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Ted Turner is an American broadcasting entrepreneur, philanthropist, sportsman, and environmentalist who founded a media empire that included several television channels that he created, notably CNN. (Read...

Bruno Peyron is a French yachtsman who set a number of sailing records and was a three-time winner (1993, 2002, 2005) of the Jules Verne Trophy for the fastest trip around the world under sail. Peyron,...

Russell Coutts is a New Zealand yachtsman who led his country’s team to its first America’s Cup victory in 1995. Coutts won his first regatta at age nine, steering a 2.13-metre (7-foot) wooden dinghy off...

Steve Fossett was an American businessman and adventurer who set a number of world records, most notably in aviation and sailing. In 2002, he became the first balloonist to circumnavigate the world alone,...

Jacques Rogge was a Belgian athlete and physician who served as president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 2001 to 2013. Rogge studied sports medicine and earned his medical degree in...

Ben Ainslie is a British sailing champion who became the most-decorated Olympic mariner of all time when he captured his fourth career gold medal (fifth medal overall) at the 2012 Games in London. Ainslie...

Dame Ellen MacArthur is an English yachtswoman who in 2005 set a world record for the fastest solo nonstop voyage around the world on her first attempt. MacArthur began sailing with her aunt at age four...

Paul Elvstrøm was a Danish yachtsman who is considered the greatest sailor in Olympic history, dominating Finn-class sailing between 1948 and 1960. He won four consecutive gold medals in monotype (single-person)...

Charles Francis Adams III was an American lawyer and businessman, government official, yachtsman, and philanthropist who made Harvard University one of the most abundantly endowed academic institutions....

Sir Peter Markham Scott was a British conservationist and artist. He founded the Severn Wildfowl Trust (1946; renamed the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust) and helped establish the World Wildlife Fund (1961;...

Ben Lexcen was an Australian yachtsman and marine architect who designed Australia II, the first non-American yacht to win (1983) the prestigious America’s Cup in the 132-year history of the race. Lexcen,...

Olin James Stephens II was an American naval architect who was designer, skipper, and navigator of the yacht Dorade, the winner of the 1931 Transatlantic and Fastnet races, and who was codesigner and relief...