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  1. Johnny Grant

    Johnny Grant is a radio personality, television producer and the honorary mayor of Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, which is an unpaid and unelected ceremonial position with no legal status, given that Hollywood is not a city, but rather a district within the City of Los Angeles. The honorary mayor is present at Hollywood community functions, including the unveiling of new stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Grant was born May 1923 in Goldsboro, North Carolina, …

  2. Britney Spears

    The youngest Spears stepped out on her own in 2002 as a cast member of Nickelodeon's All That . After becoming a fan favorite - like former All That stars Amanda Bynes and Nick Cannon - the then 13-year-old got her own series , Zoey 101 , which became the second highest-rated show among tweens, after TV juggernaut American Idol .

  3. Michael Jackson

    Michael Joseph Jackson (born August 29, 1958), commonly known as MJ as well as the "King of Pop", is an American musician, entertainer, and global icon whose successful career and controversial personal life have been a part of pop culture for almost 40 years. Michael Jackson is widely regarded as one of the greatest entertainers and most popular recording artists in history, displaying complicated physical techniques, …

  4. Nicole Kidman

    Nicole Kidman mini-bio : Nicole Mary Kidman is an Academy Award-winning actress, and one of Hollywood's leading actresses. She has also ventured into singing. In 1995, she appeard in To Die For, a satirical comedy that earned her praise from critics and she won a Golden Globe Award for her work in the film. In 2002, Kidman received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Moulin Rouge! and in 2003 she won the Oscar for her work in The Hours.

  5. Halle Berry

    Halle Maria Berry (born August 14, 1966) is an American actress. Berry has received Emmy and Golden Globe awards, and was awarded the Academy Award in 2002 for her performance in "Monster's Ball". She is the only woman of African American descent to have won the award for Best Actress.

  6. Elvis Presley

    Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 - August 16, 1977), was an American singer, musician and actor. He is often known simply as Elvis; also "The King of Rock 'n' Roll", or simply "The King". Presley began his career as one of the first performers of rockabilly, an uptempo fusion of country and rhythm and blues with a strong back beat. His novel versions of existing songs, mixing 'black' and 'white' sounds, …

  7. Johnny Depp

    John Christopher Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning American actor, best known for his frequent portrayals of offbeat and eccentric characters such as the title character in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Ichabod Crane in the film adaptation of Sleepy Hollow.

  8. Frank Sinatra

    Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 - May 14, 1998) was an American jazz oriented popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor. Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid 1940s, being the idol of the 'bobby soxers'. His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

  9. Elton John

    Sir Elton Hercules John CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March, 1947) is a five-time Grammy and one-time Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially in the 1970s. John has sold more than 250 million albums plus hundreds of millions of singles, making him one of the most successful artists of all time.

  10. Marilyn Monroe

    Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 - August 5, 1962), was a Golden Globe Award-winning American actress, singer, model and pop icon. She was known for her comedic skills and screen presence, going on to become one of the most popular movie stars of the 1950s and early 1960s. At the later stages of her career, she worked towards serious roles with a measure of success.

  11. Bob Hope

    Bob Hope, KBE (May 29 1903 - July 27 2003), was an English-born American entertainer who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, on radio and television, in movies, and in performing tours for U.S. Military personnel, well known for his good natured humor and career longevity.

  12. Charlize Theron

    Charlize Theron (born August 7, 1975) is an Academy Award winning South African actress and former fashion model. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in "Monster" (2004). She was first featured in "2 Days in the Valley" (1996), starring alongside such actors and actresses as Danny Aiello and Teri Hatcher.

  13. John Wayne

    John Wayne (May 26, 1907 - June 11, 1979) was an iconic, Academy Award-winning, American film actor. He epitomized ruggedly individualistic masculinity, and has become an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive voice, walk and height. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Wayne thirteenth among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. A Harris Poll released in 2007 placed Wayne third among America's favorite film stars, …

  14. Celine Dion

    Céline Marie Claudette Dion Angélil, OC, OQ, (born March 30 1968) is a Canadian pop vocalist and occasional songwriter. Born to a large, impoverished family in Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion became a young star in francophone Canada after her manager and would-be husband, René Angélil, mortgaged his home to finance her first record.

