- John Hay
John Milton Hay was an American statesman, diplomat, author, journalist, and private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln. - Charles Evans Hughes
Charles Evans Hughes (April 11, 1862 - August 27, 1948) was Governor of New York, United States Secretary of State, Associate Justice and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. - John D. Rockefeller Jr.
John Davison Rockefeller Jr. (29 January 1874 - 11 May 1960) was a major philanthropist and a pivotal member of the prominent Rockefeller family. He was the sole son and scion of the billionaire Standard Oil industrialist, John D. Rockefeller and the father of the five famous Rockefeller brothers. In biographies, he was invariably referred to as "Junior" to distinguish him from his more celebrated father, known as "Senior". - Lincoln Chafee
Lincoln Davenport Chafee (born March 26, 1953) is a former United States Senator from Rhode Island. He lost his re-election bid in 2006 to Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse. He has recently indicated that he is thinking of leaving the Republican Party. He is currently a visiting scholar at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies. A Rhode Island native educated at Phillips Academy and Brown, … - Ted Turner
Robert Edward Turner III (born in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is best known as the founder of the cable television network CNN, the first dedicated 24-hour cable news channel. In addition to CNN, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television. As a philanthropist, he is well known for his $1 billion pledge to the United Nations donated through his United Nations Foundation. - John Guttag
John Guttag is a Professor in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He has served as that department's Associate Department Head for Computer Science. In January, he will become Department Head. He also heads the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science's Software Devices and Systems Group. This group does research in the areas of computer networks, computer and communications security, and wireless communications. - Ze Frank
Ze Frank (born Hosea Jan Frank on March 31, 1972, first name, rhymes with "say") is an online performance artist, composer, humorist and public speaker based in Brooklyn, New York. - E. Howard Hunt
Everette Howard Hunt, Jr. (October 9 1918 - January 23 2007) was an American author and spy. He worked for the CIA and later the White House under President Richard Nixon. Hunt, with G. Gordon Liddy and others, was one of the White House's "plumbers" - a secret team of operatives charged with fixing "leaks". Information disclosures had proved an embarrassment to the Nixon administration when defense analyst Daniel Ellsberg sent a series of documents, … - S. J. Perelman
Sidney Joseph Perelman, almost always known as S. J. Perelman (February 1 1904 - October 17 1979), was an American humorist, author, and screenwriter. He is primarily known for his humorous short pieces written over many years for "The New Yorker magazine". - Sullivan Ballou
Sullivan Ballou (March 28, 1829 - July 28, 1861), was a lawyer, politician, and major in the United States Army. He is best remembered for the eloquent letter he wrote to his wife a week before he and his Rhode Island militia fought in the First Battle of Bull Run. __TOC_ - John F. Kennedy Jr.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr., often referred to as John F. Kennedy, Jr., JFK Jr., John Jr. or John-John, was an American lawyer, journalist, socialite and publisher. He was the son of President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and the younger brother of Caroline Kennedy (as well as of the deceased Arabella Kennedy and older brother of the deceased Patrick Bouvier Kennedy). - Bobby Jindal
Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (born June 10, 1971, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a Louisiana politician. Jindal was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives on November 2, 2004, from Louisiana's First Congressional District (map), based in the suburbs of New Orleans. He was re-elected to Congress in the 2006 election with 88 percent of the vote in the 1st district. He intends to be a candidate for Governor of Louisiana in the October 20, 2007 election. - Rory Kennedy
Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy (born December 12, 1968) is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and producer. She is the youngest of the eleven children of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy. Kennedy married Mark Bailey on August 2, 1999. They have three children: Georgia Elizabeth Kennedy-Bailey, born in September 2002; Bridget Katherine Kennedy-Bailey, born in July 2004; and Zachary Corkland Kennedy-Bailey born in July 16, 2007 at 9:47 am, … - Thomas J. Watson Jr.
