Plato was the philosopher who founded history's first ‘university’ and made us question whether the world we see is real or just a shadow on the wall. Born in 427 BC in Greece, he was a disciple of Socrates and was so affected by his death that he spent the rest of his life writing philosophical dialogues in which his master always gave the best answers.

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He founded the Academy of Athens, where he taught his ideas on politics, ethics and the theory of ideas, which basically says that true reality is on a higher plane - a concept that, centuries later, became the inspiration for The Matrix. He died in 347 BC, but his legacy lives on, especially about what we consider real and illusion.