- Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946 in Queens, New York, New York) is an American business executive, entrepreneur, television personality and author. He is the CEO of Trump Organization, an American-based real estate developer, and the founder of Trump Entertainment, which operates several casinos. He received a great deal of publicity following the success of his reality television show, …
- Alan Sugar
Sir Alan Michael Sugar is an English businessman. After leaving school at 16, Sugar started selling car aerials and electrical goods out of a van he had bought with his savings of £100. He now has an estimated fortune of £830m. and was ranked 84th in the Sunday Times Rich List 2007. Despite being best known as a technology businessman, most of Sugar's wealth now derives from his property portfolio in Mayfair, rather than business ventures.
- Mark Burnett
Mark Burnett (born 17 July, 1960) is a British television producer. He is known for introducing reality television as a genre to the USA. "Survivor" is the most watched summer series since "Sonny and Cher". Burnett produced the USA version of the series "Survivor" and the "Eco-Challenge". His eponymous production company setup "The Apprentice", "The Restaurant", "The Casino", "Rock Star", "Combat Missions", …
- Bill Rancic
William "Bill" Rancic (born May 16, 1971) is an American entrepreneur who was the first candidate hired on national television by The Trump Organization at the conclusion of the first season of Donald Trump's reality business show, "The Apprentice". He is the first "Apprentice" winner.
- Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth
Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth (born Omaroseonee O. Manigault February 15, 1974) is a former participant on Donald Trump's television reality show "The Apprentice". Omarosa was born in Youngstown, Ohio where she attended Rayen High School. She has gone on to appear on various talk shows and other reality shows, where her brash personality has frequently been the source of controversy.
- Randal Pinkett
Randal D. Pinkett, Ph.D. (born 1971 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is the first African American candidate to be hired on national television through the US version of "The Apprentice", a television reality show starring Donald Trump. (There have been black candidates hired in the South African and British versions of the programme before Pinkett was hired.) Pinkett was hired on national television during the season finale of season four.
- Carolyn Kepcher
Carolyn Kepcher (b. January 30 1969 in Westchester, New York) is an American businesswoman who was the Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, and General Manager for the Trump National Golf Club and best known for her regular appearance on the NBC television program "The Apprentice". Before her career with Trump ended in August of 2006, …
- Ivanka Trump
Ivanka Trump | Jewelry Ivanka Trump , daughter of none other than billionaire mogul Donald Trump, has finally announced the details her new plans to try designing jewelry. In an interview with retail publication Women's Wear Daily, Trump announced that she will be working with Dynamic Diamonds Corp., to create her own line of diamond jewelry. She also has plans to create three Ivanka Trump boutiques in which she will sell the jewelry line.
- Margaret Mountford
Margaret Mountford is a British lawyer and business woman originally from Holywood, Northern Ireland. She was educated at Cambridge University. She has been a non-Executive Director of Amstrad plc since 22 September, 1999 and also has many years corporate law experience as a partner in the law firm Herbert Smith, from which she retired in March 1999. She is also a non-Executive Director at Georgica Plc. Mountford has never been directly employed by Sugar, …
- Katie Hopkins
Katie Hopkins (born May 31, 1976, in Barnstaple, Devon, England) is a reality television participant who appeared on the third series of the British version of "The Apprentice". She withdrew from the show in week 11, and was not dismissed with Sir Alan Sugar's catch phrase "You're Fired". Hopkins was memorable on the programme for her nasty comments to other contestants and to members of the public.
- Kendra Todd
Kendra Todd (born 1978) was hired by Donald Trump on national television at the conclusion of Season 3 of NBC's "The Apprentice" live at New York University on May 19, 2005. She was the first female candidate, and the youngest, to be hired on the US "Apprentice".
- Donny Deutsch
Donald Jay "Donny" Deutsch (born November 22, 1957 in Queens, New York) is an advertising executive and talk show host. Deutsch is the chairman of Deutsch, Inc., a $2.7 billion marketing company founded by his father that is the 10th-largest U.S. agency. In 2000, Donny sold his agency to the Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG) for a reported $300 million. He is also the managing partner of Deutsch Open City, an independent production company.
