- Charlton Heston
Charlton Heston (October 4, 1924 – April 5, 2008[1][2]) was an American Academy Award-winning film actor. In a long career, Heston was known for playing heroic roles, such as Harry Steele in Secret of the Incas , Moses in The Ten Commandments, Colonel George Taylor in Planet of the Apes and Judah Ben-Hur in Ben-Hur. - Rock Hudson
Rock Hudson (November 17, 1925 - October 2, 1985) was a popular American film and television actor, noted for his splendid, virile looks and most remembered as a romantic leading man during the 1950s and 1960s. Hudson was voted "Star of the Year," "Favorite Leading Man," or any number of similar titles by numerous movie magazines and was unquestionably one of the most popular and well-known movie stars of the time. - Scott Turow
Scott Turow (born April 12, 1949) is an American novelist and author, as well as a practicing lawyer. Turow has written eight fiction and two nonfiction books, which have been translated into over 20 languages and have sold over 25 million copies. Movies have been based on several of his books. - Bobbi Brown
Bobbi Brown (born April 14, 1957) is a makeup artist and CEO of Bobbi Brown Cosmetics. Her products are sold in over 400 stores and twenty countries worldwide. Brown graduated from Emerson College in Boston with a degree in theatrical makeup. Afterwards, she moved to New York City to work as a professional makeup artist. In 1991, she and a chemist released a line of new lipsticks under the brand Bobbi Brown Essentials, which debuted at Bergdorf Goodman in New York City. - Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Henry Rumsfeld (born July 9 1932) is a U.S. politician and businessman, who was the 13th Secretary of Defense under President Gerald Ford from 1975 to 1977, and the 21st Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2006. He is both the youngest (43 years old) and the oldest (74 years old) person to have held the position, as well as the only person to have held the position for two non-consecutive terms, and the second longest serving, … - Judy Biggert
Judith Borg "Judy" Biggert (born August 15 1937 in Chicago, Illinois), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999, representing (map). - Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel (born November 29 1959) is an American politician. He has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing (map), which covers much of the North Side of Chicago and parts of suburban Cook County. Emanuel was chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for the 2006 elections. After the Democratic Party regained control of the House, he was elected as the next chairman of the Democratic Caucus, … - Bruce Dern
Bruce MacLeish Dern (born June 4, 1936) is an Academy Award-nominated American screen actor. Dern is the father of actress Laura Dern and was formerly married to actress Diane Ladd. - Liz Phair
Liz Phair (born Elizabeth Clark Phair on April 17 1967 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. - Ari Emanuel
Ariel "Ari" Emanuel is a prominent talent agent and founder of the Endeavor Agency in Beverly Hills, California. He represents Larry David, Michael Moore, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Mark Wahlberg, among others. His stature in the industry has prompted various homages and parodies over the years, including *Bob Odenkirk's character "Stevie Grant" on The Larry Sanders Show and the character Ari Gold, played by Jeremy Piven, on the HBO television show "Entourage" - Ann-Margret
Ann-Margret (born April 28, 1941) is a five-time Golden Globe Award-winning, Academy Award, Emmy Award and Grammy-nominated American actress, singer and dancer. - Mark Kirk
Mark Steven Kirk (born September 15, 1959) has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 2001, representing (map). - Hal Sparks
Hal Sparks (born Hal Harry Magee Sparks III, September 25, 1969 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an actor, comedian one-time game show host best known for his witty additions to VH1 and the role of Michael Novotny on the American television series "Queer as Folk". His previous claim to fame was hosting E!'s "Talk Soup". In addition to acting, Hal is also the lead singer and guitarist for a rock band, Zero 1 (previously called The Hal Sparks Band). - Charlotte Ross
Charlotte Ross (born January 21, 1968) is an American actress. She starred in "NYPD Blue" as Detective Connie McDowell from 2001 to 2004. She also appeared on "Days of Our Lives" as Eve Baron Donovan from 1987 to 1991. Some of her other television credits include "The Heights", "The Five Mrs. Buchanans", "Drexel's Class", "Married... with Children", "Pauly", "Law & Order", "Trinity", … - Ann Hampton Callaway
