- Stephen Colbert
Stephen Tyrone Colbert (born May 13, 1964) is an American comedian, satirist, actor and writer, known for his ironic style (particularly in his portrayal of uninformed opinion leaders), and for his deadpan comedic delivery. - 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. - Warren Beatty
Henry Warren Beaty (born March 30, 1937), better known as Warren Beatty, is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning American actor, producer, screenwriter, and director. The Academy Awards honored him with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in 2000, presented by his close friend Jack Nicholson, while in 2004 he received a Kennedy Center Honor. In 2007, he was honored with the Cecil B. Demille Award at the Golden Globe Awards Ceremony. - Robert R. McCormick
Robert Rutherford McCormick (July 30, 1880 - April 1, 1955) was a Chicago newspaper baron and owner of the "Chicago Tribune". His grandfather was "Tribune"-founder and former Chicago mayor Joseph Medill, and his great-uncle was the inventor and businessman Cyrus McCormick. McCormick was born in Chicago. From 1889 through 1893, he lived with his parents in London where his father Robert Sanderson McCormick was a staff secretary to Robert Todd Lincoln. - Robert Hanssen
Robert Philip Hanssen (b. April 18, 1944) is a former American FBI agent who engaged in spying for the Soviet Union and Russia against the U.S. for a period of at least 15 years. He is currently in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day at the Supermax Federal Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado.. Hanssen was arrested on February 18, 2001, at Foxstone Park near his home in Vienna, Virginia, … - David Schwimmer
David Lawrence Schwimmer (born November 12, 1966) is an Emmy-nominated American actor and director, who gained popularity when playing Ross Geller on the American sitcom "Friends". - Jerry Springer
Gerald Norman "Jerry" Springer (born February 13, 1944) is a British-born American celebrity, a former Democratic mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, musician, television personality, and host of the controversial television tabloid talk show bearing his name, "The Jerry Springer Show". He is also the current host of "America's Got Talent". - Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Elizabeth Scarlett Louis-Dreyfus (born January 13, 1961) is an Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG Award-winning American actress and comedian who gained popularity while playing the role of Elaine Benes on the NBC sitcom "Seinfeld" in the 1990s. She currently stars in the CBS sitcom "The New Adventures of Old Christine". - Brad Hall
Brad Hall (born March 21, 1958, Santa Barbara, California) is an American writer and actor, best known as a "Saturday Night Live" news anchor on "Saturday Night News". He was also the creator of the TV series "The Single Guy" and "Watching Ellie". He is married to actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus ("Seinfeld", "Saturday Night Live" and "The New Adventures of Old Christine"), … - Randy Barnett
Randy E. Barnett (born February 5, 1952) is a lawyer, a law professor at Georgetown University Law Center, and a legal theorist in the United States. He writes about the libertarian theory of law and contract theory, constitutional law, and jurisprudence. After attending Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Barnett worked as a prosecutor in Chicago, Illinois. - John Cameron Mitchell
John Cameron Mitchell (born April 21, 1963 in El Paso, Texas) is an American writer, actor, and director. He is best known for his motion pictures "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" and "Shortbus". - R. J. Rummel
Rudolph Joseph Rummel (born October 21, 1932) is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Hawaii. He has spent his career assembling data on collective violence and war with a view toward helping their resolution or elimination. Rummel coined the term "democide" for murder by government, his research claiming that six times as many people died of democide during the 20th century than in all that century's wars combined. - Cloris Leachman
Cloris Leachman (born April 30, 1926) is an Academy Award, nine-time Emmy and Golden Globe winning American actress of stage, film and television. She has won eight primetime Emmy Awards-more than any other female performer-and one Daytime Emmy Award. - Zach Braff
Zachary Israel Braff (born April 6, 1975) is an American television and film actor, director, screenwriter, and producer. During the 2000s, he became known for his role as J.D. on the NBC sitcom "Scrubs". Braff has also starred in several films as well as writing and directing 2004's "Garden State" and selecting and producing tracks for its soundtrack record for which Braff was awarded a Grammy for Best Soundtrack Album in 2005. - Pat Quinn
Patrick J. Quinn (born December 16, 1948) is an American politician from Illinois. A career Democrat, he currently serves as the 45th Lieutenant Governor of Illinois. He was elected in 2002 and took office in 2003. The Governor is Rod Blagojevich. Quinn served as the elected State Treasurer of Illinois from 1991 to 1995. Prior to state service, Pat Quinn worked in Cook County government. - Paul Dana
