- Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is the American multiple-Emmy Award winning host of "The Oprah Winfrey Show", the highest rated talk show in television history. She is also an influential book critic, an Academy Award-nominated actress, and a magazine publisher. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century, the most philanthropic African American of all time, and the world's only black billionaire for three straight years. - George Soros
George Soros (born August 12, 1930, in Budapest, Hungary, as György Schwartz) is an American financial speculator, stock investor, philanthropist, and political activist. He peacefully promotes democracy in Eastern Europe. Currently, he is the chairman of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Institute and is also a former member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations. His support for the Solidarity labor movement in Poland, … - Rosie O'Donnell
Roseann Theresa "Rosie" O'Donnell (born March 21, 1962 in Bayside, Queens, New York) is an 11-time Emmy Award-winning American talk show host, television personality, comedienne, celebrity blogger, film, television, and stage actress. - David Geffen
David Lawrence Geffen (born February 21, 1943) is an American record executive, film producer, theatrical producer, philanthropist. Geffen is noted for creating Asylum Records in 1970 (which merged with Elektra Records in 1972 to form Elektra/Asylum Records), and Geffen Records in 1980, along with his later role as one of the three founders of Dreamworks SKG in 1994. According to "Forbes" magazine, he is a billionaire. - Hugh Hefner
Hugh Marston Hefner (born April 9, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois), also referred to colloquially as Hef, is the founder and editor-in-chief of "Playboy" magazine. He has become an icon of American sexuality and a spokesman for the sexual revolution and libertarianism - Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow is an American singer and songwriter best known for his recordings "I Write the Songs", "Mandy" and "Copacabana". His career achievements include selling more than 75 million records worldwide. In 1978, five of his albums were on the best-selling charts simultaneously, a feat equalled only by Frank Sinatra and Johnny Mathis. - Baron Davis
Baron Walter Louis Davis (born April 13 1979, in Compton, California) is an American basketball player currently starting at point guard for the NBA's Golden State Warriors. He began playing basketball at the age of five. Later, Davis became a star at Crossroads School and UCLA. Davis was drafted by the Charlotte Hornets as the number three pick in the 1999 NBA Draft. - Kendrick Meek
Kendrick Brett Meek (born September 6 1966) has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing (map). He is a member of the New Democrat Coalition. OnTheIssues has labeled Meek a liberal-leaning populist. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives on November 5, 2002, succeeding his mother, Congresswoman Carrie Meek, who retired from the seat. He was born in Miami, Florida. - Ellen Malcolm
Ellen R. Malcolm has had a long career in politics, particularly in political fundraising. She is an heiress of one of the founders of IBM. After graduating from Hollins College in 1969, she worked for Common Cause in the 1970s. She was a press secretary for National Women's Political Caucus and later Esther Peterson, special assistant for consumer affairs in the Carter administration. She went on to found EMILY's List and is now president of America Coming Together. - Terry Semel
Terry Semel was born on February 24, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.. His father was a women's coat designer and his mother was a bus company executive. Terry was raised in Bay Terrace, a community in Bayside, Queens. He was the middle child and has two sisters. At the age of 23, he graduated from Long Island University in Brooklyn with a B.S. degree in accounting. - Abigail Johnson
Abigail Johnson (born January 7, 1962) is an American financial businesswoman. She runs Fidelity Investments together with her father Edward Johnson. From the 2006 annual list of 400 richest Americans Abigail Johnson ranks 16th with $13 billion. She was ranked as the 28th richest person in the world in 2005 and the 5th richest woman by "Forbes" magazine's list of the world's richest people. Forbes calculated her net worth in 2005 at $12 billion. - Alan Dershowitz
Alan Morton Dershowitz (born September 1, 1938) is an American political figure and criminal law professor at Harvard Law School known for his extensive published works, career as an attorney in several high-profile law cases, and commentary on the Arab-Israeli conflict. He has spent most of his career at Harvard Law School, where, at the age of 28, he became the youngest full professor in the history of Harvard, … - Minyon Moore
Minyon Moore (born May 16, 1958) in Chicago, Illinois is a founder of America Coming Together, and heads Dewey Square Group's state and local practice. She was formerly COO of the Democratic National Committee, and before that, assistant to the President of the United States and Director of White House Political Affairs under President Bill Clinton. Before that, Moore worked as an advisor to the presidential campaign of Rev. Jesse Jackson in 1984 and 1988. - Jeffrey Katzenberg
