Bill Gates
Of course he’s a billionaire, but did you know he started developing software and programming computers at 13? All that BASIC paid off; you might have heard of the little company he runs called Microsoft.

Mike Lazaridis
If the word BlackBerry makes you think of fruit and not phones, you might want to talk to the guy who founded Research in Motion while a student at the University of Waterloo. His most successful accomplishment? The very Jetsons-like BlackBerry.

Kevin Plank
The Anti-Revenge of the Nerds, this former University of Maryland football player is the mind behind the multi-million dollar Under Armour brand. He developed a moisture-wicking fabric for athletic apparel 11 years ago. Not bad for someone who used to get hit in the head in his spare time.

Sylvia Fedoruk
Radioactive Man, eat your heart out. This superwoman helped to develop the first cobalt machine to use radiation to treat cancer patients AND developed a radioactive iodine-scanning device to determine if a patient's thyroid gland was cancerous. Did we mention she did this all in the 1950s?