- Mischa Barton
Mischa Anne Barton (born January 24 1986) is an American actress and fashion model, perhaps best known for her role as Marissa Cooper on the former Fox television teen drama series "The O.C."
- Audrina Patridge
Audrina Patridge is an American reality television star, best known as one of the core cast members, along with Lauren Conrad, Heidi Montag and Whitney Port, on the MTV reality show "The Hills". She has been featured on seasons one and two of the series. Patridge aspires to be a model and actress.
- Milla Jovovich
Milla Jovovich /Milica Jovović, Ukrainian: Мілла Йовович/Mіlla Jovovič (Born Milica Nataša Jovović on December 17, 1975)) is an Ukrainian-born supermodel, actress, musician, singer, and fashion designer. Jovovich has been described by Paul W.S. Anderson, director of her film "Resident Evil", …
- Henry Waxman
Henry Arnold Waxman, born to a Jewish family September 12, 1939, in Los Angeles, California, is an American politician. He has represented (map) in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1975. Waxman, a Democrat, is considered to be one of the most influential liberal members of Congress. He serves the cities of West Hollywood, Santa Monica and Beverly Hills, and parts of the city of Los Angeles.
- Maxine Waters
Maxine Waters (born Maxine Moore Carr on August 15 1938) has served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1991, representing the 35th District of California (map). She resides in South Los Angeles, in the Vermont Square district approximately six miles south of downtown. Her husband, Sidney Williams, is a former U.S. Ambassador to the Bahamas.
- Kirk Kerkorian
Kerkor "Kirk" Kerkorian (born June 6, 1917) is an American billionaire, and president/CEO of Tracinda Corporation, his private holding company based in Beverly Hills, California. Kerkorian is known as one of the important figures in shaping the city of Las Vegas, Nevada and, with architect Martin Stern, Jr. the "father of the megaresort." Kerkorian splits his time between his residences in Beverly Hills and Nevada. One of the richest residents of Beverly Hills, …
- Diane Watson
Diane Edith Watson PhD (born November 12 1933), American politician, has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 2001, representing the 33rd District of California (map). Her district is located entirely in Los Angeles County and includes some wealthy neighborhoods such as Los Feliz. She recently ran unopposed in the 2006 Congressional mid-term elections.
- Xavier Becerra
Xavier Becerra represents California's 31st District in the US House of Representatives and is Vice Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus. He also is Assistant to the Speaker of the House, a position that allows him to help set leadership priorities and drive the legislative decision-making process. First elected to Congress in 1992, Rep. Becerra is a member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, where he served as Chairman during the 105th Congress (1997-98).
- Paul Collins
Paul Collins is an American musician. He was the drummer (and sometime singer & songwriter) in seminal Los Angeles power pop trio The Nerves, one of the first LA pop groups, alongside Jack Lee and future Plimsouls frontman Peter Case. The band are best remembered for "Hanging on the Telephone", a song later made famous by Blondie. After The Nerves' demise, Paul Collins eventually formed his own group as singer, rhythm guitarist, and songwriter for The Beat, …
- Lucille Roybal-Allard
Lucille Roybal-Allard (born June 12 1941), an American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing the 33rd and 34th District of California (map), which includes downtown Los Angeles. She was born in Boyle Heights, California, the daughter of Representative Edward R. Roybal and Lucille Beserra Roybal. She was educated at Ramona Convent Secondary School in Alhambra, California, …
- Bridgette Kerkove
Bridgette Kerkove (born Patricia Lynn Felkel on February 8 1977 in Los Angeles, California) is an American pornographic actress, director and producer. She grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from high school in Burbank. Kerkove began her porn career in January of 1999. Less than a year later she won the 2000 AVN Best New Starlet Award. In 1999, she broke the adult video record for the most sex scenes done in one year, performing in 203 sex scenes in 344 days.
- Thomas Noguchi
Thomas T. Noguchi, born on 4 January 1927 in Japan, is a former Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner for the County of Los Angeles. He served in that position from 1967 to 1982. Known as the "coroner to the stars", he determined the cause of death in many high profile cases.