- Ruth Badger
Ruth Badger (born 1978 in Wolverhampton) is a British business woman. Badger was the runner-up in the second series of the UK version of "The Apprentice". She is currently the presenter of the TV show "Badger or Bust". Badger has her own consultancy firm, "Ruth Badger Consultancy Ltd", with offices in Didsbury, Manchester and has also appeared on "The Big Idea" on Sky One
- Nick Hewer
Nick Hewer is a former Public Relations Officer living in France. He has previously spent 21 years in the Amstrad management team. His PR company was hired by Amstrad to represent them in 1983. He sold the company in 1998. Hewer is one of Sir Alan Sugar's advisors in every episode of the UK version of the "The Apprentice" television show.
- Sean Yazbeck
Sean Yazbeck (born 1972 in London, England) is a businessman, actor, and the winner of the fifth season of the reality show, "The Apprentice", where candidates compete in several tasks on a 15-week "job interview" for a position in one of billionaire Donald Trump's companies. He is the first non-American to be selected during the run of The Apprentice.
- Kelly Perdew
Kelly Crawford Perdew (born January 29,1967) of Carlsbad, California was the winner of the second season of "The Apprentice".
- Kwame Jackson
Kwame Jackson of New York, New York, was one of the two final candidates on Donald Trump's American television reality series "The Apprentice". His second place finish was due to his failure to competently deal with Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, a fellow contestant selected by Jackson to work under him during the final episode. His prize was a job as a judge for the Miss Universe pageant, …
- Michelle Dewberry
Michelle Dewberry (born October 9, 1979 in Hull, East Yorkshire) was the winner of the second series of British television programme "The Apprentice". She was hired by Sir Alan Sugar, but after a series of personal problems she left Amstrad in September 2006.
- Kristine Lefebvre
Kristine Leigh Lefebvre is a lawyer, and was a contestant on NBC's reality show "The Apprentice" who made it into the final group of six contestants before being fired. The credentials which garnered Kristine a spot on the show include her education and career as an attorney. Her undergraduate degree is from the Metropolitan State College in Denver, and her law degree is from Nova Southeastern University in Florida.
- Simon Ambrose
Simon Ambrose was the winner of the third series of the British version of "The Apprentice". Ambrose attended Westminster School ,and was a member of Rigaud's house, where he was widely known by the monker of 'Spambrose', before graduating from Magdalene College, Cambridge with a Double First in Economics.
- Saira Khan
Saira Khan (born 1970, Long Eaton, Derbyshire, England) was the runner-up on the first series of The Apprentice in Great Britain. She is now a TV presenter on BBC's Temper Your Temper and Desi DNA while hosting her own programme Beat the Boss. Saira has also appeared on TV show Ready Steady Cook and runs her own baby-products business. She is a columnist for the Daily Mirror, …
- Stefani Schaeffer
Stefani Schaeffer (born Stefanie Lynn Schaeffer in Burbank, California) is an American defense attorney from California. Schaeffer was recently named "Season 6 Apprentice" on the reality show of the same name.
- Kristina Grimes
Kristina Grimes (born October 31, 1970) is a 36-year-old businesswoman from Julianstown, County Meath, Ireland. She is currently known for being the runner up in the final of the third series of the British version of "The Apprentice".
- Raj Bhakta
Raj Peter Bhakta is a real estate developer former contestant on the second season of the reality show "The Apprentice". He was the Republican Party's nominee for the United States House of Representatives in Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district, but lost to incumbent Democrat Allyson Schwartz.
- Giuliana Depandi
Giuliana DePandi (born August 17, 1974, in Naples, Italy) is an Italian-American celebrity news personality. DePandi was raised in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, received a bachelor's degree in Journalism from the University of Maryland, and a master's degree in Journalism from American University. DePandi is a host on "E! News", the E! Network's flagship entertainment news program, airing daily (with multiple reruns and weekend airings).
- James Sun
James Sun (born 1977) is the chief executive officer of Zoodango, a social networking website for professionals. He was an American competitior in The Apprentice 6. He was fired at the Season Finale on April 22, 2007, finishing as the runner-up.
- Angela Ruggiero
Angela Ruggiero (born January 3, 1980 in Panorama City, California) is an American ice hockey defenseman. She is also the author of a memoir about her hockey experiences and a former contestant on the NBC reality show The Apprentice. While still a high school senior at Choate Rosemary Hall, Ruggiero played on the gold medal-winning 1998 United States Olympic Hockey Team in Nagano, Japan. She was also a member of the silver medal-winning 2002 team in Salt Lake City, Utah.
