- 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, … - Spike Lee
Shelton Jackson Lee (born March 20, 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia), better known as Spike Lee, is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor noted for his films dealing with controversial social and political issues. He also teaches film at New York University and Columbia University. His production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983. - Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Seymour Hoffman (born July 23, 1967) is an Academy Award-winning American actor. - Adam Richard Sandler
Adam Sandler was born on September 9, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York. He has seven brothers. He was always the class clown in school. When Adam Sandler turned 17 years old, at the advice of his brother he tried out for a comedy club. That's how he came to recognize his true talent as a comedian. He started acting in the Cosby Show and then wen on to movies. - Woody Allen
Woody Allen is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. His large body of work and cerebral film style, mixing satire, wit and humor, have made him one of the most respected and prolific filmmakers in the modern era. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, philosophy, psychology, Judaism, … - Peter Lax
Peter David Lax (born May 1, 1926, Budapest, Hungary) is a highly-respected mathematician working in the areas of pure and applied mathematics. He has made important contributions to integrable systems, fluid dynamics and shock waves, solitonic physics, hyperbolic conservation laws, and mathematical and scientific computing, among other fields. Lax was born in Budapest, Hungary, and moved with his parents (Klara Kornfield and Henry Lax) to the United States in 1941. - Howard Cosell
Howard William Cosell, born Howard William Cohen was an American sports journalist on American television. His abrasive personality and tendency to speak his mind, often in erudite terms unusual for a sportscaster, made him, according to one poll, both the most-liked and most-hated television reporter in the country. - Charlie Rose
Charles Peete Rose Jr. (b. January 5, 1942 in Henderson, North Carolina) is an American television interviewer and journalist. Previously a correspondent for "60 Minutes II", he currently hosts the interview show "Charlie Rose" for PBS. - Ma Ying-Jeou
Ma Ying-Jeou (born July 13, 1950 in Kowloon, Hong Kong) is a politician in the Republic of China (Taiwan), a former Justice Minister, former mayor of Taipei, and former chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT). Ma was elected mayor of Taipei in 1998 and re-elected in 2002. He was elected chairman of the Kuomintang by party members on July 16, 2005. - Henry Lee
Dr. Henry Chang-Yu Lee, is one of the world's foremost forensic scientists. Lee was born in Rugao city, Jiangsu province, China, and fled to Taiwan at the end of the Chinese Civil War when he was six. He graduated in 1960 from the Taiwan Central Police College with a degree in Police Science. Lee then began his work with the Taipei Police Department, where he rose to the rank of captain at age 22, the youngest in Chinese history. - David Wain
David Wain (born August 1, 1969 in Shaker Heights, Ohio) is an American writer, director, actor and comedian. He is best known for the feature film "Wet Hot American Summer", the 90s sketch comedy series "The State", and the Comedy Central show "Stella". Wain was a founding member of Stella, along with Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black. - Paul Volcker
Paul Adolph Volcker (born September 5, 1927 in Cape May, New Jersey), is best-known as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve ("The Fed") under United States Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan (from August 1979 to August 1987). - George Reisman
George Gerald Reisman (born January 13 1937) is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Pepperdine University and author of the massive 1,050-page volume "Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics" (1996). He is also the author of an earlier book, "The Government Against the Economy" (1979), contents of which are mostly subsumed in "Capitalism". Reisman was born in New York City and earned his Ph.D. from New York University under the direction of Ludwig von Mises. - Alec Baldwin
Alec Baldwin (born Alexander Rae Baldwin III on April 3, 1958 in Massapequa, New York) is an Academy Award-nominated, Emmy Award-winning and a Golden Globe Award-winning American actor. He is the eldest of the Baldwin brothers, and has starred in many movies and TV shows such as "30 Rock" and is also noted for hosting "Saturday Night Live" 13 times. - Louis Freeh
Louis Joseph Freeh (b. January 6, 1950) was the 10th Director of the F.B.I. He began his career as an agent of the F.B.I., and was later an assistant U.S. Attorney and a U.S. District Court judge. He is now a lawyer in the private sector. - Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal (born March 14, 1947 or 1948) is a Golden Globe Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American actor, writer, producer, comedian and film director. He gained prominence in the 1970s for playing Jodie Dallas on the ABC dramedy, "Soap", and became a Hollywood film star during the late 1980s and 1990s, appearing in the box office successes "When Harry Met Sally..." and "City Slickers". - Bill Duke
Bill Duke (born February 26, 1943) is an American actor and film director. - Paul Levinson
Paul Levinson <small>BA, MA, PhD</small> is an author and professor of communications and media studies at Fordham University in New York City. Levinson's novels, short fiction, and non-fiction works have been translated into twelve languages. As a commentator on media, popular culture, and science fiction he has been interviewed over 500 times on many local, national and international television and radio shows. - Paul Thomas Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson (born June 26, 1970 in Studio City, California) is a two-time Oscar nominated American filmmaker. - Wayne Federman
Wayne Federman (born June 22, 1959) is an American comedian, actor, and writer. He is noted for his numerous stand-up comedy appearances in clubs and on television, his biography of "Pistol" Pete Maravich, and his supporting comedic acting roles in "The X-Files", "The Larry Sanders Show", "Curb Your Enthusiasm", "Legally Blonde", and "50 First Dates". - John Cusack