  15. Jay Leno

    James Douglas Muir "Jay" Leno (born April 28, 1950) is an Emmy-winning American comedian who is best known as the current host of NBC television's long-running variety and talk program "The Tonight Show". He also owns Big Dog Productions, a company that co-produces the show. He earns $30 million per year.

  16. Harrison Ford

    Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor. He is best known for his performances as the tough, wisecracking space pilot Han Solo in the "Star Wars" film series, and the adventurous archaeologist/action hero in the Indiana Jones film series. Ford has also been the star of many high-grossing hits Hollywood blockbusters such as "Air Force One" and "The Fugitive", which have distanced him from his famous Star Wars and Indiana Jones roles.

  17. Eddie Murphy

    Edward "Eddie" Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961, Brooklyn, New York City) is an Academy Award nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and comedian. He was a regular cast member on "Saturday Night Live" from 1980 to 1984, and has worked as a stand-up comedian. He has also enjoyed a minor singing career. Murphy has received Golden Globe nominations for best actor in a comedy or musical for his performances in "Beverly Hills Cop", …

  18. Bruce Willis

    Walter Bruce Willis (born March 19, 1955) is an American actor and singer. He came to fame in the late 1980s and has since retained a career as both a Hollywood leading man and a supporting actor, in particular for his role as John McClane in the "Die Hard" series. Willis was married to actress Demi Moore and they had three daughters before their divorce in 2000 after thirteen years of marriage.

  19. Harrison Ford

    Harrison Ford was an American actor in the silent film era of the 1910s and 20s. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Harrison Ford began acting on stage and made his Broadway debut in 1904. He turned to film beginning in 1915 and moved to Hollywood. He became a leading man opposite early stars such as Constance Talmadge, Norma Talmadge, Marie Prevost, Marion Davies, and Clara Bow. Ford's acting career ended with the advent of talkies.

  20. Ronald Reagan

    Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981-1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967-1975). Reagan was born in Illinois, but moved to Hollywood in the 1930s, where he starred in numerous "B" movies and became President of the Screen Actors Guild. He was a prominent Democrat who supported the New Deal Coalition in the 1940s, and was a leading opponent of Communism in Hollywood.

  21. Johnny Cash

    Johnny Cash was an influential American country and rock and roll singer and songwriter. Cash was the husband of country singer and songwriter June Carter Cash. Cash was known for his deep, distinctive voice, the "boom-chick-a-boom" or "freight train" sound of his Tennessee Three backing band, his dark clothing, and demeanor, which earned him the nickname "The Man in Black." He started all his concerts with the simple introduction "Hello, …

  22. John Lennon

    John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980), was an Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning English songwriter, singer, musician, graphic artist, author and political activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of The Beatles. Lennon and Paul McCartney formed a critically acclaimed and commercially successful partnership writing songs for The Beatles and other artists. Lennon, with his cynical edge and knack for introspection, and McCartney, …

  23. Pierce Brosnan

    Pierce Brendan Brosnan OBE (born May 16, 1953) is an Irish actor and producer best known for portraying James Bond in four films from 1995 to 2002: "GoldenEye", "Tomorrow Never Dies", "The World Is Not Enough" and "Die Another Day". Since leaving the role, Brosnan has gone on to star in films such as "Evelyn" and "Seraphim Falls". In 1996, he also formed, along with Beau St. Clair, …

  24. Drew Barrymore

    Drew Blyth Barrymore is an American actress and film producer, the youngest member of the Barrymore family of American actors. She has her own production company, Flower Films. Barrymore made her screen début in "Altered States" (1980); she made her breakout role two years later in "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial". She quickly became one of Hollywood's most recognized child actresses.

