- Jesse Jackson
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (born October 8, 1941) is a professional civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988, and is a prominent leader of the American Christian left. He is the father of Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr.
- Jesse Jackson Jr.
Jesse Louis Jackson, Jr. (born March 11 1965) is a member of the United States House of Representatives representing (map). He is the son of activist and former presidential candidate Jesse Jackson.
- Larry Ellison
Lawrence Joseph Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major database software company.
- Robert Novak
Robert David Sanders Novak (born February 26, 1931) is a conservative American political commentator. Over his lengthy career, Bob Novak has become well-known as a columnist (writing "Inside Report" since 1963) and as a television personality (appearing on many shows for CNN, most notably "The Capital Gang", "Crossfire", and "Evans, Novak, Hunt, and Shields"). His memoirs was published in July 2007 entitled 'Prince of Darkness, …
- Steve Chen
Steve Shih Chen (born August 1978 in Taiwan) is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of the popular video sharing website YouTube. Chen grew up in Taiwan until the age of 8, when his family emigrated to the United States. He attended high school at John Hersey High School as well as the Illinois Math and Science Academy and college from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was an early employee at PayPal, where he met Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim.
- Jawed Karim
Jawed Karim (born 1979) is the co-founder of the popular video sharing website YouTube. Karim was born in Merseburg, East Germany in 1979 and moved to West Germany in 1982. His father, Naimul Karim, is a Bangladeshi researcher at 3M. His mother, Christine Karim, is a research assistant professor of biochemistry at the University of Minnesota. Karim grew up in Germany, and his family moved to the United States in 1992. He graduated from Central High School (Saint Paul, …
- Marc Andreessen
Marc Andreessen (born July 9, 1971, in New Lisbon, Wisconsin) is the chair of Opsware, a software company, and cofounder of Ning, a consumer Internet company. He is best known as a cofounder of Netscape Communications Corporation and co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser. In 2005, it was revealed that he is one of the people behind Ning, which recently launched a free "playground" for social software.
- Thomas Siebel
Thomas M. Siebel , Founder and Vice-chairman, Montana Meth Project Thomas Siebel is the Managing Director of First Virtual Group, a diversified holding company based in Palo Alto, CA. Mr. Siebel resides in Woodside, CA and Wolf Creek, MT.
- Roger Ebert
Roger Joseph Ebert (June 18, 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American film critic. He is known for his weekly review column (appearing in the "Chicago Sun-Times" since 1967, and later online, and for the television program "Siskel & Ebert", which he co-hosted for 23 years with Gene Siskel.
- Dee Brown
Daniel (Dee) Brown (born August 17, 1984 in Jackson, Mississippi) is an American professional basketball player. Brown played at the University of Illinois from 2002 to 2006, receiving many awards and accolades. Brown was selected in the second round of the 2006 NBA Draft by the Utah Jazz.
- Dee Brown
Dorris Alexander "Dee" Brown (February 29,1908---December 12, 2002) was an American novelist and historian. His most famous work is "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee", published in 1970, detailing the violent relationship between Native Americans and American expansionism. This work led to further appreciation of the Native American culture by the common American, and caused a new look at the history of the American west, from the Native American point of view.
- Eric Bina
Eric J. Bina (born October 1964) is the co-creator of Mosaic and the co-founder of Netscape. In 1993, Bina along with Marc Andreessen authored the first version of Mosaic while working as a programmer at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Bina attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, …
- Ang Lee
Ang Lee (born October 23, 1954) is a film director from Taiwan.
- Henry Petroski
Henry Petroski (born 1942) is an American civil engineering professor at Duke University where he specializes in failure analysis. He is a prolific author, having written a dozen books - most notably "To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design" (1985) - including a number of titles detailing the industrial design history of common, everyday objects, such as pencils, paper clips, and silverware.
- Edwin G. Krebs
Dr Edwin Gerhard Krebs (born June 6, 1918) is an American biochemist. He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 1989 and, together with his collaborator Edmond H. Fischer, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 for describing how reversible phosphorylation works as a switch to activate proteins and regulate various cellular processes. Krebs was born in Lansing, Iowa, the third child of William Carl Krebs, …
- Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day was an American journalist turned social activist and devout member of the Catholic Church. She became known for her social justice campaigns in defense of the poor, forsaken, hungry and homeless. Alongside Peter Maurin, she founded the Catholic Worker Movement in 1933, espousing nonviolence, and hospitality for the impoverished and downtrodden.
