- Myron Scholes
Myron S. Scholes, born in Timmins, Ontario, Canada, on July 1, 1941, is one of the authors of the famous Black-Scholes equation. In 1997 he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for "a new method to determine the value of derivatives". The model provides the fundamental conceptual framework for valuing options, such as calls or puts, and is referred to as the Black-Scholes model, which has become the standard in financial markets globally. - Bernard Arnault
Bernard Arnault (born 5 March 1949 ) is a French businessman. He is the 7th richest person in the world and France's richest person with an estimated net worth of $26 billion US dollars , according to a Forbes report in March 2007. [1] Bernard Arnault is a native of Roubaix , and graduated with an engineering degree from the Acole Polytechnique in 1971 (X1969). In 2007, Arnault was listed among Time Magazine 's 100 Most Influential People in The World. - Lee Shau Kee
Lee Shau Kee (born January 29, 1928 in Shunde, Guangdong) is a property developer and majority owner of Henderson Land Development (HKSE:0012), a property conglomerate with interests in properties, hotels, town gas and internet services. He is currently the second wealthiest person in Hong Kong and Greater China Region, just after Li Ka Shing. According to Forbes' list of billionaires as of 2007, Lee's wealth is estimated to be $17 billion, … - Tyrone Power
William Grattan Tyrone Power known professionally as Tyrone Power was an Irish stage actor, comedian, author, and theatrical manager. Born in Kilmacthomas, County Waterford, Ireland to a landed family he took to the stage achieving prominence throughout the world as an actor and manager. He is said to have purchased the land that would later be occupied by Madison Square Garden, … - Christian Ehrhoff
Christian Ehrhoff (born July 6, 1982 in Moers, West Germany) is a NHL player currently playing defence for the San Jose Sharks. He was drafted 106th overall in the 4th round of the 2001 NHL Entry Draft by the Sharks. He played in Germany until the fall of 2003, and came onto the Sharks without starting in the minor leagues first. He spent the end of the 2003-2004 season and all of the locked-out 2004-2005 season with the Sharks' minor league affiliate, the Cleveland Barons. - Dayanidhi Maran
Dayanidhi Maran (born December 5, 1966, Kumbakonam, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India) is a member of parliament in India’s 14th Lok Sabha from Madras Central constituency. Till May 2007 he was Minister of Communications and IT in the Union Cabinet. He is the son of Late Mr.Murasoli Maran and the grandnephew of DMK president M Karunanidhi. He is the younger brother of Kalanidhi Maran, the founder and managing director of Sun Network, … - Hamzah Haz
Hamzah Haz is an Indonesian politician born in Ketapang, West Kalimantan on 15 February 1940. He is the head of the United Development Party (PPP) and served as the ninth Vice-President from 2001 until 2004. He is sometimes known as Dr. Hamzah based on having obtained a Ph.D. from American World University, an internet diploma mill, for $2,500. Hamzah was a newspaper journalist in his home town of Pontianak, on the island of Borneo, … - Marcel Goc
Marcel Goc (pronounced Goch) (born August 24, 1983 in Calw, West Germany) is a NHL player currently playing center for the San Jose Sharks. He was drafted in the 1st round, 20th overall by the Sharks in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft, though he remained in Germany until 2003. He spent all of the 2003-2004 season with the Cleveland Barons, the Sharks' minor league affiliate, but joined the Sharks during the 2004 playoffs. - Scott Richter
Scott Richter (born January 10, 1967) is the CEO of Media Breakaway, formerly known as OptInRealBig.com LLC. He paid $7 million to Microsoft in 2006 in a settlement arising out of a lawsuit alleging illegal spam activities. Richter was listed in the ROKSO top 200 spammers, but his inclusion in the list was deleted in 2005, when Spamhaus acknowledged that Richter and his company had not received any complaints for over a year. - Yang Huiyan
Yang Huiyan (Simplified Chinese:杨惠妍, Traditional Chinese:楊惠妍, born c.1982) is the majority shareholder of Country Garden Holdings and is currently considered the wealthiest person in Mainland China, with a net worth of about $9 billion USD as of April 2007. She is the daughter of Yang Guoqiang, who transferred 70% of Country Garden's shares to her before its IPO. - Jorge Chávez