Paul Dana was an American race car driver in the Indy Racing League. - Dermot Mulroney
Dermot Mulroney (born October 31, 1963) is an American actor. - Michael Wilbon
Michael Raymond Wilbon (born November 19, 1958) is an American sportswriter and columnist. He is a columnist for "The Washington Post", has co-hosted "Pardon the Interruption" on ESPN since 2001, and serves as an analyst for ESPN. - Jeri Ryan
Jeri Ryan 's breakout role was the sexy lead character Seven-of-Nine in the popular television series "Star Trek: Voyager." Her additional television credits include lead roles in the series "Boston Public" and "Dark Skies" and recurring roles in "Two and a Half Men," on the Network, "The O.C." and "Melrose Place." Among Ryan's feature film credits are "Down with Love," "The Kid," "Dracula 2000" and the independent films "Men Cry Bullets" and "The Last Man." - Georgie Anne Geyer
Georgie Anne Geyer (Gamma, Northwestern) - Journalist. She has been a panelist for a 1984 presidential election debate. She is a regular panelist on "Washington Week in Review" and author of several books including a biography of Fidel Castro . Her column on international, domestic, women's affairs, and U.S. foreign policy appears in approximately 120 newspapers in the United States and Latin America. - Bradley Abelow
Bradley Abelow is the State Treasurer of the U.S. State of New Jersey. He was appointed Treasurer by Governor of New Jersey, Jon Corzine and took office on January 23, 2006. In his role as Treasurer, Abelow oversees the New Jersey Department of the Treasury, and its approximately 4,000 employees who work in the eleven divisions and offices of the Department of the Treasury to perform three major functions: Revenue collection and generation, … - Garry Marshall
Garry Kent Marshall (born November 13, 1934) is an American actor/director/writer/producer. - Stacy Blackman
Stacy Sukov Blackman, born in 1971, has been consulting on the Master of Business Administration degree application process since 2001. She has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BS from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Stacy has worked with the admissions committees at both schools, conducting alumni interviews and evaluating applicants. - Marge Piercy
Marge Piercy (born March 31, 1936) is an American poet, novelist, and social activist. Piercy was born in Detroit, Michigan, to a family deeply affected by the Great Depression. She was the first in her family to attend college, studying at the University of Michigan. Winning a Hopwood Award for Poetry and Fiction (1957) enabled her to finish college and spend some time in France, and her formal schooling ended with an M.A. from Northwestern University. - Craig Bierko
American actor Craig Bierko was born on August 18, 1964 in Rye Brook, New York. His parents ran a local community theater, but he wouldn't initially pursue an acting career; he took up journalism at Boston University and later studied at the Northwestern University's School of Speech. He graduated in 1986. He began acting a year after graduation, making his debut in the direct-to-video film Love Note. - Laura Innes
Innes has also stepped behind the camera numerous times to direct episodes of the Emmy-winning drama - including the critically acclaimed 2000 episode in which Kellie Martin 's character, Lucy Knight , was fatally stabbed. For good measure, she has also directed episodes of NBC's popular "The West Wing" (for which she earned an Emmy nomination for directing). - Dale Bumpers
Dale Leon Bumpers (born 12 August 1925) is an American politician who served as Governor of Arkansas from 1971 to 1975; and then in United States Senate from 1975 until his retirement in January 1999. He is member of the Democratic Party. - Juan Cole
John "Juan" Ricardo I. Cole (born October 1952 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American professor of modern Middle Eastern and South Asian history at the University of Michigan. As a commentator on Middle Eastern affairs, he has appeared in print and on television, and testified before the United States Senate. He has published several peer-reviewed books on the modern Middle East and is a translator of both Arabic and Persian. - Elisabeth Bumiller
Elisabeth Bumiller (born May 15, 1956), an American journalist and former White House correspondent for the "New York Times". - Claude Akins
Claude Marion Akins was an American actor (born May 25, 1926, in Nelson, Georgia - died January 27, 1994, in Altadena, California). Powerful in appearance and voice, Akins could be counted on to play the clever (or less than clever) tough guy, on the side of good or bad, in movies and television. He is best remembered as Sheriff Lobo in the 1970s TV series "B.J. and the Bear", and later "The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo", a spinoff series. - Alvin Schwartz
Alvin Schwartz (born April 25 1927, in Brooklyn, New York; died March 14, 1992) was the author of books dedicated to and dealing with topics such as folklore and wordplay, many of which were intended for young readers. He is often confused with another Alvin Schwartz, who wrote Superman and Batman daily comics strips and a novel titled 'The Blowtop'. Schwartz graduated from Colby College and received a graduate degree from Northwestern University. - Clinton Bristow Jr.
