- Cindy Margolis
Cynthia D. "Cindy" Margolis (born October 1, 1965) is an American glamour spokesmodel and actress.
- 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.
- 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 .
- Harry Knowles
Harry Jay Knowles (born December 11, 1971 in Austin, Texas) is an online film critic best known for his movie news and review website, "Ain't It Cool News". He also appears in "Sky Movies News" for Sky Digital, and since April 2006, as the film critic for "Penthouse" magazine.
- Matt Drudge
Matthew Drudge (born October 27, 1966) is an American Internet journalist and a talk radio host. He is best known as the proprietor of the "Drudge Report" website, which attracted national attention when it was the first to break the news of a sexual relationship between a White House intern and President Bill Clinton (the "Monica Lewinsky scandal") in 1998.
- 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.
- Wil Wheaton
Richard William "Wil" Wheaton III (born July 29, 1972) is an American writer and actor. As an actor, he is best known for his portrayals of Wesley Crusher on the television series "Star Trek: The Next Generation" ("ST:TNG"), as Gordie LaChance in the film "Stand By Me", and as prep-school rebel Joseph 'Joey' Trotta in "Toy Soldiers".
- 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, …
- 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", …
- 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
- Asia Carrera
Asia Carrera (born Jessica Andrea Steinhauser on August 6, 1973 in New York City) is a former American pornographic actress.
- 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".
- 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".
- Justine Ezarik
Justine Ezarik (aka iJustine) is a freelance graphic/web designer and video editor based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She appears live 24/7 on the Internet through the use of a wireless webcam and microphone strapped to a baseball cap. She has her own iJustine lifecasting channel on Justin Kan's Justin.tv where she began transmitting her life via the Internet on May 29, 2007. For Asher Moses of "The Sydney Morning Herald" (May 31, …
- 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.
- Paul Robinett
Paul Robinett is a YouTube celebrity better known under his YouTube username renetto. He is 40 years of age. Robinett's videos have attracted over 7.4 million views, and his YouTube channel has over 28,000 subscribers. He is ranked on YouTube's "most subscribed"(29th All Time) list. Robinett first gained notoriety by a video in which he attempted to eat Mentos and drink Diet Coke at the same time. He was nominated for the first YouTube Video Awards.
- Raven Riley
Raven Riley (born September 6, 1986) is an American porn star, appearing online, offline at events, and on DVD. Riley recently won the top spot on Front Magazine's "Top 20 Girls of the Web" and appeared on the March 2007 cover. An Ohioan, Riley debuted online at age 18, and garnered popularity. Since then, she has won several awards for her movies and photos. Raven is of Italian and Native American heritage. Riley regularly updates her personal website with softcore, …
- Michael Arrington
I am the editor of TechCrunch and owner of the TechCrunch Network of blog and podcasting sites.
- Gene Ray
Gene Ray (born Otis Eugene Ray, 2 July, 1927) claims that his writings on "Nature's Harmonic Simultaneous 4-Day Time Cube" describe the ineffable truth of the universe. Often referring to himself as the "Greatest Thinker" and "Wisest Human", Ray has awarded himself a "Doctorate of Cubicism", since his idea has been largely ignored by the scientific community. On account of this, he titles himself "Dr. Gene Ray, Cubic".
- Amanda Congdon
Amanda Congdon, born 1981 in New York City, is the co-producer and host of a weekly vidcast for ABC. She has an independent videoblog, "Starring Amanda Congdon". She is also co-president of Oxmour Entertainment along with Mario Librandi and was the host of Amanda Across America before it concluded.
- Emily Chang
Emily Chang is an award-winning web designer and artist. She is the co-founder and co-principal of Ideacodes, a strategic design firm in San Francisco that she started in 2005 with Max Kiesler, her long-time partner and fellow award-winning web designer. Emily is also the creator of the popular blog and web resource, eHub, a constantly updated list of web applications, services, resources, blogs or sites with a focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, …
- 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.