Jorge Chávez Dartnell, also known as Géo Chávez, was a Franco - Peruvian aviator. At a young age, he achieved fame for his aeronautical feats. He died in 1910 while attempting the first air crossing of the Alps. - Juan Ignacio Chela
Juan Ignacio Chela (born August 30, 1979, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a professional male tennis player from Argentina, and his strongest surface is slow hardcourt, but like all Argentine players he is comfortable on the clay. Chela was suspended by the ATP in 2001 for 3 months and US$ 8,000 for the use of Methyltestosterone during the Cincinnati Masters. On August 9, 2004 he reached his career-high singles ranking of World No. 15. On January 19, 2006, … - Antonio Serrano
José Antonio Serrano Argüelles is a Mexican film director, actor, playwright and screenwriter. He graduated with a degree in Communications from the Universidad Iberoamericana. He also attended the "Royal Weber Academy of Dramatic Art" in England and the "Odin Teatre" of Denmark. He studied with the following directors: Polish Jerzy Grotowsky, French Phillipe Gaullier and Italian Carlos Bosso. - Mark Bell
Mark Bell (born on August 5, 1980 in St. Paul's, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian professional hockey forward currently playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Mark Bell played for four seasons with the Ottawa 67s, and was part of a Memorial Cup championship in 1998-99. He was drafted by the Chicago Blackhawks in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft with the eighth overall pick. Mark was a bronze medalist with Team Canada at the 2000 World Junior championships. - David Goodman
David Goodman is a consultant from Maryland who won a million dollars on the television show, "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire." On how the victory changed his life Goodman says: "Sure, I've bought a car and a house, but otherwise I have the same interests, the same friends, and the same weekly routines." Later in the season, a contestant used Goodman for the lifeline, Phone-A-Friend. Goodman gave the incorrect answer and caused the contestant to go home with $1,000. - Suzy Parker
Cecilia Ann Renee Parker (28 October 1932, Queens, New York - 3 May 2003, Montecito, California) was an American actress and supermodel who became famous under the name Suzy Parker. Parker was born in Queens, New York and raised in San Antonio, Texas. Her elder sister, Dorian Leigh, introduced Suzy to agent Eileen Ford when she was 15. Parker became the "signature face" of Coco Chanel. She was the first to earn $US 200 per hour and $100,000 per year. - Billy Williams
Billy W. Williams is a businessman in Kailua, Hawaii who is currently being sued by Greg Abbott, the Attorney General of the state of Texas, for allegedly sending thousands of spam e-mails to Texas citizens, as well as others across the United States. Abbott claims that Williams' technique involves sending e-mails with innocent-seeming subject lines designed to encourage recipients to open them ("Order confirmation" or "About last night" being two examples). - Rob Davison
Rob Davison (b. May 1, 1980 in St. Catharines, Ontario) is a defenceman for the San Jose Sharks. Davison was selected by San Jose in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft (4th Round, 98th overall) but did not ice for the NHL outfit until the 2002-03 season. Following the trading of Bryan Marchment, the San Jose Sharks recalled defenseman Davison from their AHL affiliate, the Cleveland Barons. At the time Davison had four points and 82 penalty minutes in 42 games with Cleveland. - Shi Zhengrong
Dr Shi Zhengrong (施正荣, born c.1963) is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Suntech Power. According to Forbes Magazine, he is the wealthiest person living in China, with a personal net worth of $2.2 billion US dollars as of March, 2006. He has Australian citizenship. Dr Shi Zhengrong is a Christian. He is a graduate of the University of NSW's School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering. - Rong Zhijian
Rong Zhijian, also often called Larry Yung Chi Kin, is the chairman of CITIC Pacific, a Hong Kong-based conglomerate. According to Forbes Magazine, he is the wealthiest person in mainland China, with a personal net worth of $1.7 billion US dollars as of March, 2006. - Khadaffy Janjalani
