- Tila Tequila
Tila Nguyen (born October 24, 1981), best known as Tila Tequila, is an American model, entertainer, and singer residing in West Hollywood, California. She is best known for her appearances in "Stuff", "Maxim", "Time", her role as host of the Fuse TV show "Pants-Off Dance-Off" and her position as the most popular person on MySpace as of April 2006. She was raised in Houston, Texas.
- Star Wars Kid
Ghyslain Raza (born 1988) became widely known on the Internet in May 2003 as the "Star Wars" kid" when a video clip he recorded of himself was leaked online. At the time of his celebrity as an internet phenomenon, he was a high school student in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec.
- Kevin Rose
Robert Kevin Rose (born February 21, 1977 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; better known as Kevin Rose) is best known for founding the social-bookmarking site Digg and as former co-host of the TechTV show "The Screen Savers" (later "Attack of the Show!" on G4) until his departure from the network in May 2005. He attended UNLV for computer science, but dropped out to pursue the 90's tech boom.
- Matt Harding
Matthew "Matt (Mathias)" Harding (born September 27, 1976) is an American video game developer and Internet celebrity known as Dancing Matt for his viral videos that show him dancing in front of landmarks and street scenes in various international locations. Harding has since achieved notoriety through widespread coverage of his travel exploits in major print and broadcast media outlets.
- Paris Hilton
Paris Whitney Hilton is an American celebutante, businesswoman, singer, model, actress, author, and television personality. She is part-heiress to both the Hilton Hotel fortune and the real estate fortune of her father Richard Hilton.
- Cory Kennedy
Cory Kennedy (born 1990, full name Cory Kennedy-Levin) is an American Internet celebrity who became an international style phenomenon in 2006. Labeled an "Internet It girl" by Gawker.com and a "club urchin" by "LA Weekly", her MySpace page has garnered over 7,000 "friends". She was able to parlay her minor celebrity into a career as a fashion model, all before her parents were even aware of what was going on.
- Ellen Feiss
Ellen Feiss (born circa 1987) became an Internet phenomenon after her 2002 Errol Morris-directed television commercial for Apple Computer's Switch campaign grew into a cult hit. In the commercial, the then-14-year-old American high school student complained that her father's Windows PC had broken. Fueling the popularity of the advertisement was the speculation that Feiss was under the influence of illicit drugs during the filming of the commercial, …
- Leslie Hall
Leslie Meritt Hall (born November 15, 1981 in Ames, Iowa) is a rap artist and front-woman for the band Leslie and the Ly's and the operator of what is best described as a "gem sweater museum". Hall first began displaying herself in "strangely glamorous and unflattering ways" while attending Ames High School in Iowa. During her senior year, she entered the homecoming parade, as part of a prom queen campaign, donning a sparkling pink Goodwill gown, a neck brace, …
- Jeffree Star
Jeffree Star (born Jeffrey Steininger on November 15 1985) is an Internet celebrity. Known for his music and his appearance (the male celebrity is a cross-dresser who dubs himself "Queen of the Internet"), he first gained notoriety on the popular social networking website, MySpace, and has since toured with Peaches. A reality show featuring Star is in development. Star is also an in demand Los Angeles make-up artist who has worked with Davey Havok, …
- Andy Samberg
David Andrew J. Samberg (born August 18, 1978 in Berkeley, California), better known as Andy Samberg or Andy, is a stand-up comic and member of comedy group The Lonely Island. Samberg attended Berkeley High School, New York University (NYU) film school, and UC Santa Cruz. He is currently a cast member on Saturday Night Live and has appeared on Premium Blend and "Arrested Development", …
- Leeroy Jenkins
Leeroy Jenkins, sometimes mis-spelled Leroy Jenkins and often elongated with numerous additional letters, is an Internet phenomenon named for a character created in "Ultima Online" and later redone by player Ben Schulz in Blizzard Entertainment's popular MMORPG "World of Warcraft". The character has become popular thanks to a video of the game that circulated around the Internet.
- William Sledd
William L. Sledd (born October 11, 1983 in Paducah, Kentucky) is a video blogger who came to international attention via YouTube, a popular video sharing site. William rapidly gained notoriety with his "Ask A Gay Man" series. Each of his videos regularly achieves in excess of 50,000 views and as of 30 January 2007, his most popular video "Ask A Gay Man: Denim Edition" had attracted over 1,500,000 views), as result of having been a featured video by YouTube.
- Cindy Margolis
Cynthia D. "Cindy" Margolis (born October 1, 1965) is an American glamour spokesmodel and actress.
- Jay Maynard
Jay Maynard is a computer programmer and system administrator. He is most famous for his electroluminiscent Tron Guy costume. He became an Internet phenomenon when his costume inspired by the movie "TRON" spread across the net from postings on Slashdot and Fark. Jay's overweight physique and skintight costume was the subject of much derision on the net.
- Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales is an Internet entrepreneur and wiki enthusiast, and founder of the Wikipedia project. Jimmy was born in Huntsville , Alabama in 1966, and is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of Alabama . He worked as Research Director at Chicago Options Associates, a futures and options trading firm then located in Chicago .
- Linus Torvalds
Linus Benedict Torvalds ; born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland, is a Finnish software engineer best known for initiating the development of the Linux kernel. He now acts as the project's coordinator. Linus was inspired by Minix (an operating system developed by Andrew S. Tanenbaum) to develop a capable Unix-like operating system that could be run on a PC. Linux now also runs on many other architectures.
- William Hung
William Hung (Traditional Chinese: 孔慶翔, Simplified Chinese: 孔庆翔, Cantonese Yale: Hung2 Hing3 Cheung4, Pinyin: Kǒng Qìngxiáng) (born January 13, 1983) is an American college student who gained fame in early 2004 as a result of his off-key audition performance of Ricky Martin's hit song "She Bangs" on the third season of the television series "American Idol".
- Mahir Çağrı
Mahir Çağrı. The site was also included in PC Magazine's "The 25 Worst Web Sites" list (September 15 2006). Mahir claimed in various interviews that his personal webpage was hacked, with additions such as "I like sex" embedded into his webpage. The site was originally hosted on the now defunct XOOM web hosting service which advertised Mahir on their front page during the mania. Mahir Çağrı's website was quickly spread through word of mouth on the internet.
- Irina Slutsky
i'm a talker. the good thing is, if i don't know what i'm talking about, i say so. i'm an internet video star. you think i'm kidding? i make a lot of mistakes, and people tell me it all adds up to wisdom some day. my mother died in a car accident from speeding in the rain, so i try to be careful when i drive. but i'm not afraid of death since, well, what can you do about it? i'm getting maudlin' so i'll stop. have a nice day!
- Tom Anderson
Tom Anderson (born October 13, 1975) is the President of the social networking website, MySpace. He founded the site along with CEO Chris DeWolfe. Since newly created MySpace accounts include Tom as a default "friend," he has become known as the face of MySpace. As of Nov 17, 2008, Tom has 250,216,689 "friends". Anderson attended UC Berkeley from 1994 to 1998, UCLA 1999-2001
- Kimbo Slice
Kevin Ferguson aka Kimbo Slice (born c. 1976) is a Miami, Florida-based underground street fighter turned mixed martial arts fighter. He has appeared in several bare-knuckle fights which have spread primarily on the Internet. It is a career Kimbo has since given up and is now putting his efforts towards being a professional mixed martial arts fighter. Slice is currently training with MMA legend Bas Rutten.
- Jenn Sterger
Jennifer "Jenn" Lynette Sterger (born November 29, 1983 in Miami, Florida) is a Florida State University student and online columnist for "Sports Illustrated". Sterger rose to fame after she was shown on national television during the 2005 Florida State-Miami football game.
- Amber Lee Ettinger
Originally from Hazleton Pennsylvania, Amber Lee Ettinger moved around a lot as a child because her dad was in the military, so technically you can call her an Army Brat! Upon graduating from high school she moved to New York City to attend the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her major was Fashion Design, specializing in Intimate Apparel. "FIT was such a great experience for me, I learned so much and at the same time it opened so many doors for me.
- Noah Kalina
Noah Kalina (b. 1980) is a New York City photographer who gained Internet fame for his viral video entitled "everyday". Kalina began taking a photo of himself everyday beginning on January 11, 2000, at age 19. The video, "everyday", shows the photos chronologically, in rapid succession, with an original piano score by musician Carly Comando. Throughout the compilation, Kalina's face, which is always in the center of the video, remains emotionless.
- Esmée Denters
Esmée Denters is a Dutch singer. A poster child for the webcam generation, Denters was first noticed on YouTube in August of 2006 for amateur videos of her singing cover versions of popular songs. By early June of 2007, the then 18 year old had been signed as the first artist on the new Tennman Records label headed by singer Justin Timberlake. At the same time, Tennman Records announced that she would be opening for Timberlake at six venues during his 2007 European tour, …
- Judson Laipply
Judson (Jud) Laipply is an American motivational speaker and comedian from Cleveland, Ohio. He is best known for his performance in the Evolution of Dance clip, which, as of 2007-07-07, is the #1 Most Viewed All Time Video, and #6 Most Discussed Video on YouTube.com. "Evolution of Dance" is the finale to Laipply's show called "Inspirational Comedy". His website describes the show as "combining his thoughts about life and change with humor".
