- 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, … - Robert M. Parker Jr.
Robert M. Parker, Jr. (born July 23 1947) is a leading influential wine critic. His 100 point ratings and florid tasting notes define modern American wine criticism, and are a major contributor to the prices for newly-released Bordeaux wine. - Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman, orator and strategist, Churchill was also a soldier in the British Army. He has been studied to a unique extent as part of modern British and world history. - Colin Powell
General Colin Luther Powell, United States Army (Ret.) (born April 5, 1937) is a former American military leader and statesman. He became the first African-American to be confirmed as United States Secretary of State. As the 65th United States Secretary of State (2001-05) under President George W. Bush, Powell became the highest ranking African American government official in the history of the United States. - Nicolas Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy is the current President of France and "ex officio" Co-prince of Andorra. He was elected President of the French Republic on 6 May, 2007 after defeating left wing Socialist Party contender Ségolène Royal during the 2007 election. Before his presidency, he was leader of the UMP right wing party. - Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Jacques-Yves Cousteau was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, scientist, photographer and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the aqua-lung, pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie française. Cousteau was born in Saint-André-de-Cubzac, Gironde, to Daniel and Élisabeth Cousteau. He is generally known in France as "le commandant Cousteau" ("Commander Cousteau"). - Luc Montagnier
Luc Montagnier is a French virologist. In 1982 he was asked for assistance with establishing the possible underlying retroviral cause of a mysterious new syndrome, AIDS, by Dr. Willy Rozenbaum, a clinician at the "Hôpital Bichat" hospital in Paris. Rozenbaum's role was vital, as he had been openly speculating at scientific meetings that the cause of the disease might be a retrovirus, … - Doina Cornea
Doina Cornea is a Romanian human rights activist and professor of the French language. She was notable as a dissident during the communist regime of Nicolae Ceauşescu. Cornea worked as a teacher at Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. In 1980 she published her first "samizdat" book, "Încercarea Labirintului" ("The Test of the Labyrinth"), followed by four other "samizdat" translations (from French). - Just Fontaine
Just Fontaine is a former French football player. He holds the record for most goals scored in a single FIFA World Cup finals tournament, with thirteen in 1958. He has also scored the third most goals of any player in the world cup finals overall, beaten only by: Gerd Müller who scored fourteen goals (in two World Cup tournaments) and Ronaldo who scored fifteen goals (in four World Cup tournaments, though he only played in three). - Sean Connery
Sir Thomas Sean Connery is an Academy Award-winning Scottish actor and producer who is perhaps best known as the first actor to portray James Bond in cinema. He starred in seven Bond films (six EON-produced films, 1962–67 and 1971; and an unofficial Columbia-produced "Thunderball"-remake in 1983). Connery is known for his Scottish accent and rugged good looks. He repeatedly is named as one of the most attractive men alive by magazines, … - Carl Xvi Gustaf Of Sweden
Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden (Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus) (born April 30, 1946) is the current Swedish monarch and head of state of the Kingdom of Sweden. He is the only son of the late Prince Gustaf Adolf (1906-1947) and Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1908-1972). He ascended the throne on September 15, 1973, upon the death of his grandfather, King Gustaf VI Adolf. - Henry Hughes Wilson
Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Baronet, GCB, DSO, (May 5 1864 – June 22 1922) was a British Field Marshal and Conservative Party politician. Wilson was killed by the Irish Republican Army in 1922. Wilson was born in Currygrane, Ballinalee, County Longford, Ireland and was the second son of James and Constance Wilson, of Currygrane. - Robert Darnton
Robert Darnton (born May 10, 1939) is an American cultural historian, recognized as a leading expert on eighteenth century France. He graduated from Harvard University in 1960, attended Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship, and earned a Ph.D. (D. Phil.) in history from Oxford in 1964, where he studied with Richard Cobb, among others. He worked as reporter at The New York Times from 1964 to 1965. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1982, … - Akira Kurosawa
was a prominent Japanese film director, film producer, and screenwriter. His first credited film ("Sugata Sanshiro") was released in 1943; his last ("Madadayo") in 1993. His many awards include the Legion d'Honneur and an Oscar for Lifetime Achievement. - John J. Pershing
John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing (September 13, 1860 - July 15, 1948) was an officer in the United States Army. Pershing is the only person, while still alive, to rise to the highest rank ever held in the United States Army-General of the Armies-equivalent only to the posthumous rank of George Washington. - Audie Murphy
Audie Leon Murphy was an American soldier in World War II, and later became a famous actor, in 44 American films, in addition to being a songwriter. In 27 months of combat action, Murphy became the most decorated United States combat soldier of World War II. He received the Medal of Honor, the U.S. military's highest award for valor, along with 32 additional U.S. medals, five from France, and one from Belgium. - Michel Platini
History: Michel Platini (June 21, 1955, Joeuf, Departement Meurthe-et-Moselle) is a former French football player, widely regarded as one of the most elegant midfielders of his generation. ... - Laure Manaudou
Laure Manaudou (born October 9, 1986 in Villeurbanne) is an Olympic, World and European French champion swimmer. - Jan Smuts
Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, OM, CH, PC, ED, KC, FRS (May 24, 1870 - September 11, 1950) was a prominent South African and British Commonwealth statesman, military leader, and philosopher. In addition to various cabinet appointments, he served as Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa from 1919 until 1924 and from 1939 until 1948. He served as a British Field Marshal in both the First World War and the Second World War. - Edward Henry
Sir Edward Richard Henry,1st Baronet GCVO KCB CSI (26 July, 1850 - 19 February, 1931) was the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (head of the Metropolitan Police of London) from 1903 to 1918. His commission saw the introduction of police dogs to the force (a development which he regarded with good will), but he is best remembered today for his championship of the method of fingerprinting to identify criminals. - Arsène Wenger