Khadaffy Abubakar Janjalani (also transliterated as Khadafy Janjalani, Khadafi Janjalani, and Khaddafi Janjalani) (March 3, 1975-September 4, 2006) was the nominal leader of the Filipino militant group Abu Sayyaf and the leader of one of its factions. Janjalani was also known as Daf or Pek. He was a citizen of the Philippines, a small man at 5'4" and only 120 pounds, with a thin build. - Scott Hannan
Kenneth Scott Hannan (born January 23, 1979 in Richmond, British Columbia) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for the Colorado Avalanche of the National Hockey League. - Hans Rausing
Hans Rausing KBE (born in 1926), a British based Swedish born businessman, is among the world's wealthiest people with a reported net worth, in 2007, of 5.4 billion UK pounds (approx. 11 billion US dollars). He made his wealth from his co-inheritance of Tetra Pak (later Tetra Laval), a company founded by his father Ruben Rausing that is currently the largest packing production company in the world. - Matt Carle
Matthew Carle (born September 25, 1984 in Anchorage, Alaska) is a professional ice hockey player who currently plays defense for the National Hockey League's San Jose Sharks and was voted to the 2006-2007 NHL all-Rookie team. He was drafted by the San Jose Sharks in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft. He was chosen 47th overall in the 2nd round. An all-American star player at the University of Denver, … - Ibrahim Oweiss
Dr. Ibrahim Oweiss is an Egyptian-born American economist, international economic advisor, and professor of economics at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, United States. He coined the influential term "petrodollars" in 1973 to describe the US dollar-denominated income of many oil-rich countries, particularly the OPEC states of the Persian Gulf region. Oweiss is an Associate Professor Emeritus of Economics, … - Jay McCarroll
Jay McCarroll (born 1974) is a fashion designer who gained fame in 2005, when he won during the debut season of the competitive reality show "Project Runway". McCarroll, an openly gay Lehman, Pennsylvania native, is known for his fondness of cowboy hats, which he wears often. According to McCarroll, his first work as a designer was when his sisters were on a school team and he sewed a flag for them. - Larry Yung Chi Kin
Larry Yung Chi Kin(Simplified Chinese: 荣智健) (born January, 1942), also often called Rong Zhijian in mainland China, is the chairman of CITIC Pacific, a Hong Kong-based conglomerate. According to Forbes Magazine, he is one of the wealthiest people in mainland China, with a personal net worth of $2.2 billion US dollars as of March, 2007. Rong was born in Shanghai to a business man Rong Yiren, … - Nkem Owoh
Nkem Owoh is a Nigerian comedian and movie actor. He starred in the 2003 film "Osuofia in London".. The Nigerian "Daily Sun" has described him as a "king of comedy". In 2004 Owoh was one of several actors who was temporarily banned from appearing in movies by Nigeria's Association of Movie Marketers and Producers, who argued that the actors demanded excessive fees and unreasonable contract demands. - Francisco Serrano
Francisco Serrano (born 1983) is a Mexican who made headlines in the United States in 2005, after he was found living inside a Minnesota high school. Serrano attended Apple Valley High School from 2002 to 2003. Then, he and his family moved to Connecticut, where he finished high school. Serrano returned to Minnesota a homeless man, with 200 dollars. He apparently had no set destination when he left Connecticut. Once in Minnesota, he went to his old high school, … - Bruce McNall
His memoir is at its most interesting as he is ascending from humble beginings to a place of wealth and affluence. It's a familiar story, but McNall's tale has a freshness to it. Somehow a coin dealer's evolution into a sports mogule is novel. Oddly, the book loses momentum when the author is shuffled off to jail. I doubt anyone picked up Bruce McNall 's biography to catch a glimpse inside prison life, but his descripion of it is painstaking. - Jay Sarno