Thomas John Watson, Jr. (January 14 1914 - December 31 1993) was the president of IBM from 1952 to 1971 and the eldest son of Thomas J. Watson, IBM's first president. He was listed as one of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of the 20th century. - Donald Carcieri
Donald L. "Don" Carcieri (born December 16, 1942) is the Governor of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Politically a centerist Republican, Carcieri has had a varied vocational background, having worked as a manufacturing company executive, aid relief worker, bank executive and teacher. - Sean Altman
Sean Altman (born May 9,1961) is an founder and former lead singer of the singing group Rockapella and a pioneer of the modern a cappella movement. He was a member of Rockapella from its inception in 1986 until he left the group in 1997 to pursue a solo career. He may be best known for Rockapella's role in the popular children's geography gameshow, … - Kenneth Starr
Kenneth Winston Starr (born July 21, 1946) is an American lawyer and former judge who was appointed to the Office of the Independent Counsel to investigate the death of the deputy White House counsel Vince Foster and the Whitewater land transactions by President Bill Clinton. He later submitted to Congress the Starr Report, which led to Clinton's impeachment on charges arising from the Monica Lewinsky scandal. - John Hope
John Hope (June 2, 1868 - February 20, 1936), born in Augusta, Georgia, was an African-American educator and political activist. He was the son of a white father, who was a farmer, and a black mother. Hope graduated from Worcester Academy in 1890, then taught at Brown University. After he graduated from Brown in 1894 he taught at Roger Williams University. In 1897 he married Lugenia Burns Hope, who would become a well-known social reformer. - Charles Colson
Charles Wendell "Chuck" Colson (born October 16, 1931) was the chief counsel for President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973 and was one of the Watergate Seven, jailed for Watergate-related charges. His later life has been spent working with his non-profit organization devoted to prison ministry called Prison Fellowship. Colson is also a public speaker and author. He is founder and chairman of the Wilberforce Forum, which is the "Christian worldview thinking, teaching, … - Maya Keyes
Maya J. Marcel-Keyes, more commonly known as Maya Keyes (born May 23, 1985), is an American political activist and daughter of United States Ambassador Alan Keyes, former Republican presidential, senatorial candidate, and advisor to Ronald Reagan. Despite her staunch conservative upbringing, Marcel-Keyes has been involved with the anarchist and gay rights movements. She also identifies herself as adamantly pro-life. - Alison Stewart
Alison Stewart (born July 4 1966, Glen Ridge, New Jersey) is an American television journalist. Most recently she served as host of "The Most with Alison Stewart" weekdays at 12pm ET on MSNBC. Stewart first gained widespread visibility as a political correspondent for MTV News in the 1990s. Stewart began her broadcasting career at Brown University, where she was the music director for the school's radio station, WBRU. - Hill Harper
Hill Harper (born Francis Harper on May 17 1966) is an American film, television and stage actor. - Horace Mann
Horace Mann (May 4, 1796 - August 2, 1859) was an American education reformer and abolitionist. He was also a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was a brother-in-law to author Nathaniel Hawthorne, since their wives were sisters. - Lisa Loeb
Lisa Anne Loeb (born 11 March, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter and reality television star. In 1994, she had her first hit with the song "Stay (I Missed You)". The song today still remains her biggest hit and most well-known song. Recently, she has moved into other endeavors, such as television. In 2006, she had her own reality TV show on the E! channel. - Julie Bowen
Julie Bowen (born March 3, 1970) is an American film and television actress. - Chris Berman
Christopher (Boomer) James Berman (born May 10, 1955, in Greenwich, Connecticut) is a sportscaster, who anchors "SportsCenter", "Monday Night Countdown", "Sunday NFL Countdown", "Baseball Tonight", "U.S. Open golf", and other programming on ESPN. He joined ESPN a month after its founding and has been with the network since. - Kerry Kennedy
Mary Kerry Kennedy (known as Kerry) was born September 8, 1959, in Washington, D.C., the seventh of the eleven children of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy. She attended Brown University and Boston College Law School. She married Andrew Cuomo, son of former New York Governor Mario Cuomo, on June 9, 1990, in the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C. They separated in 2003 and have since divorced. - Sidney Frank