Clinton Bristow, Jr. (1949-August 19, 2006) was an American lawyer, academic official, and the sixteenth president of Alcorn State University. A native of Alabama, Bristow was installed as Alcorn's president on August 24, 1995. Under his leadership, the number of students in Alcorn's graduate and professional programs grew by a large percentage. An increase in the number of international students attending Alcorn during Bristow's administration gained national attention. - John Logan
John David Gynn Logan (b. 24 September 1961) is a American screenwriter. Logan grew up between New Jersey, Mississippi and California. He attended Northwestern University, graduating in 1983. He worked as a playwright in Chicago before turning to screenwriting. One of his plays, "Never the Sinner", tells the story of the infamous Leopold and Loeb case. Logan's screenplays include "Bats", "Any Given Sunday", "RKO 281", … - J. A. Adande
Joshua Ade "J.A." Adande (born October 25, 1970 in Los Angeles, CA) is a former sports columnist for the "Los Angeles Times" and a panelist for ESPN's "Around the Horn" and a guest host on ESPN's "Pardon the Interruption". He is also a member of the National Association of Black Journalists. - Rachel Nichols
Rachel Alexander Nichols is an ESPN reporter who covers breaking news and events for SportsCenter and also contributes investigative pieces and human-interest features for SportsCenter and Outside the Lines. Nichols is a regular part of ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown and Monday Night Countdown shows, as well as a regular on ESPN's NBA coverage. She has previously worked for the "Washington Post" and "Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel". - Amanda Congdon
Amanda Congdon, born 1981 in New York City, is the co-producer and host of a weekly vidcast for ABC. She has an independent videoblog, "Starring Amanda Congdon". She is also co-president of Oxmour Entertainment along with Mario Librandi and was the host of Amanda Across America before it concluded. - Paul Lynde
Paul Edward Lynde (June 13, 1926 - January 11, 1982) was an American comedian and actor. A noted character actor, Lynde was well known for his roles as Uncle Arthur on "Bewitched" and Harry McAfee, the befuddled father in "Bye Bye Birdie". He was also the regular "center square" guest on the classic game show, "Hollywood Squares," from 1968 to 1981. - Ana Gasteyer
Ana Kristina Gasteyer (born May 4, 1967) is an American actress and comedian. She is perhaps best known as a cast member of "Saturday Night Live" ("SNL") in the 1990s and early 2000s. Born in Washington, D.C., Gasteyer graduated from Sidwell Friends School and Northwestern University. She got her role on "SNL" due to her experience with the famed Los Angeles improv-sketch comedy group called The Groundlings. - Bob Greene
Bob Greene is an exercise physiologist and certified personal trainer specializing in fitness, metabolism, and weight loss. He's been a frequent guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show and appeared on dozens of national television programs. His first book, Make the Connection: Ten Steps to a Better Body-and a Better Life , the #1 New York Times bestseller he co-authored by Oprah Winfrey , was about how to live a healthier life, and his working with her in her lifelong battle against weight. - Stephanie March
Stephanie Caroline March (born July 23, 1974) is an American actress. March was born to John Abe March IV and Laura Len Irwin in Dallas, Texas, where she attended Highland Park High School, the same high school Angie Harmon (of the original "Law & Order") attended. March was a sophomore when Harmon was a senior. She began performing in plays in high school. In 1996 she graduated from the School of Speech (now School of Communication) at Northwestern University, …
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