Won a Nobel Prize for literature and couldn't even be bothered to show up and collect it.
Fun fact: He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016 and ignored the committee's calls for two weeks.
They took water skiing, turned it sideways, nicked a few tricks from snowboarding, and called it a sport.
Fun fact: The sport didn't exist before 1985, when someone bolted foot straps onto a surfboard behind a boat.