- Michael J. Fox
Michael J. Fox (born Michael Andrew Fox on June 9, 1961) is an award-winning, Canadian-born film and television actor. His best known roles include Marty McFly from the "Back to the Future" trilogy (1985-1990); Alex P. Keaton from "Family Ties" (1982-1989), for which he won three Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award; and Mike Flaherty from "Spin City" (1996-2000), for which he won an Emmy, three Golden Globes, … - Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II born (May 18, 1920, Wadowice, Poland – April 2, 2005, Vatican City) reigned as the 264th Pope of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of the State of the Vatican City from October 16, 1978, until his death more than 26 years later, making his the second-longest pontificate in modern times after Pius IX's 31-year reign. He is the only Polish pope, and was the first non-Italian pope since the Dutch Adrian VI in the 1520s. - Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. on January 17, 1942) is a retired American boxer and former three-time World Heavyweight Champion and winner of an Olympic gold medal. In 1999, Ali was crowned "Sportsman of the Century" by "Sports Illustrated" and the BBC. Ali was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He was named after his father, Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr., who was named for the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Clay. - Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson is an English writer and the author of several books about beer and whisky. Michael Jackson is known in North America for his show entitled "The Beer Hunter". He has appeared on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" and "Late Show with David Letterman". In 1977, Jackson's book "The World Guide To Beer" was published. - James Parkinson
James Parkinson (April 11, 1755 - December 21, 1824) was an English physician, geologist, paleontologist, and political activist. He is most famous for his 1817 work, "An Essay on the Shaking Palsy", in which he was the first to describe paralysis agitans, a condition that would later be named Parkinson's Disease after him. - Janet Reno
Janet Reno (born July 21, 1938) was the first female Attorney General of the United States (1993-2001). She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on February 11, 1993, and confirmed on March 11. She was the second longest serving Attorney General after William Wirt. - Billy Graham
William Franklin Graham Jr. (born November 7, 1918) is a career evangelist and an Evangelical Christian. He has been a spiritual adviser to multiple U.S. presidents and was number 7 on Gallup's list of admired people for the 20th century. He is a member of the Southern Baptist Convention. - Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 - 30 April 1945) was the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (The Nazi party). He was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, and became FAhrer (leader) [2] in 1934, remaining in power until his suicide in 1945. - Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr, CBE (born 30 September 1921) is a Golden Globe award winning Scottish actress who is best known today for starring in the films "The King and I", "An Affair to Remember" and "From Here to Eternity". Nominated six times for an Academy Award as Best Actress, she never won, but was a recipient of an Academy Honorary Award for a motion picture career that has always represented "Perfection, Discipline and Elegance". - Davis Phinney
Davis Phinney (born July 10, 1959 in Boulder, Colorado) is a former professional road bicycle racer from the United States. Phinney boasts the most race wins in American history and was the first American, riding on an American based team, to win a stage at the Tour de France in 1986. His racing career spanned two decades and include two stage victories in the Tour de France, a USPRO National Road Championship title, … - Booth Gardner
Booth Gardner (born August 21, 1936), an heir to the Weyerhaeuser fortune, was the Governor of the U.S state of Washington between 1985 and 1993. He also served as the ambassador of the GATT. He is a Democrat. Before serving as governor, Gardner was Pierce County Executive. His service was notable for advancing standards-based education and environmental protection. After his retirement, Gardner, a sufferer of Parkinson's Disease, became an advocate of assisted suicide. - Lane Evans
Lane Allen Evans (born August 4 1951) was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 1983 until 2007, representing the 17th District of Illinois. Evans announced that he would not seek reelection in November 2006 and retired at the end of his current term in Congress due to the increasingly debilitating effects of Parkinson's Disease. - Michael Kinsley
Michael Kinsley (born March 9, 1951 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American political journalist, commentator television host and liberal pundit. Primarily active in print media as both a writer and editor, he also became known to television audiences as a co-host on "Crossfire". Kinsley has been a notable participant in the mainstream media's development of online content. - William Langston
