Clay Aiken

Clay Aiken

male, 30 years old
American Idol, People Magazine Celebrity 100, American Idol Runner-Up, kimmel, From Raleigh, NOrth CArolina, NYTimes
Clay Aiken (born Clayton Holmes Grissom on November 30, 1978) is an American pop singer who began his rise to fame on the second season of the...
Evo Morales

Evo Morales

male, 50 years old
Mestizo, Oruro Department, Orinoca, Native South American, Spanish conquest, Bolivian Gas War…NYTimes
Juan Evo Morales Ayma (born October 26, 1959 in Orinoca, Oruro), popularly known as Evo, is the President of Bolivia, and has been declared to be...
Ken Auletta

Ken Auletta

male
New York Times, NYTimes, Microsoft, American, the new yorker, journalist
Ken Auletta is a U.S. media critic for "The New Yorker" from Brooklyn, New York, who has written over 10 books, several of which have become "New...
David Gelernter

David Gelernter

male, 54 years old
JavaSpaces, Unabomber targets, Yale University, parallel computation, S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook, David Hillel Gelernter…NYTimes
David Hillel Gelernter (b. 1955) is a professor of computer science at Yale University. In the 1980s, he made seminal contributions to the field of...
Jeff Macnelly

Jeff Macnelly

male, deceased (2000)
University of North Carolina, NYTimes, Tribune Media, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni, from the Triangle, North Carolina, Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning winner
Jeffrey Kenneth MacNelly was a three time Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist, the creator of the immensely popular comic strip, "Shoe",...
Mukhtaran Bibi

Mukhtaran Bibi

female, 37 years old
gang raped, general pervez musharraf, North-South Prize, honour killing, Pakistani women's rights activist, NYTimes…New York Times
Mukhtaran Bibi is a Pakistani woman from the village of Meerwala, in the rural "tehsil" (county) of Jatoi of the Muzaffargarh District of Pakistan....
Terry Tempest Williams

Terry Tempest Williams

female, 54 years old
activist, nature writer, American West, From Utah, Utah writer, Great Basin…New York Times, NYTimes
Terry Tempest Williams MS'84 has received the 1995 Governor's Award in the Humanities. The award, given by the Utah Humanities Council, was made to...
Mattie Stepanek

Mattie Stepanek

male, deceased (2004)
New York Times' Best Seller, American child, Death from muscular dystrophy, NYTimes, Good Morning America, the oprah winfrey show…new york times bestseller list
Matthew "Mattie" Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek was an American poet and advocate. At the age of 3, Stepanek started to write poetry to cope with the...
John L. Hess

John L. Hess

male, deceased (2005)
Sailor, Food writer, The New York Times, journalist, My Times A Memoir of Dissent, American…My Times, NYTimes, New York Times
John L. Hess (December 27, 1917 - January 21, 2005) was a prominent American journalist who worked for many years at "The New York Times". He left...
Sim van der Ryn

Sim van der Ryn

male
Solar building designer, University of Michigan, Kew Gardens, great neck, ann arbor, Sustainability advocate…NYTimes
Sim Van der Ryn is acknowledged as a leader in "sustainable architecture." He is also a researcher and educator. Van der Ryn's driving professional...