Ann Hampton Callaway (born May 30 1959) is a singer, composer, lyricist, pianist, and actress. She is best known for writing and singing the theme to the TV series "The Nanny" and starring in the Broadway musical "Swing!", for which she won the Theater World Award and was nominated for a Tony for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical. She occasionally also performs with her sister Liz Callaway. - Jack Steinberger
Jack Steinberger (born May 25, 1921) is a German-American physicist. He co-discovered the muon neutrino. He won a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988. Steinberger was born in the city of Bad Kissingen in Bavaria, Germany, but left at the age of 13, due to the increasing anti-Semitism of the rising Nazi party. He moved to the United States, where he lived for many years, before moving to Switzerland to work at CERN. - Lili Taylor
Lili Taylor (born February 20 1967) is an American film and television actress. Taylor, the second youngest of six children, was born in Glencoe, Illinois to Marie, a professional babysitter, and Park Taylor, a folk artist and hardware store operator. She grew up in a "warm family environment" and has described herself as being a "tomboy" and "a bit of a searcher" during her childhood. She graduated from New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois, … - John Stossel
John F. Stossel (born 6 March 1947) is a consumer reporter, author and co-anchor for the ABC News show "20/20". His reports, a blend of commentary and reporting, reflect his libertarian political philosophy, his views on economics (largely consistent with those of the Chicago school), and his skepticism of conventional wisdom. In his decades as a reporter, Stossel has garnered 19 Emmy Awards and numerous other honors for his reports, … - Benjamin Nathaniel Smith
Benjamin Nathaniel Smith (1978-July 4, 1999) was a spree killer who targeted members of racial and ethnic minorities in random drive-by shootings in Illinois and Indiana, USA during the weekend of July 4, 1999. - Rainn Wilson
Rainn Dietrich Wilson (pronounced "Rain") (born January 20, 1966) is a two-time Screen Actors Guild Award winning American actor. He is known for his roles as the neurotic Dwight Schrute on the American television comedy "The Office," and Arthur Martin, assistant mortician in HBO's "Six Feet Under". - Jack Ryan
Jack Ryan (born circa 1960) is a Republican from the state of Illinois who was forced to withdraw his Senate candidacy due to an alleged sex scandal involving his ex-wife, actress Jeri Ryan. In the 2004 Illinois Senate race, he ran for the United States Senate, hoping to succeed retiring Republican Peter Fitzgerald. On March 16, 2004, he won the Republican primary, thus pairing him against Democrat Barack Obama. - Al Jourgensen
Al Jourgensen (born October 9, 1958 in Havana, Cuba), is an American musician best known as the founder and frontman of the industrial metal band Ministry. He is sometimes credited as Alain Jourgensen, Alien Jourgensen, Hypo Luxa (his alias as a music producer), Dog, Alien Dog Star and Buck Satan. He is a member and/or founder of several industrial bands, working as a singer, guitarist or keyboard player. - Brad Will
Bradley Roland Will (1970-2006) was a U.S. anarchist, documentary filmmaker and a journalist with Indymedia New York City. He was shot and killed on October 27, 2006 during the teachers' strike in the Mexican city of Oaxaca. - Mary-Claire King
Mary-Claire King (1946-) is an American human geneticist. She is professor at the University of Washington, where she studies the genetics and interaction of genetics and environmental influences on human conditions such as HIV, lupus, inherited deafness, and also breast and ovarian cancer. - Virginia Madsen
Virginia Madsen (born September 11, 1961) is an American actress. She came to fame during the 1980s, having appeared in several films aimed at a teenage audience. During the 2000s, she once again became known after an Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated role in the film "Sideways". - Carlos Bernard
Carlos Bernard Papierski (born October 12, 1962 in Evanston, Illinois), is an American actor, best known for his role as Tony Almeida in "24". - Adam Baldwin
Adam Baldwin (born February 27 1962) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Animal Mother in Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket", and established a cult following as Jayne Cobb in the series "Firefly", and the movie "Serenity". - Charlie Trotter