Jeffrey Katzenberg (born December 21, 1950 in New York City) is an American film producer and CEO of DreamWorks Animation SKG. He is perhaps most famous for his period as studio chairman at The Walt Disney Company, and for producing the movie "Shrek" (2001). - Stephon Marbury
Stephon Xavier Marbury (born February 20, 1977 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American professional basketball player, currently playing point guard with the New York Knicks. Marbury has often gone by the nickname "Starbury", a name created during his youth. Marbury, the sixth of seven children, was born and raised on Coney Island and attended elementary school PS 238 During his teenage years he was often heralded as the next great New York City point guard, … - Lani Guinier
Lani Guinier (born 1950) is arguably one of the foremost American civil rights scholars in the United States. The first black woman tenured professor at Harvard Law School, Guinier's work spans a range of topics, including professional responsibilities of public lawyers, the relationship between democracy and the law, the role of race and gender in the political process, equity in college admissions, and affirmative action. - Franklin Raines
Franklin Delano Raines (born January 14, 1949 in Seattle, Washington) is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Fannie Mae who served as White House budget director under President Bill Clinton. The son of a Seattle janitors, Raines graduated from Harvard University, Harvard Law School; and Magdalen College, Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. - James Sinegal
James Sinegal is co-founder and CEO of Costco, an international low-price membership retail chain headquartered in Issaquah, Washington, USA. He was born January 1, 1936 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was a protege of Sol Price, who pioneered the concept of the warehouse store that sells high volumes of a small variety of goods. He is known for a benevolent style of management that offers employees high benefits and rewards. - Jack Block
Jack Block is a notable psychology professor emeritus at UC Berkeley. His main areas of interest are personality theory, personality development, research methodology, personality assessment, longitudinal research, and cognition. Block was born in 1924 in Brooklyn, New York, and received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1950. He has received many awards over the years and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. - Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen (born July 9, 1971, in New Lisbon, Wisconsin) is the chair of Opsware, a software company, and cofounder of Ning, a consumer Internet company. He is best known as a cofounder of Netscape Communications Corporation and co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser. In 2005, it was revealed that he is one of the people behind Ning, which recently launched a free "playground" for social software. - Howard Schultz
Howard Schultz (b. July 19, 1953) is an American businessman and entrepreneur most widely known as the chairman of Starbucks and a former owner of Seattle SuperSonics which he sold to Oklahoma businessman Clayton Bennett. Howard Schultz co-founded Maveron, his investment group, in 1998 with Dan Levitan. He grew up in a subsidized public housing project (Bay View Houses) in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn, New York. - Mario Morino
Mario Morino is chairman of Venture Philanthropy Partners and chairman of the Morino Institute. Before retiring from private industry in 1992, Mario enjoyed a 30-year career in information technology, where he co-founded and helped build a corporation that became a market leader and one of the industry’s then 10 largest firms in software and services. - Mitchell Kertzman
Mitchell Kertzman is a venture capitalist with Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, and former CEO of Sybase, Powersoft, and Liberate Technologies. - Anthony Lake
Anthony Lake National Security Advisor 1993-97 - Lester Crown
Lester Crown (born 1926) is the son of Chicago financier Henry Crown (d. 1990), who created Material Service with two brothers in 1919, which merged with General Dynamics in 1959. He has been a perennial member of the Forbes 400 list since 1982. Lester controls family holdings, including large stakes in Maytag, Hilton Hotels, Alltell, Aspen Skiing Company, New York's Rockefeller Center, and pro basketball's Chicago Bulls. He also holds a stake in the New York Yankees, … - Stan O'Neal
E. Stanley "Stan" O'Neal is the present Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., having served in numerous senior management positions at the company prior to this appointment. O'Neal was a member of the board of directors of General Motors from 2001 through 2006. - Frank Westheimer
Frank Henry Westheimer (January 15, 1912 - April 14, 2007) was an American chemist. He was the Morris Loeb Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Harvard University, and the Westheimer medal is named in his honour. Born in Baltimore, he graduated from Dartmouth and earned his doctorate in chemistry from Harvard in 1935. He was a member of President Lyndon Johnson's science advisory committee from 1967 to 1970. - William Kennard