  25. Clint Eastwood

    Clint Eastwood (born Clinton Eastwood, Jr. on May 31, 1930) is an American actor, composer, film director and producer. While his recent work as a director, on films like "Million Dollar Baby" and "Letters from Iwo Jima", is consistently praised by critics, Eastwood is perhaps most famous for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles, …

  26. John Travolta

    John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and singer. He established his career as a leading Hollywood actor with films such as "Saturday Night Fever" and "Grease". Travolta enjoyed a career revival in the 1990s, stemming from his role in "Pulp Fiction".

  27. Dennis Quaid

    Dennis William Quaid (born April 9, 1954) is an American actor.

  28. Paula Abdul

    Paula Julie Abdul (born June 19, 1962) is an American television personality, jewelry designer, multi-platinum selling singer, and Emmy Award-winning choreographer. In the 1980s, Abdul rose from being a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers NBA basketball team to being a sought-after choreographer at the height of the music video era, then to being a Pop-R&B singer with a string of hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

  29. Sylvester Stallone

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  30. Jimi Hendrix

    Jimi Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. Hendrix is considered one of the greatest and most influential guitarists in rock music history. After initial success in England, he achieved worldwide fame following his 1967 performance at the Monterey Pop Festival. Later, Hendrix headlined the iconic 1969 Woodstock Festival before his death in 1970, at the age of 27. A self-taught guitarist, …

  31. Jack Nicholson

    John Joseph Nicholson (born April 22 1937), better known as Jack Nicholson, is an iconic Academy Award winning American method actor known for his often dark-themed portrayals of neurotic characters. Nicholson is one of the greatest actors of all time, having been nominated for an Academy Award 12 times and has won three.

  32. Meryl Streep

    Born on June 22, 1949 in Summit, New Jersey Meryl Streep is said to be the greatest living actress in Hollywood today by the film fraternity and the viewers. Her birth name was Mary Louise Streep . Her father Harry Streep was an executive at a pharmaceutical company and mother Mary was a commercial artist. Her parents were unique while his father loved playing piano her mother was good at singing and she loved singing.

  33. Kevin Spacey

    Kevin Spacey (born July 26, 1959) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor (film and stage) and director. Spacey grew up in California, and began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, before being cast in supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in the early 1990s, culminating in his first Oscar for 1995's "The Usual Suspects", followed by a Best Actor Oscar win for 1999's "American Beauty".

  34. 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, …

  35. Larry King

    Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger on November 19, 1933) is an iconic award-winning American writer, journalist and broadcaster. He currently hosts a nightly interview program on CNN called "Larry King Live", one of the longest running talk shows on air.

  36. Paul Newman

    Paul Leonard Newman (born January 26, 1925) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Cannes Award, and Emmy Award-winning American actor and film director. He is also the founder of Newman's Own, a food company of which all profits and royalties are donated to charity. As of May 2007, these donations have exceeded $220 million USD.

  37. Barbara Walters

    Barbara Jill Walters (born September 25, 1929) is an American journalist, writer and media personality who has been a regular fixture on morning television shows ("Today" and "The View"), evening news magazine ("20/20"), and on "The ABC Evening News", as the first female evening news anchor. Walters was first known as a popular TV morning news anchor for over 10 years on NBC's "Today", …

  38. Ozzy Osbourne

    Ozzy Osbourne (born John Michael Osbourne, December 3 1948 in Aston, Birmingham, England) is the lead vocalist of the pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath, a popular solo artist, and the star of the reality show, "The Osbournes". As a solo artist, Osbourne has sold over 30 million albums in the US, and 75 million albums worldwide. Two albums, "Blizzard of Ozz" (1980) and "No More Tears" (1991), are certified quadruple platinum, …

  39. Jackie Chan

    Chan Kong-Sang, also known as Sing Lung or Jackie Chan SBS, (born on April 7, 1954) is a Chinese actor, director, martial artist, film producer, screenwriter, singer and stunt performer. Chan is one of the best known names in kung fu and action movies worldwide for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, usage of improvised weapons and his innovative stunts.

  40. Charlie Sheen

    Charles Irwin Sheen is a Golden Globe Award-winning and Emmy-nominated Spanish American actor.

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