Charlie Trotter is a Chicago chef and restaurant owner. - Mark Romanek
Mark Romanek (born September 18, 1959) is an award-winning American music video director who has also moved into directing theatrical films. - Kim Milford
Richard Kim Milford (February 7, 1951 - June 16, 1988) was an American movie and stage actor. Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, he grew up in the northern suburbs of Chicago (Winnetka, Illinois), where he went to New Trier High School. His family includes some familiar names from the movie and art world, sister, actress Penelope Milford ("Coming Home" for which she got an Oscar nomination, "Heathers", "The Burning Bed") and brother, Doug Milford, … - Edward Zwick
Edward Zwick (born October 8, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American film director and film producer. He received an A.B from Harvard in 1974. He attended the AFI Conservatory and graduated with an M.F.A. degree in 1975. He has been described as a throwback for his thoughtful filmmaking. - Liz Callaway
Liz Callaway (born April 13, 1961) is an American actress and cabaret singer. Born in Chicago, she is the sister of Ann Hampton Callaway, with whom she sang the theme song for the Fran Drescher comedy series "The Nanny" and has performed in a number of stage acts. Among her stage credits are "Baby" (for which she earned a Tony Award nomination), "The Spitfire Grill" (for which she earned a Drama Desk Award nomination), "Merrily We Roll Along", … - William Christopher
William Christopher (born October 20, 1932) is an American actor who is best known for playing Father Mulcahy on the television series "M*A*S*H" and Private Lester Hummel on "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C." - Michael Alter
Michael Alter is an American businessman who is the president of his own company, the Alter Group, which is as of 2005, one of the nation's ten largest commercial real estate developers. In 2005, he became the principal owner and chairman of the WNBA team: the Chicago Sky. - Penelope Milford
Penelope Milford (born 1948 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an Academy Award nominated American film, stage, and television actress. An alumnus of the Chicago/New York theatrical scene, American actress Penelope Milford struck paydirt with her first film "Coming Home" (1978). Playing Viola Munson, the best friend of Sally Hyde (Jane Fonda), Penelope was nominated for an Academy Award. She did not win, but the strength of "Comnig Home", Ms. - Ralph Bellamy
Ralph Rexford Bellamy (June 17, 1904 - November 29, 1991) was a Tony Award-winning American actor with a career spanning 62 years. - Ann Compton
Ann Compton (b. 19 January 1947) is an American news reporter for ABC News. Compton began her career when an internship through her school, Hollins College (now Hollins University) led to a job reporting for CBS in Roanoke. In 1973, ABC News hired Compton and she reported from New York until December 1974 when she was assigned to the White House. In June 2000, Compton was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame. - Ivan Albright
Ivan Le Lorraine Albright (February 20, 1897 - November 18, 1983) was a magic realist painter and artist, most renowned for his self-portraits, character studies, and still lifes. Ivan Albright and his identical twin Malvin were born near Chicago in North Harvey, Illinois, to Adam Emory Albright and Clara Wilson Albright. Their father was a landscape painter, and came from a family of master gunsmiths, whose original name was "Albrecht". - Michael Peskin
Michael Peskin is an American theoretical physicist. He was an undergraduate at Harvard University and obtained his Ph.D. in 1978 at Cornell University studying under Kenneth Wilson. He was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows from 1977-1980. He is currently a professor in the theory group at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Peskin was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2000. - Jim True-Frost
Jim True-Frost, a.k.a. Jim True, (born July 31, 1966 in Greenwich, Connecticut) is an American stage, television and screen actor. He is most notable for his portrayal of Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski for four seasons on the HBO program "The Wire". A New York-based actor, True-Frost has been an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago since 1989. Prior to that, he was a member of Remains Theater, …
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