William E. Kennard was chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 1997 to 2001, Appointed by Bill Clinton in November 1997. During his tenure, he shaped policies that created an explosion of new wireless phones, brought the Internet to a majority of American households and resulted in billions of dollars of investment in new broadband technologies. He also implemented policies to bridge the digital divide in the United States and the world. - John Warnock
John Warnock (b. October 6, 1940) is an American computer scientist best known as the co-founder with Charles Geschke of Adobe Systems Inc., the graphics and publishing software company. Although retired as CEO in 2001, he still co-chairs the board with Geschke. Warnock was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has a B.S. in mathematics and philosophy, an M.S. in mathematics, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, all from the University of Utah. - Philippe Villers
Philippe Villers founded the company Computervision with Marty Allen in 1969. In 1980 he co-founded Automatix, an early robotics company, which he led until 1986. He later served as president of Cognition Corporation for 3 years. He is currently (2006) president of GrainPro, Inc., and board member of a number of high-tech startups, as well as president of Families USA Foundation, which he endowed. Villers was born in France and came to the United States as a child. - Steven Rattner
Steven "Steve" Rattner is an American venture capitalist. As of 2004 he is founder and managing principal at private investment firm Quadrangle Group, which invests media and communications companies in the United States and Europe.. A graduate of Brown University, Rattner worked at Morgan Stanley, where he founded their Communications Group. - George Zimmer
George Zimmer (born November 21, 1948) is an American entrepreneur, the founder and CEO of the Men's Wearhouse, a men's clothing retailer that now has more than 600 stores across the U.S. and Canada under the brands Moores, Men's Wearhouse and K&G Superstores. - Paula Scher
Paula Scher (born 1948 in Washington D.C.) is an American graphic designer and artist. Scher studied at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington D.C., earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts. In the 1970s she designed album covers for CBS Recordings, before moving into art direction for magazines. She worked at Time Inc. before forming her own design firm, Koppel & Scher. - Kurt Schmoke
Kurt L. Schmoke (born December 1, 1949) is the Dean of the Howard University Law School and a former mayor of Baltimore, Maryland. The son of Murray (a civilian chemist for the US Army) and Irene Schmoke (a social worker), he attended the public schools of Baltimore. Schmoke is an honorary member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the nation's oldest inter-collegiate fraternity for African American men - Dawn Clark Netsch
Dawn Clark Netsch (born September 16, 1926 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American politician. She is considered to be a liberal Democrat. She attended Northwestern University in Chicago where she graduated magna cum laude in 1952. She later ended up teaching law at the university. In 1994, she was chosen to be the Democratic nominee for Illinois governor, becoming the first woman to run for governor of that state. - Boyd Tinsley
Boyd Tinsley (b. May 16, 1964, Charlottesville, Virginia) is the violinist and one of the backup singers in the American jam band Dave Matthews Band. He was raised in a highly musical family; his father was a choir director and his uncle a bass/trumpet player for local bands. Coincidentally, he grew up in the same neighborhood as future Dave Matthews Band drummer Carter Beauford and saxophonist LeRoi Moore. - Kenneth Chenault
Kenneth Irvine Chenault (born Long Island, June 2, 1951) has been the CEO and Chairman of American Express since 2001. He was the third African-American CEO of a Fortune 500 company. He received a B.A. in History from Bowdoin College in 1973, and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1976. After Harvard he worked as an associate with the law firm Rogers & Wells in New York City, and as a consultant for Bain & Company. - Mark Tushnet
Mark Tushnet (born 1945 -) is a prominent critical legal studies proponent, constitutional law scholar, and author of many books. He received his B.A. from Harvard University and his J.D. from Yale University. While serving as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall, Tushnet authored a memo which dramatically influenced the opinion in Roe v. Wade. - James Crown
James S. Crown is a businessman. He is president of Henry Crown and Company, a private investment company. He is a director of JPMorgan Chase & Co., General Dynamics and Sara Lee as well as being the Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the University of Chicago. A member of Chicago's Crown family, James' father is billionaire Lester Crown. He earned his BA from Hampshire College in 1976 and his law degree from Stanford in 1980. His family owns the Aspen Skiing Company. - Terry Winograd
Terry Allen Winograd (born February 24, 1946) is a professor of computer science at Stanford University. He is known within the philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence fields for his work on natural language using the SHRDLU program. SHRDLU was written in the years from 1968-70. In making the program Winograd was concerned with the problem of providing a computer with sufficient "understanding" to be able to use natural language.
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