Arsène Wenger OBE is a French football manager. He is currently the manager of Arsenal, He is the club's most successful manager in terms of trophies and the club's longest-serving manager in terms of matches played (over 600 as of March 2007). Wenger is the only non-British manager to win the Double in England, having done so in 1998 and 2002. In 2004, he became the only manager in FA Premier League history to go through the entire season without a loss. - Angus Houston
Air Chief Marshal Allan (Angus) Grant Houston, AO, AFC, RAAF, is the Australian Chief of the Defence Force as of 4 July 2005. At the time of his appointment he was Australia's Chief of Air Force, a position he had held since 20 June 2001. - Sharon Stone
Sharon Vonne Stone (born March 10, 1958) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning American actress, producer, and former fashion model. She came to international attention for her performance in the 1992 Hollywood blockbuster film "Basic Instinct". - William Leymergie
William Leymergie is a journalist television producer and host, best known for the French breakfast television news show "Télématin", broadcast on public broadcaster France 2. - Douglas MacArthur
Jean Marie Faircloth (December 28, 1898 in Nashville, Tennessee - January 22, 2000), was a socialite and philanthropist. After attending Ward-Belmont College, Faircloth married MacArthur on April 30, 1937. They remained married until the general's death in 1964. She called him "Sir Boss". In her later years she often gave speeches on her late husband's military career. She died at the age of 101 of natural causes on January 22, 2000 in New York City. - Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (June 4, 1867 - January 28, 1951) was the Commander-in-Chief of Finland's Defence Forces, Marshal of Finland, an astute politician and a successful military commander. He was the sixth President of Finland (1944-1946). Mannerheim was born in the Grand Duchy of Finland to a notable Finnish noble family that had migrated during the 17th century to Sweden-Finland from the Netherlands. - Félix Leclerc
Félix Leclerc was a French-Canadian folk singer, poet, writer, actor and "Québécois" political activist. He was born in La Tuque, Quebec, Canada from a family of pioneers in 1914, sixth in a family of eleven children. He began his studies at the University of Ottawa but was forced to stop due to the Depression. Leclerc worked at various jobs before taking jobs as a radio announcer in Quebec City and Trois-Rivières from 1934 to 1937. - Martin Scorsese
Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, writer and producer and founder of the World Cinema Foundation. He is also a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won an Academy Award as well as awards from the Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian American identity, … - Ernest King
Fleet Admiral Ernest Joseph King GCB (November 23, 1878 - June 25, 1956) was Commander in Chief, United States Fleet and Chief of Naval Operations (COMINCH-CNO) during World War II. As COMINCH, he directed the United States Navy's operations, planning, and administration and was a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He was the US Navy's second most senior officer after Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, and the second admiral to be promoted to five star rank. - Lesley J. McNair
General Lesley James McNair (May 25, 1883 - July 25, 1944) was an American Army officer who served during World War I and World War II. - Raymond Kopa
Raymond Kopa, originally Raymond Kopaszewski, is a French former football midfielder, integral to the French national teams of the 1950's. Kopa, born in Nœux-les-Mines, Pas-de-Calais, son of Polish immigrants, began his professional career at 17 with SCO Angers, and was transferred two years later to Stade de Reims, with whom he won French championships in 1953 and 1955. With Reims, he was a finalist in the first European Cup final in 1956, … - Johnnie Johnson
Air Vice Marshal James Edgar "Johnnie" Johnson, CB, CBE, DSO and two Bars, DFC and Bar (9 March 1915-30 January 2001) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot who during World War II shot down 38 Luftwaffe aircraft, thus becoming the British flying ace with the most "kills" during the war. - Nicolae Ceauşescu
Nicolae Ceauşescu (IPA, in English, sometimes (and erroneously)) (January 26, 1918-December 25,1989) was the leader of Romania from 1965 until December 1989. That month, he was placed on trial and convicted for crimes against the state, genocide, and "undermining the national economy." His subsequent execution marked the final act of the Revolutions of 1989. - Charles Boyer
Charles Boyer (August 28, 1899 - August 26, 1978) was a French-American actor who starred in several classic Hollywood films, TV director and TV producer. After moving to the U.S., he became an American citizen. - Sakıp Sabancı
Sakıp Sabancı was a prominent Turkish business tycoon and philanthropist. Born as the second son of a cotton trader, he worked in all the ranks of his father's business without completing the high school. He was the head of Turkey's second largest business conglomerate and 147th richest man on the Forbes list of the world's top billionaires in 2004. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower, born David Dwight Eisenhower was an American General and politician, who served as the thirty-fourth President of the United States (1953–1961). During the Second World War, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944-45. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO. - Frederic Leighton 1st Baron Leighton
Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, PRA (3 December 1830-25 January 1896) was an English painter and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical and classical subject matter. - William Joseph Donovan
Major General William Joseph Donovan, KBE United States Army (January 1, 1883 - February 8, 1959) was an American soldier, lawyer and intelligence officer, best remembered today as wartime head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). He is also widely known as the "father" of today's CIA. - Arturo Uslar Pietri
Arturo Uslar Pietri (May 16,1906 - February 26,2001) Was one of the most prominent Venezuelan figures of the twentieth century. He was a writer and an intellectual, who made important contributions as an educator, journalist, diplomat, politician and government official. - John Pershing
John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing (September 13, 1860 - July 15, 1948) was an officer in the United States Army. Pershing eventually rose to the highest rank ever held in the United States Army-General of the Armies-equivalent only to the posthumous rank of George Washington. Pershing led the American Expeditionary Force in World War I and was regarded as a mentor by the generation of American generals who led the United States army forces in Europe during World War II, …
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