Frank's first big success with his own company was with Jacques Cardin brandy, a brand he purchased from Seagram in 1979 . In the 1980s , he obtained importing rights to Jägermeister and promoted it heavily, advertising it as the best drink in the world, turning a specialty brand into a mainstream success. In 1997 , he introduced Grey Goose vodka, made in France, and was so successful in promoting it that he sold the brand to Bacardi for $2 billion in June 2004 . - Todd Haynes
Maverick, onetime "New Queer Cinema" director Todd Haynes was born on January 2, 1961, in Encino, California, and has had a controversial career. His 1987 film, "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story" (which chronicles the life of American singer Karen Carpenter using Barbie dolls as actors) caused Richard Carpenter to sue him and was removed from distribution. His 1991 debut, "Poison", based on the writings of Jean Genet, … - Douglas Harriman Kennedy
Douglas Harriman Kennedy (born March 24, 1967 in Washington, D.C.) is the tenth child of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy, named in honor of W. Averell Harriman, a family friend and former governor of New York. He married Molly Elizabeth Stark on August 22 1998 in Nantucket, Massachusetts. They have three daughters: Riley Elizabeth Kennedy, born August 26 1999 in Nantucket, Massachusetts, Mary McCauley, born August 22 2001, and Rowen Francis born in June 2004. - Jeffrey Eugenides
His first novel, The Virgin Suicides , published in 1993, has been translated into 15 languages and made into a feature film. His second novel, Middlesex , received the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, France's Prix Medici, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His latest book, My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro , was published in 2008. - Randall Kroszner
Randall S. Kroszner, Ph.D. (born June 22, 1962) is a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States. He took office on March 1, 2006 to fill an unexpired term ending January 31, 2008. - Doug Liman
Doug Liman (born 1965) is an American film director and producer. Liman began making short films while still in junior high school and studied at International Center of Photography in New York City. While attending Brown University, he helped to co-found the student-run cable television station and served as its first station manager. Liman attended the graduate program at University of Southern California, where he was tapped to helm his first project in 1993, … - Paul Volcker
Paul Adolph Volcker (born September 5, 1927 in Cape May, New Jersey), is best-known as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve ("The Fed") under United States Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan (from August 1979 to August 1987). - Richard Taylor
Richard Taylor (1919-2003) was an American philosopher renowned for his dry wit and his contributions to metaphysics. He was also an internationally-known beekeeper. Taylor took his PhD at Brown University, where his supervisor was Roderick Chisholm. He taught at Brown University, Columbia and the University of Rochester, and had visiting appointments at about a dozen other institutions. His best known book was "Metaphysics" (1963). - Mara Liasson
Mara Liasson (born June 13, 1955 in New York City) is a national political correspondent for National Public Radio, and a regular panelist on "Special Report with Brit Hume" and "Fox News Sunday" on Fox News Channel. She is a graduate of Brown University with a B.A. in American history. During her tenure she has covered four presidential elections -- in 1992, 1996, 2000, and 2004. - Tim Blake Nelson
Tim Blake Nelson (born May 11, 1964) is an American character actor, film director, and singer. - George Lincoln Rockwell
George Lincoln Rockwell (March 9, 1918-August 25, 1967) was a United States Navy Commander and founder of the American Nazi Party. Rockwell was a major figure in the Neo-Nazi movement in post-war United States, and his beliefs and writings have continued to be influential among white nationalists and neo-Nazis. - Wendy Carlos
Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos, November 14, 1939) is an American composer and electronic musician. Carlos is one of the first famous performers of electronic music using synthesizers. - Will Oldham
Will Oldham, a.k.a. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (born 24 December 1970 in Louisville, Kentucky), is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. Prior to adopting his current moniker, he performed and recorded under various permutations of the Palace name, including Palace Brothers, Palace Songs, and Palace Music (1993-1997).
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