- Celeste Thorson
Celeste Thorson is an American actress, model, photographer and writer. She is best known for her role as a host in the Destination X Hawaii TV Series and modeling campaigns for Body Glove, Nokia, Yahoo!, BIOQUE, and Paul Mitchell. A political activist Thorson has worked with the Save the Children, Greenpeace, Human Rights Campaign, Public Interest Research Group, and Sierra Club. Along with modeling she's also appeared in several music videos including the Rolling Stones - Rain Fall Down.
- Evan Jacobs
Evan Jacobs (born 1968 in Michigan) is a visual effects supervisor and director. Jacobs has overseen visual effects and served as miniatures supervisor on the feature films such as "Ed Wood", "The Hunt for Red October", "What the #$*! Do We Know?!", and "Resident Evil: Extinction". Jacobs was born in Michigan and moved to California in the early 1970s with his family. He made short films with a camera he received as a gift, …
- Sally Hampton
Sally Hampton (born July 29, 1958 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American writer and film producer currently residing in Los Angeles. She married football player Dave Waymer on June 29, 1981. They divorced in 1986, and Waymer died April 30, 1993 at the age of 34 from a heart attack brought on by cocaine. She is the writer (with Haris Orkin) and producer (with Iain Paterson) of the ABC/Wonderful World of Disney movie "A Saintly Switch" (1999), …
- Fred Plimley
Fred Plimley is President of DK Malaysia Development, LLC and responsible for guiding the strategic direction of the company, business development and day-to-day operations. Fred has successfully created International business strategies affectively presenting Malaysia as the "Gateway" to Asia Pacific and Middle East markets.Other profiles: www.linkedin.com/in/fredplimley - http://www.naymz.com/search/fred/plimley/792293 - http://www.ecademy.com/account.php?id=113481
- Anna Song
Anna Song is an American broadcast journalist who works at KATU in Portland, Oregon. She previously worked at Los Angeles' ABC NewsOne and held an internship at KABC-TV in Los Angeles. Song has won numerous awards in her career, including the 2006 Edward R. Murrow Award in Investigative Reporting. Song won for her piece on Jordaan Clarke, who after undergoing successful heart surgery at Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU) hospital as an infant, …
- Bob Carilli
Robert Carilli President/CEO Medium Click - SEO/SEM
- 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.
- Jennifer Bjorklund
Jennifer Bjorklund is the morning news anchor on KNBC Television in Los Angeles. She co-anchors "Today in LA" with Chris Schauble from 5-7 am and the Channel 4 News at 11am with David Cruz. Bjorklund is KNBC's most prolific anchor with three hours per day on the air.
- Joshua Jackson
Joshua Carter Jackson (born June 11, 1978) is a Canadian actor. He has appeared in American television and films, and is known for his role as Pacey Witter in the television series "Dawson's Creek".
- Carol Normandin
I specializes in the placement of professionals at the C-level and below in the fields of Executive Management, Information Technology, Legal, Sales, Marketing and Human Resources. I provide the opportunity for exceptional executives to build powerful teams that transform their enterprise and fulfill their missions. I also place consultants at start-up firms and the most prestigious large firm.
- Jordan Farmar
Jordan Robert Farmar (born November 30, 1986) is an American professional basketball player and starting point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers. He was previously the starting point guard for the UCLA men's basketball team.
- Ronny Turiaf
Ronny Turiaf (born January 13, 1983 in Le Robert, Martinique) is a French basketball player, selected in the second round (37th pick overall) of the 2005 NBA Draft by the Los Angeles Lakers. He primarily plays power forward, but also sees playing time at center, particularly when the Lakers' regular centers are injured or in foul trouble. His first name is pronounced as rhyming with "pony". Turiaf spent most of his childhood in Martinique, …
- Dan Dickau
Daniel (Dan) David Dickau (born September 16, 1978 in Portland, Oregon) is an American professional basketball player in the NBA with the New York Knicks. Dickau graduated from Prairie High School in Vancouver, WA. He played for the University of Washington Huskies prior to transferring to, and becoming a standout point guard for, the Gonzaga University Bulldogs. He was named a first team All-American his senior year along with future NBA players and teammate Juan Dixon, …
- Corey Maggette
Corey Antoine Maggette (born November 12, 1979 in Melrose Park, Illinois, U.S.) is an American professional basketball player, positioned at small forward for the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers. He excelled at Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Illinois, where he was an All-American in basketball and also an Illinois high school state track finalist in long jump and triple jump.