Dr. J. William Langston is the founder, CEO, and Scientific Director of the Parkinson's Institute. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Medicine and was formerly a faculty member at Stanford University and chairman of neurology at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, California. Dr. Langston has authored or co-authored over 250 professional publications in the field of neurology, most of which are on Parkinson's disease and related disorders. - Arvid Carlsson
Arvid Carlsson (b. January 25, 1923) is a Swedish scientist who is best known for his work with the neurotransmitter dopamine and its effects in Parkinson's disease. Carlsson won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2000 along with co-recipients Eric Kandel and Paul Greengard. Carlsson was born in Uppsala, Sweden, son of Gottfrid Carlsson, historian and later professor of history at the Lund University, where he began his medical education in 1941. - Jack
Jack Hedley (born John Robert Hedley, Wallsend in 1923) was an English footballer who played for Sunderland AFC between 1950 and 1959. - James Doohan
James Montgomery Doohan (March 3, 1920 - July 20, 2005) was a Canadian character and voice actor best known for his role as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the television and film series "Star Trek". Doohan's characterization of the Scottish Chief Engineer of the Starship "Enterprise" was one of the most recognizable elements in the "Star Trek" franchise. He also made several contributions behind the scenes for the "Star Trek" franchise. - Francisco Franco
General Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892-20 November 1975), commonly abbreviated to Francisco Franco or Francisco Franco Bahamonde, and also known as "Caudillo" or "Generalísimo", was the leader and later formal head of state of Spain from October 1936, and of all of Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975. Franco led a successful military career and reached the rank of General. - Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong (also "Mao Tse-tung" in Wade-Giles;) was a Chinese Marxist military and political leader and philosopher, who led the Communist Party of China (CPC) to victory against the Kuomintang (KMT) in the Chinese Civil War, and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. Mao is also recognized as a poet and calligrapher. Regarded as one of the most important figures in modern world history, … - Jack Anderson
Jackson Northman Anderson (October 19, 1922 - December 17, 2005) was an American newspaper columnist and is considered one of the fathers of modern investigative journalism. Anderson won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his investigation on secret American policy decision-making between the United States and Pakistan during the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971. - George Wallace
George Corley Wallace, Jr. (August 25, 1919 - September 13, 1998), was an American politician who was elected Governor of Alabama as a Democrat four times (1962, 1970, 1974 and 1982) and ran for U.S. President four times, running as a Democrat in 1964, 1972, and 1976, and as the Independent American Party candidate in 1968. He is best known for his pro-segregation attitudes during the American desegregation period, … - Ray Kennedy
Raymond Kennedy (born Seaton Delaval, Northumberland, 28 July 1951) is an English former football player who won every domestic honour in the game with Arsenal and Liverpool in the 1970s. - Margo MacDonald
Margo MacDonald MSP (born 19 April, 1943) is a Scottish politician, a Member of the Scottish Parliament and a former Member of the British House of Commons. - Eugene O'Neill
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was a Nobel-prize winning American playwright. More than any other dramatist, O'Neill introduced American drama to the dramatic realism pioneered by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg, and was the first to use true American vernacular in his speeches. His plays involve characters who inhabit the fringes of society, engaging in depraved behavior, … - Vincent Price
Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 - October 25, 1993) was an American film actor. He is well remembered for his distinctive voice and serio-comic attitude in a series of distinctive horror films, his tall 6' 4" (1.93 m) stature and polished urbane manner made him something of an American counterpart to the older Boris Karloff. - Susan Greenfield
Susan Greenfield read for a first degree at St Hilda's College, Oxford and subsequently worked for a DPhil in the University Department of Pharmacology. She subsequently held post-doctoral fellowships in the Department of Physiology, Oxford, the College de France, Paris and NYU Medical Center, New York, until being appointed in 1985 as University Lecturer in Synaptic Pharmacology and Fellow and Tutor in Medicine, Lincoln College. - Phil Hare
Philip G. "Phil" Hare (born February 21, 1949) is currently the Democratic Congressman representing (map). The district is based in Illinois' share of the Quad Cities area and includes Rock Island, Moline, Quincy, Decatur, Galesburg and part of Springfield. Due to the increasingly debilitating effects of Parkinson's Disease, Lane Evans withdrew from his re-election bid a week after having been renominated in the March 21, 2006 primary, and endorsed Hare, … - Jim Backus