- Ereka Vetrini
Ereka Vetrini is an American television personality. She was a contestant on the first season of "The Apprentice" in 2004. Vetrini is a native of New York City who graduated with honors from Boston College. After graduation, she worked for General Electric's financial management program. She has worked in Hong Kong, Australia, Greece, Spain, Switzerland and England as an internal operations consultant for Estée Lauder.
- Alexis Stewart
Alexis Stewart (born September 27, 1965) is best known as Martha Stewart's daughter. She currently co-hosts "Whatever with Alexis & Jennifer" on Sirius Satellite Radio, channel 112 (the show airs weekdays 5pm eastern and repeats at midnight eastern).
- Charles Koppelman
Charles Koppelman (born March 30, 1940, in The Bronx, New York City, New York) is the chairman of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, and was Martha Stewart's right-hand man on NBC's "The Apprentice: Martha Stewart" (fall 2005). Koppelman had previously been CEO of EMI Music. Prior to that he headed a music publishing and production company known as The Entertainment Company.
- Melania Trump
Melania Knauss-Trump (born Melanija Knavs, anglicized to Melania Knauss, on April 26, 1970) is a fashion model from Slovenia, and is the wife of the American business executive and real estate magnate Donald Trump, who is twenty-four years her senior and whom she married on January 22, 2005.
- Lee Bienstock
Lee, graduated from Cornell University with distinction and a 4.0 GPA, where he received a B.S. in Policy Analysis and Management. While attending Cornell University, he won business plan writing and marketing competitions, and served as a teaching assistant for courses in Entrepreneurship and Management.
- Sam Solovey
Sam Solovey was a contestant on Donald Trump's "The Apprentice". His erratic behavior and the infamous "stare" he gave after his firing made him one of the most talked-about contestants on the show, alongside Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, notorious for her excuses and tricks of getting her teammates in trouble, and Bill Rancic, the winner of the competition. On the night of the finale, Solovey offered "Trump" a briefcase of $250,000 if Trump would hire him.
- George H. Ross
George H. Ross (born 6 January 1928 in Brooklyn, New York) is executive vice president and senior counsel of the Trump Organization. He is perhaps best known as one of Donald Trump's two advisors on the NBC reality television program "The Apprentice"; Carolyn Kepcher, whose employment has since been terminated in August of 2006, was the other.
- Roma Downey
Roma Downey was born in Derry City, Northern Ireland. After art school she studied at the Drama Studio of London. She toured the USA with Ireland's National Theater Company, the famed Abbey players and for her work she was nominated as best actress at the Helen Hayes awards. She landed in New York and immediately went to work off Broadway ,starring in such shows as "Arms and the Man" at the Roundabout and "Loves Labors Lost" at the Public.
- Aaron Altscher
Aaron Altscher (born May 26, 1981 in Ellicott City, Maryland) is a candidate for the sixth season of reality show, "The Apprentice", where candidates compete in several tasks as an extended "interview" for a position in one of millionaire Donald Trump's companies. He is known as The Adapter.
- Tradesman
A tradesman is a skilled manual worker in a particular trade or craft. Economically and socially, a tradesman's status is considered between a labourer and a professional, with a high degree of both practical and theoretical knowledge of their trade. In cultures where professional careers are highly prized there can be a shortage of skilled manual workers, leading to lucrative niche markets in the trades.
- Paul Torrisi
Paolo "Paul" Roberto Torrisi (born April 25, 1970) was one of the final four contestants on the first series of "The Apprentice" in the UK. Though ultimately fired, Sir Alan Sugar did offer Torrisi a job working with his son Daniel for his private jet company Amsair. Torrsi turned down the job on Sugar's advice and has since been focusing on a career in the media. After "The Apprentice", he has gone on to make appearances on "Grandstand (BBC)", …
- Frank Lombardi
Frank Lombardi(born 1979) is the chief executive officer of Lombardi Contracting, a real estate development firm. He is a candidate for the sixth season of reality show, "The Apprentice", where candidates compete in several tasks as an extended "interview" for a position in one of millionaire Donald Trump's companies. He also helped launch a hi-tech computer company, Computer Overhauls.
- Bricklayer
A bricklayer or mason is a tradesman who lays bricks to construct brickwork. The term also refers to personnel who use blocks to construct blockwork walls and other forms of masonry. In British and Australian English, a bricklayer is colloquially known as a "brickie". The training of a trade in European cultures has been a formal tradition for many centuries.