularly referred to as JP or Lok Nayak, was an Indian independence activist, social reformer and political leader, remembered especially for leading the mid-1970s opposition.

A refugee Chinese Catholic priest in South Vietnam, led a militia called the Sea Swallows that carved out an anticommunist enclave in the Viet Cong's Ca Mau Peninsula stronghold.