Jay Sarno was a Las Vegas business entrepreneur who owned several high-profile hotels. He was the creator of the Caesars Palace hotel and the Circus Circus, and many credit him with being the father of today's more family-oriented Las Vegas. Ironically, although Sarno seemed to believe that Las Vegas could survive with fewer gamblers and more families visiting, he was himself a gambler. His former wife, Joyce Sarno Keys, once declared that, during one day of gambling, … - Bill Holden
Bill Holden (born 1948 in Elgin, Illinois), is a teacher who embarked on a 2,100 miles walk, from Arizona to Chicago, during 2005, hoping to raise $250,000 dollars to be donated to the American Diabetes Association so that a cure for juvenile diabetes can be found. Holden made national headlines with his walk. - Matthew Cox
Matthew Bevan Cox (born July 2, 1969), commonly known as Matthew Cox, also sometimes known as Matthew B. Cox and Matt Cox, is an American felon and con man who has been convicted of conspiracy and grand theft. Cox, also an aspiring author, wrote an unpublished manuscript entitled "The Associates". In the manuscript a character, which was most likely based upon himself, travelled the country committing mortgage fraud. - María Julia Alsogaray
María Julia Alsogaray is an Argentine politician. The daughter of right-wing politician Álvaro Alsogaray, she was elected for Congress in 1983 and became an outspoken defender of free markets during the presidency of Raul Alfonsin. Alsogaray was put in charge of the privatisation of the ENTeL phone company and the SOMISA steel works during Carlos Menem's first term, and was appointed Secretary of the Environment during Menem's second term. - Josh Gorges
Josh Gorges (born August 14 1984 in Kelowna, British Columbia) is a professional ice hockey player currently with the Montreal Canadiens. After going undrafted, Gorges was signed as a free agent by San Jose in 2002. 2005-06 is his first season in the NHL. In 2004-2005, he set the Cleveland Barons record for the fastest goal from the start of a game (20 seconds). He played his junior hockey with the Kelowna Rockets of the WHL, … - Charles Gates Jr.
Charles Cassius Gates, Jr. (May 27, 1921-August 28, 2005) was a businessman and philanthropist. His father, Charles Gates Sr., bought Colorado Tire & Leather for $3,500 in 1911. The company was renamed The Gates Rubber Company in 1919. It became world's largest non-tire rubber manufacturer. Charles Gates Jr. took over in 1961, upon the death of his father. The Gates Corporation continued to grow, diversify, and acquire other companies, including Learjet. - María Asunción Aramburuzabala
María Asunción Aramburuzabala Larregui de Garza, is Mexico's richest woman thanks to her holdings in Grupo Modelo, one of the 10 biggest brewers in the world (best known for the worldwide success of "Corona" beer). Aramburuzabala is the daughter of a Basque immigrant Pablo Aramburuzabala Ocaranza who arrived in Mexico nearly penniless. He was a meticulous saver and investor and tried to pass his talents onto his two daughters, Marisun and her younger sister Lucrecia. - Emil J. Brach
Emil J. Brach (born 1859 - died 1947), got his first major job in Chicago at a candy making company, where he eventually became a very high-income salesman, managing to save up $15,000 to invest in a candy manufacturing company...which failed. He was born in the United States by 1859 to German immigrants. Deciding he could do better on his own, Brach started his own candy store/factory, Brach's Confections in 1904, in Chicago, which rapidly became a success, … - Richard Colbert
Richard Colbert was a prolific spammer based in Miami, Florida, in an area known as "Spam Beach". He would obtain clients' email addresses by searching AOL member profiles for any including phrases such as "business opportunity" or "multilevel marketing", believing them to be small-time salesmen like himself. He would then spam these individuals with offers for his service to spam on their behalf, and reply personally to anyone who responded. - Joe Boot
Joe Boot was an outlaw from Arizona. A farmer by profession, he lived in Globe, east of Phoenix. Boot had been planning a train robbery for a very long time before he actually went ahead with his plans, on May 31, 1899. Six years before the robbery, Joe Boot met Pearl Hart, whom he befriended. Hungry to secure their future but lacking in train robbery experience, it took Boot and Hart those six years to exact a plan.
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