- Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was the thirty-seventh President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974, and the thirty-sixth Vice President of the United States in the administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961). During the Second World War, he served as a Navy lieutenant commander in the Pacific, before being elected to the Congress, and later serving as Vice President. After an unsuccessful presidential run in 1960, Nixon was elected in 1968. - Charlie Rose
Charles Peete Rose Jr. (b. January 5, 1942 in Henderson, North Carolina) is an American television interviewer and journalist. Previously a correspondent for "60 Minutes II", he currently hosts the interview show "Charlie Rose" for PBS. - Ron Paul
Ronald Ernest Paul (born August 20, 1935) is a 10th-term Congressman from Lake Jackson, Texas, a member of the Republican Party, a physician, and a candidate for the 2008 presidential election. He has represented Texas's 14th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1997 and represented Texas's 22nd district in 1976 and from 1979 to 1985. He earned the nickname "Dr. - Reynolds Price
Reynolds Price (born February_1, 1933, as Edward Reynolds Price) is a American novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist and James B. Duke Professor of English at Duke University. Apart from English literature, Price has had a lifelong interest in ancient languages and Biblical scholarship. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Price was born in Macon, North Carolina and, after attending public schools of his native state, … - Rick Wagoner
George Richard "Rick" Wagoner, Jr. (born February 9, 1953) is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Motors. Rick Wagoner was born in Wilmington, Delaware, and grew up in Richmond, Virginia and graduated from John Randolph Tucker High School. He received a bachelor's degree in economics from Duke University in 1975 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1977. After Harvard, he joined GM as an analyst in the treasurer's office. - Luis von Ahn
Luis von Ahn Named One of Worldâs Top Young Innovators: Technology Review Magazine To Honor Carnegie Mellon Computer Scientist - Elizabeth Dole
Elizabeth Hanford "Liddy" Dole (born July 29, 1936) is an American politician who served in both the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush presidential administrations, and currently serves as a United States senator representing the state of North Carolina. The first woman to represent North Carolina in the Senate, she was elected to the Senate in 2002 for a term ending in 2009. - Melinda Gates
Melinda French Gates (born Melinda Ann French on August 15, 1964) is a former unit manager for several Microsoft products: Publisher, Microsoft Bob, Encarta, and Expedia. In 1994, she married Bill Gates, founder, chairman, and former chief software architect of Microsoft. They have three children: Jennifer Katharine Gates (b. April 1996), Rory John Gates (b. 1999) and Phoebe Adele Gates (b. 2002). Melinda was born and raised in Dallas, Texas, … - Dan Abrams
Dan Abrams (born May 20, 1966) is the chief legal correspondent for NBC News, former host of "The Abrams Report", and the current General Manager of MSNBC. Before joining MSNBC, Abrams was a reporter for Court TV, and he has continued his legal reporting on MSNBC. Currently, Abrams hosts Live with Dan Abrams Monday-Thursday at 9pm. Abrams graduated from Riverdale Country School in 1984, from Duke University, cum laude, with a degree in Political Science in 1988, … - Charlotte Bunch
Charlotte Bunch (b. 1944) she was born in north carolina on october 13th is an American activist, author and organizer in women's and human rights movements. Charlotte Bunch graduated Duke University in 1966 with a B.A. in History and Political Science. She went on to undertake graduate research at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C.. Her studies focussed on education and social change. - Mary Duke Biddle
Mary Duke Biddle (November 16, 1887-June 14, 1960) was an American philanthropist, the daughter of Benjamin Newton Duke, a co-founder with his brother of the American Tobacco Company. Born in Durham, North Carolina, Biddle went on to attend Durham's Trinity College, the institutional predecessor of Duke University, which was named in honor of her family. She graduated in 1907 with a degree in English. - John J. Mack
John J. Mack (1944 -) (born Machoul) is the CEO and Chairman of the Board of investment bank Morgan Stanley. He returned to the company on June 30, 2005 to replace Phil Purcell, who had become CEO after the 1997 merger of Morgan Stanley and Dean Witter, of which Purcell was already CEO. - Kevin Lane Keller
Kevin Lane Keller is the E. B. Osborn Professor of Marketing at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He is most notable for having authored "Strategic Brand Management" (Prentice Hall, 1998 & 2002), a widely-used text on brand management. He has published his research in the "Journal of Marketing", "Journal of Marketing Research", and "Journal of Consumer Research". - 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 Spencer Bassett
John Spencer Bassett was a professor at Duke University (then Trinity College) best known today for initiating the Bassett Affair in 1903. - Edmund T. Pratt Jr.
Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. was the Chairman and CEO of Pfizer Inc. for 20 years. A graduate of the Wharton School of Business, Pratt served as a trustee of Duke University from 1977 to 1988, and is the namesake of Duke's Edmund T. Pratt School of Engineering. In 1987, Mr. - Shelley Moore Capito
Shelley Moore Capito (born Shelley Wellons Moore on November 26 1953) is an American politician. She has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 2001, representing the Second Congressional District of West Virginia (map). The district stretches from the Ohio River in the west to the Eastern Panhandle, which borders with Virginia and Maryland. She is the only Republican in the West Virginia Congressional delegation. - Fred Brooks
Frederick Phillips Brooks, Jr. (born April 19, 1931) is a software engineer and computer scientist, best-known for managing the development of OS/360, then later writing candidly about the process in his seminal book "The Mythical Man-Month". "It is a very humbling experience to make a multi-million-dollar mistake, but it is also very memorable." Brooks received a Turing Award in 1999 and many other awards. Born in Durham, North Carolina, he attended Duke University, … - Clay Felker
Clay Schuette Felker is a magazine editor and journalist who founded New York Magazine in 1968. Born on October 2, 1925, in Webster Groves, Felker went on to attend Duke University, where he edited the student newspaper, "The Chronicle". After graduating in 1951, Felker went on to work as a sportswriter for "Life Magazine". He later worked for "TIME", "Esquire", and the "New York Herald Tribune". - Rex Adams
Rex Adams (born 1926) is a professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, and is currently serving as chairman of the PBS Board of Directors. Adams had previously served as the Dean of the Fuqua School of Business from 1996-2001; before that appointment, he had worked for the Mobil Corporation for 31 years. Adams graduated from Duke magna cum laude in 1962; he was selected for a Rhodes Scholarship that year, … - Nick Rahall
Nicholas Joe "Nick Joe" Rahall II (born May 20, 1949), American politician of Lebanese descent, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing West Virginia's 3rd Congressional District since 1977(map). He is the Dean of the West Virginia Delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives. The district includes much of the southern portion of the state, including Huntington, Bluefield and Beckley. - Larry Klayman
Larry Klayman is the chairman of Judicial Watch and, as a sought-after speaker on the topic of ethics and the need for honest government, is a frequent guest on the Fox News Network and such programs as CNN's Crossfire and ABC's Prime Time Live. - J. B. Fuqua
J.B. Fuqua (pronounced "few-kwa") was a businessman, philanthropist and chairman of The Fuqua Companies and Fuqua Enterprises. Born John Brooks Elam, Jr. in Prince Edward County, Virginia and raised on a small tobacco farm, Fuqua formed a number of successful business conglomerates; and, after listening to WRVA from an early age, pursued his interest in radio by earning his commercial operator's license at age 17. As an adolescent, … - Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler (born October 25, 1941) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. novelist. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Tyler grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, graduated at age nineteen from Duke University, and completed graduate work in Russian studies at Columbia University in New York City. She worked as a librarian and bibliographer before moving to Maryland. In 1963, Tyler married Iranian psychiatrist and novelist Taghi Mohammad Modarressi, with whom she had two daughters, … - Jim Ellis
James Tice Ellis was a computer scientist best known as the co-creator of Usenet. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Ellis grew up in Orlando, Florida. Before developing Usenet, Ellis attended Duke University. He later worked as an Internet security consultant for Sun Microsystems. He was married and had three children when he died of lymphoma in 2001 in Harmony, Pennsylvania. - Scott Schoeneweis
Scott David Schoeneweis [SHOW-en-WEISS] (born October 2, 1973, in Long Branch, New Jersey) is an American left-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball. He plays for the New York Mets. In the four seasons from 2003-06, Schoeneweis allowed only one home run to a lefthanded batter. Lefthanded hitters batted .209, with a .264 slugging percentage and .293 on base percentage, in 227 plate appearances against him in 2005-06. - Annabeth Gish
Though actress Annabeth Gish is not, as has frequently been reported, related to silent-film legend Lillian Gish (she is decidedly not the never-married Lillian's granddaughter!) , Annabeth does have one thing in common with her famous namesake: she began acting at a very early age, and achieved film stardom before she was 20. Born in Albuquerque, Annabeth moved to Cedar Falls, Iowa, when her college-professor dad accepted a position there. - Judy Woodruff
JUDY WOODRUFF , CNN ANCHOR: Welcome. Whether it wants to or not, the Bush administration is being forced by events to take a more active role in the Middle East. It has now become alarmingly clear that unless it's stopped, the violence between Israel and the Palestinians could spread, violence that Secretary of State Colin Powell is already labeling as unbearable. - Jack F. Matlock Jr.