John Paul Cusack (born June 28, 1966) is an American film actor and writer. - Martha Quinn
Martha Quinn (born May 11, 1959 in Albany, New York) is best known as one of the original video jockeys on MTV (along with Nina Blackwood, Mark Goodman, Alan Hunter, and J.J. Jackson). Prior to joining MTV, Quinn graduated from Ossining High School in 1977 and NYU in 1981. She got the MTV job even though her prior on-camera experience had been limited to a few television commercials. "Rolling Stone" magazine readers selected her as "MTV's Best-Ever VJ" years later. - Donna Murphy
Donna Murphy (born March 7, 1959 in Corona, Queens, New York) is an American stage, film and television actress. She was raised in Hauppauge, Long Island and Topsfield, Massachusetts. She won the first of two Tony Awards for Best Actress, along with a Drama League Award for her portrayal of Fosca in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's "Passion" (televised on PBS' American Playhouse). She was awarded her second Tony and Drama League Awards, … - Kobi Alexander
Jacob "Kobi" Alexander is the former CEO of Massachusetts-based Comverse Technology. Alexander founded Comverse Technology (NASDAQ: CMVT) in 1982 and built it up from a 3-person Israeli startup to employing over 6,000, becoming the leading provider of software and systems for telecommunication companies worldwide. Comverse’s success lead to its inclusion in the NASDAQ 100 and S&P 500 indices. - Larry Silverstein
Larry A. Silverstein (born 1932 in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, New York) is a Jewish American billionaire real estate investor and operator and the head of Silverstein Properties, a real estate development group. Silverstein is also a member of New York University's Board of Trustees. Silverstein is the developer and leaseholder of the World Trade Center towers that were destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. - Clive Davis
Clive Jay Davis (born April 4, 1932) is a Grammy Award winning record producer and a leading music industry executive. From 1967-72 he was the President of Columbia Records, was the founder and president of Arista Records in the late 1970s through late 1990s, founded J Records and is the President of RCA Records as well as J Records and Arista which makes up the RCA Music Group which he runs. In 2004 he was made chairman of the North American division of BMG. - Leonard Peikoff
Leonard S. Peikoff (born October 1933) is an Objectivist philosopher and author. He befriended Ayn Rand in 1951 and became heir to her estate after she died in 1982. In 1985, Peikoff founded the Ayn Rand Institute. - Thomas Lennon
Thomas Lennon III (9 August, 1970) is an American actor, comedian, and writer. - Rick Rubin
Frederick Jay Rubin (born March 10 1963 in Lido Beach, New York) is a multiple Grammy Award-winning American record producer. He is given credit for merging rap and heavy metal (now known as rapcore), as well as the "American series" albums with Johnny Cash. MTV called him "the most important producer of the last 20 years." In addition to being a producer, he is a musician serving as the original DJ of the Beastie Boys, and a head of a record label, … - Brett Ratner
Brett Ratner (born March 28, 1969) is an American film director and music-video director. He is best known as the director of "Red Dragon", the "Rush Hour" series, and "X-Men: The Last Stand". He is also a producer on the Fox drama, "Prison Break". - Meg Ryan
Meg Ryan (born November 19, 1961) is an American actress who specializes in romantic comedies, but has also worked in other film genres. - Bryan Greenberg
Bryan Greenberg (born May 24, 1978) is an American actor, best known for his role as "Jake Jagielski" in the CW Network TV show "One Tree Hill". He currently stars in the ABC drama "October Road". - Chris Columbus
Christopher "Chris" Columbus (born in Spangler, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 1958) is an American filmmaker. - Lamar Alexander
"One of the key ways we can reduce high gas prices is by providing more support for the basic science and research that will help us innovate our way to clean energy independence," said Alexander, who on May 9th in Oak Ridge proposed a new Manhattan Project for clean energy independence. "Research funding through the America COMPETES Act will help us reach the breakthroughs necessary to get us off foreign oil and onto the clean energy technologies that we can produce right here in America. - Stephen S. Roach
Stephen S. Roach is a senior executive with Morgan Stanley, the New York-based investment bank. After being the famously bearish Chief Economist of Morgan Stanley for 16 years, Mr. Roach was promoted and named Chairman of Morgan Stanley's Asia operations in April 2007. - Yolanda King
Yolanda Denise King was the first-born child and first daughter of Coretta Scott King and civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Her younger siblings are Martin Luther King, III, Dexter Scott King, and Rev. Bernice Albertine King. - Bryce Dallas Howard
When he was a child actor, his father was very involved in his career, protecting him from unfair treatment, and being strict with him, (when necessary). As a director, he's known for being versatile and exploring different sorts of movies (e.g.comedy, drama, fantasy, etc.). He was awarded the National Medal of Arts from the National Endowment of the Arts in 2003. - Skeet Ulrich
Bryan Ray "Skeet" Ulrich (born January 20, 1970) is an American actor who stars in the CBS drama "Jericho". - Debra Messing
Debra Lynn Messing (born August 15, 1968) is an Emmy and SAG winning American actress, known for portraying Grace Adler in "Will & Grace" and for appearing in a series of film roles. - Martin Hellman
Martin Edward Hellman is a cryptologist, famous for his invention of public key cryptography in cooperation with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle. Hellman graduated from the Bronx High School of Science. He went on to earn his Bachelor's degree from New York University in 1966, and at Stanford University he earned a Master's degree in 1967 and a Ph.D. in 1969, all in electrical engineering.
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