- Liza Snyder
My television credits include regular roles in "Jesse" and "Sirens," as well as guest-starring roles in "Chicago Hope" and "Murder, She Wrote," both on CBS, and "Down the Shore." I made my feature-film debut in "Pay It Forward." My father was a professor of theater at Smith College and my mother is a singer-songwriter. My maternal grandparents were five-time Oscar-winning composer Johnny Green and actress and consumer reporter Betty Furness.
- Morris Ruskin
Morris Ruskin is an independent film producer and CEO of Shoreline Entertainment. Beginning in the early 1990s, Ruskin has produced a number of films, such as "Glengarry Glen Ross", "The Man From Elysian Fields", "Lakeboat", "Price Of Glory", "Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing & Charm School", and "The Visit". As Vice President of Zupnik Enterprises, he managed productions and obtained financing for a series of independent films, …
- Sheila Kuehl
Sheila James Kuehl (born February 9, 1941 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American politician, and a former child actress. She is currently a Democratic member of the California State Senate, representing the highly urbanized 23rd district in Los Angeles County and parts of southern Ventura County.
- Marvin Hier
Rabbi Marvin Hier (b. 1939 in New York) is the dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, its Museum of Tolerance and of Moriah, the Center's film division. Hier's parents came from Poland; his father worked as a lamp polisher after arriving in New York in 1917. In 1977, following a visit to Holocaust sites in Europe, Rabbi Hier came to Los Angeles to create the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
- Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse (December 31, 1869 - November 3, 1954) was a French artist, noted for his use of color and his fluid, brilliant and original draughtsmanship. As a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but principally as a painter, Matisse is one of the best-known artists of the twentieth century.
- Meg Cranston
Meg Cranston (b. 1960) is an artist who works in sculpture and painting as well as a writer. She has exhibited internationally since 1988. She received and M.F.A in Studio from California Institute of the Arts in 1986 and a B.A. in Anthropology/Sociology in 1982. She also attended the Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht, The Netherlands in 1988. She is on the Faculty at Otis College of Art and Design.
- Adrian Raine
Adrian Raine is a British psychologist. He currently holds the chair of Robert G. Wright Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program at the University of Southern California. He is noted for his research on the neurobiological and biosocial causes of antisocial and violent behavior in children and adults.
- Dennis Haysbert
Dennis Dexter Haysbert (born June 2, 1954) is an American film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for portraying baseball player Pedro Cerrano in the "Major League" film trilogy, President David Palmer on the American television series "24" and Sergeant Major Jonas Blane in "The Unit".
- Stefan M. Pulst
Stefan M. Pulst is a neurologist/neurogeneticist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and professor of medicine and neurobiology at UCLA. He is chair of the science committee of the American Academy of Neurology. His research involves ataxia and other genetic conditions that affect the nervous system. Pulst, Stefan M.
- Steven Lamy
Steven Lamy is a professor of international relations and a past Director of the University of Southern California School of International Relations. Professor Lamy earned his undergraduate degree from Siena College, and his PhD from the University of Denver, specializing in foreign policy analysis. While doing his doctoral work, Steven Lamy studied with future United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Professor Lamy focuses on the foreign policy of Canada, …
- Abner Zurd
Abner Zurd (born in 1962) (aka "Lorraine Fontanes") is a film and documentary maker. Her 'How to Get a Head at Sundance' raised Abner from relative obscurity in 1999. In 2003 Abner ran for office as part of the California Recall election. This led to Abner's release of 'The Day Arnold Schwarzenegger Kicked My Ass', which is set to be screened at Film Festivals in the United States and abroad. Abner currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
- Chris Horodecki
Chris Horodecki (born September 24, 1987 in Poland) is a professional mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter. He is currently fighting for the Los Angeles Anacondas of the International Fight League.
- Dario Frommer
Dario Frommer (born October 22, 1963 in Long Beach, California) was a member of the California State Assembly from 2000 until 2006. He served as Majority Leader from 2004 until 2006. Frommer also served as Chair of the Health Committee. He is now a partner with Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw in Los Angeles. He is currently running to succeed Jack Scott in the State Senate.
- Moustapha Akkad
Moustapha Akkad was a Syrian-American film producer and director, best known for producing the series of "Halloween" films and directing "Mohammad, Messenger of God" and "Lion of the Desert".