Jack Foust Matlock, Jr. (b. 1929, North Carolina) is a former American ambassador, career Foreign Service Officer, a teacher, a historian, and a linguist. He was a specialist in Soviet Affairs during some of the most tumultuous years of the Cold War, and served as U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987 to 1991. He is a historian of the Cold War and scholar of Russian history and culture. - David Addington
David S. Addington (b. January 22, 1957, Washington, D.C.), is chief of staff and former legal counsel to Vice President Dick Cheney. He was appointed to replace Lewis "Scooter" Libby as Cheney's chief of staff upon Libby's resignation on October 28, 2005. He was described by "U.S. News and World Report" as "the most powerful man you've never heard of". - Robin Hayes
Robert "Robin" Hayes (born August 14 1945) is a Republican Congressman from North Carolina. He has represented the state's 8th Congressional district (map) in the House of Representatives since 1999. The district stretches from Charlotte to Fayetteville. Hayes was born in Concord, North Carolina and still owns a hosiery mill in his hometown. He is a graduate of Duke University. He was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1992 and served two terms. - Fred Chappell
Fred Davis Chappell is an author and poet who teaches at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He was born in Canton, North Carolina and was the Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1997-2002. He attended Duke University. His 1986 novel "Dagon", which was named the Best Foreign Book of the Year by the Academie Française, is a recasting of a Cthulhu Mythos horror story as a psychologically realistic Southern Gothic. - Lenox Baker
Dr. Lenox Baker was an American orthopedic surgeon and athletic trainer at both Duke University and University of Tennessee. The Cerebral Palsy and Crippled Children’s Hospital at Duke is named in his honor. He graduated from the Duke University School of Medicine, where he was later a professor. Baker was inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame in 1983. - Elizabeth Spiers
Elizabeth Spiers (born December 11, 1976), a native of Wetumpka, Alabama, is the founder of Dead Horse Media, which publishes Dealbreaker.com, a gossip site about Wall Street, AboveTheLaw, a gossip site about law, Fashionista, a gossip site about fashion, and Supermogul, a business management site. Spiers left the site abruptly April 19, 2007 citing differences with her partners over launching new properties according to BusinessWeek. - Bob Wise
Robert Ellsworth "Bob" Wise, Jr. (born January 6, 1948) is an American politician. A Democrat, Wise served as the Governor of West Virginia from January 2001 to January 2005. - Daniel Calhoun Roper
Daniel Calhoun Roper (April 1 1867 - April 11, 1943) was a U.S. administrator, particularly under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, born in Marlboro County, South Carolina. His father, John Wesley Roper, was a leader of the Scotch Boys of the Confederate Army. Daniel Calhoun Roper graduated from Duke University (then called "Trinity College") in 1888, and received his bachelor of laws from National University in 1901. - Lee Jones
Lee Jones is the author of "Winning Low-Limit Hold 'em" and a contributor of poker articles to Card Player Magazine. Jones earned his B.S. in Computer Science from Duke University in North Carolina in 1978, and his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland in 1983. From October 2003 to April 2007, Jones worked as the cardroom manager of the PokerStars online poker cardroom. - William Styron
William Clark Styron, Jr. (June 11 1925 - November 1 2006) was an eminent American novelist and essayist. Before the publication of his memoir "Darkness Visible" in 1990, Styron was best known for his novels which included * "Lie Down in Darkness" (1951), which he wrote at age 25; * "The Confessions of Nat Turner" (1967), narrated by Nat Turner, the leader of an 1831 Virginia slave revolt; and * "Sophie's Choice" (1979), … - Sarah Pearson Angier Duke
Sarah Pearson Angier Duke (1856-1936) was a daughter of Malbourne Angier and the wife of Benjamin N. Duke, one of the benefactors of Duke University. She is the namesake of the Sarah P. Duke Gardens. - Jayne Brook
Jayne Brook (born Jane Anderson on September 16, 1962 in Northbrook, Illinois) is an American actress, best known for her role as Dr. Diane Grad on the medical drama "Chicago Hope". She appeared on the series from 1995 to 1999. Brook graduated from Glenbrook North High School in 1978 at the age of 15. She then went on to attend Duke University on scholarship, earning a bachelor's degree in 1982.
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