James Gilmore Backus (February 25, 1913 in Cleveland, Ohio - July 3, 1989 In Los Angeles, California) was a radio, television, film actor, character actor, and voice actor. Among his most famous roles are the voice of Mr. Magoo, the rich Hubert Updike III of the Alan Young radio show, Joan Davis' husband (a domestic court judge) on TV's "I Married Joan", James Dean's father in "Rebel Without a Cause", … - Pauline Kael
Pauline Kael (June 19, 1919 - September 3, 2001) was a Jewish-American film critic who wrote for "The New Yorker" magazine from 1968 to 1991. She was known for her "witty, biting, highly opinionated, and sharply focused" movie reviews. She approached movies emotionally, with a strongly colloquial writing style. - Mervyn Peake
Mervyn Laurence Peake was an English modernist writer, artist, poet and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the "Gormenghast" books, though the "Titus" books would be more accurate: the three works that exist were the beginning of what Peake conceived as a lengthy cycle, following his protagonist Titus Groan from cradle to grave, but Peake's untimely death prevented completion of the cycle, … - Barbara Thompson
Barbara Thompson MBE (born Barbara Gracey, 27 July 1944 in Oxford, England) is a jazz saxophonist, flutist and composer. Since 1967, she has been married to drummer Jon Hiseman. She studied clarinet, flute, piano and classical composition at the Royal College of Music, but the music of Duke Ellington and John Coltrane made her shift her interests to jazz and saxophone. Around 1975, she was involved in the foundation of two bands: *the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble, … - Donald Calne
Donald Brian Calne (born 1936) is a Canadian neurologist who is a leading Parkinson's disease researcher. He was the first researcher who used synthetic dopamine to treat Parkinson's disease. He has shown that latent damage occurs in the brain even before the symptoms of Parkinson's disease appears. Born in London, England, he received his Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Medicine degrees from Oxford University. - Arthur Koestler
Arthur Koestler (September 5, 1905, Budapest - March 3, 1983, London) was a Hungarian polymath who became a naturalized British subject. He wrote journalism, novels, social philosophy, and books on scientific subjects. In 1931, he joined the Communist Party of Germany, but left the party seven years later, after emigrating to the United Kingdom. By the late 1940s, he was one of the most recognized and outspoken British anti-communists, … - John Betjeman
Sir John Betjeman CBE (28 August, 1906 - 19 May, 1984) was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in "Who's Who" as a "poet and hack". He was born to a middle-class family in Edwardian Hampstead. Although he claimed he failed his degree at Oxford University, his early ability in writing poetry and interest in architecture supported him throughout his life. - Michael Redgrave
Sir Michael Scudamore Redgrave CBE (March 20, 1908—March 21, 1985) was an English actor of great renown. Redgrave was born in Bristol, the son of the silent film actor Roy Redgrave and the actress Margaret Scudamore. He never knew his father, who left when Michael was only six months old, to pursue a career in Australia. His mother remarried Captain James Anderson, a wealthy tea planter, but he hated his step-father. - George A. Ricaurte
George A. Ricaurte is a controversial neurology researcher who works at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in the Department of Neurology. He received his MD from Northwestern University Medical School and his Ph.D. (Pharmacology) from the University of Chicago. His research focuses on Parkinson's disease and other movement disorders. His work centers on amphetamine-type stimulants and their potential to damage brain monoamine-containing neurons. - Don Chipp
Donald Leslie Chipp (21 August 1925 - 28 August 2006) was an Australian politician, and founder of the Australian Democrats. - Salvador Dalí
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domènech, Marquis of Pubol (May 11 1904 – January 23 1989), was a Spanish surrealist painter. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking, bizarre, and beautiful images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best known work, "The Persistence of Memory", was completed in 1931. - Enoch Powell
John Enoch Powell, MBE (June 16 1912 - February 8 1998) was a British politician, linguist, writer, academic, soldier and poet. He was a Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) between 1950 and February 1974, and an Ulster Unionist MP between October 1974 and 1987. Controversial throughout his career, his tenure in senior office was brief. He held strong and distinctive views on issues such as race, national identity, immigration, monetary policy, … - John Parkinson
John Parkinson (1567-1650) was the last of the great English herbalists and almost the first of the great English botanists, for he was "apothecary" to James I, and a charter member of the Society of Apothecaries in December 1617, and on the committee that published their "London Pharmacopoeia", 1618. Then, on the cusp of the new science, …
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