- 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, …
- Tucker Max
Tucker Max is an American fratire writer known for chronicling his sexual and drunken exploits on his website, Tuckermax.com. The site includes a message board and reportedly clocks 1 million-1.5 million unique visitors each month. While he had previously published two modestly selling books (See bibliography), his latest effort, "I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell" made the Paperback Nonfiction "also-selling" section of the New York Times Best Seller list in both, …
- Jessica Lee Rose
Jessica Lee Rose (born April 26 1987) is an American-born actress from New Zealand who rose to popularity after playing the role of lonelygirl15, a fictional teenage homeschooled character named Bree who appeared in many vlogs on the popular website YouTube. Such videos continue to appear regularly, as the series remains active.
- Lasse Gjertsen
Lasse Gjertsen (born July 19th, 1984) is a Norwegian animator, musician, and videographer known on YouTube as "lassegg". He is best known for his short pieces "Hyperactive" and "Amateur", which string together short clips of video to create a unique form of video akin to stop-motion animation. His "Hyperactive" video has over 10 million views.
- Donal Coonan
Donal Clifford Coonan (born December 15, 1981 in London, England) is the presenter of Channel 4's web show "thisisaknife".
- Neil Cicierega
Neil Stephen Cicierega (born August 23, 1986), also known under the aliases Trapezoid and Lemon Demon, is an Internet personality and artist. He is the creator of many Flash animations, which became popular around 2001. Several of these videos have been watched millions of times. He is now better known for his music, which has also had success online. Cicierega currently lives with his parents and two of his siblings in Kingston, …
- Kate Ground
Kate Ground (born November 22, 1984 in British Columbia, Canada) is the pseudonym for a pornographic model.
- Andy
Senior product manager for online communities at National Public Radio; former big cheese at the Digital Divide Network; itinerant correspondent for Rocketboom; video blogger; travel addict; new dad.
- Caitlin Hill
Caitlin Hill (born September 8, 1988) is a YouTube personality under the name TheHill88. She produces, edits and uploads her videos from her home in Brisbane, Australia. Two of her videos have view counts in excess of 1,000,000: "Re: LonelyGirl: Lazydork is Better Than You" (posted August 17, 2006) and "TheLONELYHill88 - Leaving LA" (posted March 5, 2007).
- 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, …
- 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, …
- The Clone
The Clone is also an outspoken community activist on the subjects of freedom, privacy, and state control. He, in conjunction with the Edmonton 2600 group, organized the Edmonton chapter of 2600 Magazine's Stop the MPAA leafletting drive, and the Edmonton BarWatch/Barlink protests. Being a popular phone phreak has also brought The Clone into a few conflicts with the CRTC and Telus (the local telephone company in his hometown), however, it has also garnered him a number of friends, …
- Jeff Jarvis
JEFF JARVIS is former TV critic for TV Guide and People, creator of Entertainment Weekly, Sunday editor and associate publisher of the NY Daily News, and a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner. He was until recently president & creative director of Advance.net , the online arm of Advance Publications.
- Chris Pirillo
Chris Pirillo (born July 26, 1973 in Des Moines, Iowa) is the founder and maintainer of Lockergnome. He spent two years hosting the TechTV (now known as G4) television program "Call for Help" before parting ways with the company. He also hosted the first annual Call-for-Help-a-Thon on TechTV.
- Heather Armstrong
Heather B. Armstrong born July 19 1975, is an American blogger who resides in Salt Lake City, Utah. She writes under the pseudonym of Dooce. Armstrong explains that "Dooce" came from her inability to quickly spell "dude" during IM chats with her former co-workers. Armstrong was raised a Mormon in Tennessee, and majored in English at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, graduating in 1997. She then moved to Los Angeles, California to work.
- Jason Kottke
Jason Kottke (born September 27, 1973) is an American blogger and former web designer currently living in New York City. He designed the popular Silkscreen font which has become widely used in web design and has won a Lifetime Achievement Award as a blogger.
- Matthew Haughey
Matthew Haughey (born October 10 1972) is an American programmer, web designer, and blogger best known as the founder of the community weblog MetaFilter, where he is known as "mathowie".
- 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.