- Christine Dolce
Christine Dolce, also known as "ForBiddeN," is a former cosmetologist turned model who gained fame through social-networking website MySpace. Proclaimed “The Queen of MySpace” by "Vanity Fair" magazine and "The Tyra Banks Show", Dolce rose to fame after joining the MySpace online community shortly after its inception. As MySpace's popularity grew, so did Dolce's.
- Casey McKinnon
Casey McKinnon is a new media producer and actress who was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. She has worked and appeared on three internet TV shows:.
- Henry Earl
Henry Earl (born October 24, 1949) is a homeless man from Lexington, Kentucky famous for his extensive police record, mostly for non-violent alcohol-related offenses. Henry's rise to fame was in large part due to the fact that the Fayette County Jail had a public web site which listed a person's arrest record and mug shots. Henry Earl had an extensive record, and a wide range of emotions expressed in the mug shots, from despondent to happy.
- Ryan North
Ryan M. North (born October 20, 1980) is a Canadian writer and computer programmer who is the creator and author of "Dinosaur Comics", and co-creator of "Whispered Apologies" and "Happy Dog the Happy Dog". North grew up in Ottawa, Ontario where he studied computer science (minor in film) at Carleton University before moving to Toronto for his Master's degree in Computer Science at the University of Toronto, …
- Qian Zhijun
Qian Zhijun, or 钱浚 in Chinese, also known as Xiao Pang, is a Chinese teenager who has become an Internet phenomenon in China since 2003 due to a photograph of himself being superimposed onto a number of celebrities using image editing software. As of November 2006, Qian Zhijun lives in Shanghai, weighs 100kg (apx 220 lbs), is 19 years-old, and works at a gas station.
- Lisa Donovan
Lisa Donovan is an American actress and writer. Her self-produced comedic short films, published under the username "LisaNova", are among the most viewed videos on YouTube. Donovan was a student at the University of Colorado at Boulder before moving to Los Angeles, California in hopes of becoming an actress. There she founded Zappin Productions, a production company specializing in viral videos.
- Vincent Ferrari
Vincent Ferrari is a New York blogger who became famous in 2006 for his dealings with AOL and its customer service.
- Rachelle Waterman
Rachelle Ann Monica Waterman, aka "smchyrocky", (born August 26, 1988) is a teenage girl from Craig, Alaska who was charged with the first degree murder of her mother - though her trial resulted in a hung jury 10-2 in favour of acquittal, and a mistrial was subsequently declared. The case received a wide following on the Internet, partly because Waterman kept a public record of her thoughts and activities on LiveJournal.
- Peter Oakley
Peter Oakley (born August 1927) is a pensioner from England. He is better known by his pseudonym geriatric1927 on the popular video sharing website YouTube. Making his YouTube debut in August, 2006 with a series of five-to-ten minute autobiographical videos entitled "Telling it all", his posts gained immediate popularity with a wide section of the YouTube community, a leading member of the much-heralded Web 2.0 generation of web sites.
- David Elsewhere
David "Elsewhere" Bernal (born August 2, 1979) is a popping dancer from Santa Ana, California. He became known through a viral video clip (Often titled "Kolla2001") of himself dancing to Kraftwerk's song Expo 2000 recorded at the Korean-American talent show Kollaboration in 2001.
- Maria Sansone
Maria Sansone (born February 26 1981 in Erie, Pennsylvania) is the host of "The 9", an internet video show that is currently part of Yahoo! Entertainment. Each weekday Sansone reports on nine of the most interesting things found on the web. Sansone started in television at age eleven when Mike Gallagher of WJET-TV in Erie hired her to host her own children's sport show, "Down to Size". She interviewed Michael Jordan, Bill Cowher, Tommy Lasorda, …
- Jared Smith
Jared Smith is an American amateur singer specializing in Spanish. His singing career achieved some notoriety in the mid-1990s when his brothers Colin and Ian of Freeverse Software combined a recording of his singing with an animated smiley face. The resulting program was intended to be their mother's birthday gift. The two brothers later sent the singing software to their friends, who subsequently passed it to their own friends.
- Somaya Reece
Somaya Reece is a model, actress, photographer, and musician. She was named the number 1 Latina in music next to Shakira and Christina Aguilera in the August 2006 issue of "Maxim en Español" and dubbed a "triple threat" by Latino Entertainment TV. Reece has appeared on "Entourage" and "Girlfriends". She's better known for her MySpace presence where she has over 425,000 (as of jan 11 2007) friends and is the site's #1 Latina.
- Devvo
Devvo is the star of a series of short mockumentaries about chav culture. These are created by the filmmaker and animator David Firth, and can be found on the website Fat-Pie.com. The films are based on the activities of working class British youth, and play on the stereotype that they like to drink high-strength cider in public places, rely on jobseeker's allowance and harass innocent members of the public. These youths are known in parts of the UK as chavs, …