- Iris Chang
Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968 - November 9, 2004) was an American historian and journalist. She was best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, "The Rape of Nanking". She committed suicide on November 9, 2004, after a depressive episode resulting from a nervous breakdown.
- Polykarp Kusch
Polykarp Kusch was a German-American physicist. In 1955 he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics with Willis Eugene Lamb for his accurate determination that the magnetic moment of the electron was greater than its theoretical value, thus leading to reconsideration of—and innovations in—quantum electrodynamics. He received his bachelor's degree in physics in 1931 from the Case Institute of Technology (now Case Western Reserve University).
- Erika Harold
Erika Harold was Miss America 2003 and was the Miss Illinois 2002. Her platform is "Preventing Youth Violence and Bullying: Protect Yourself, Respect Yourself." Her platform is said to have grown out of personal experience; she claims to have been the subject of racial and sexual harassment while growing up. Erika is of Greek, German and Welsh (father) and Native-American, African-American and Russian (mother) descent.
- John Chancellor
John William Chancellor was a well-known American journalist, who spent most of his career associated with the NBC television network. Chancellor was born in Chicago, Illinois, and graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1949. Originally a reporter for the "Chicago Sun-Times", he first started his career in national television news as a correspondent on NBC's evening newscast, the "Huntley-Brinkley Report".
- Max Levchin
Max Levchin (b. 1975) is a Russian-born American computer scientist and entrepreneur widely known as co-founder (with Peter Thiel) and former Chief technology officer of PayPal. Originally from Kiev, Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union), he moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1991. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1997 and co-founded two companies that made Internet-tools, …
- Avery Brundage
Avery Brundage (September 28 1887 - May 8 1975) was an American athlete, sports official, art collector and philanthropist. He has been heavily criticized for decisions he took as a member of the United States Olympic Committee and as president of the International Olympic Committee, many of which would now be classed as racist. Born in Detroit, Brundage studied civil engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, graduating in 1909.
- Andy Richter
Paul Andrew "Andy" Richter (October 28, 1966) is best known for his former role as Conan O'Brien's sidekick on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien". Richter was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan as second of four children and was raised in Yorkville, Illinois, where he was elected Prom King. While attending Columbia College Chicago, he played in several Chicago improv groups, including the Annoyance Theatre, before catching his role on "Late Night".
- Arte Johnson
Arte Johnson (born January 20, 1929), full name Arthur Stanton Eric Johnson, is a comic actor. He was born in Benton Harbor, Michigan and attended the University of Illinois, graduating in 1949 after working on the campus radio station and the U of I Theater Guild with his brother, Cos. He initially sought employment in Chicago working for advertising agencies, but left for New York to work for Viking Press.
- Fazlur Khan
Fazlur Rahman Khan (April 3, 1929 - March 27, 1982), born in Dhaka, Bengal (now in Bangladesh), was a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer. After completing undergraduate coursework at the Bengal Engineering College, University of Calcutta (Now Bengal Engineering & Science University,Shibpur), Fazlur R. Khan received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Dhaka in 1951 while placing first in his class.
- Jack Welch
John Francis "Jack" Welch, Jr. (born November 19 1935) was Chairman and CEO of General Electric between 1981 and 2001. Welch gained a solid reputation for uncanny business acumen and unique leadership strategies at GE. During his tenure, GE increased its market capitalization by over $400 billion. He remains a highly-regarded figure in business circles due to his innovative management strategies and leadership style. His net-worth is estimated at $720 million.
- Dan Savage
Daniel Keenan Savage is an openly gay American sex advice columnist, author, media pundit, journalist, and newspaper editor. His strong opinions pointedly clash with both traditional conservative moral values and those put forth by what Savage has been known to call the "gay establishment." Savage has also worked as a theater director, both under his real name and under the name Keenan Hollahan, …
- César Pelli
César Pelli is a noted architect known for designing some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks. His firm has its headquarters and employs about 100 architects in New Haven, Connecticut. He is known for his extensive use of curved facades and metallic elements in his designs. Pelli emigrated to the United States in 1952 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1964. After studying architecture at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, …
- Allan Nevins
Allan Nevins (May 20, 1890 - March 5, 1971) was an American historian and journalist. Nevins earned an M.A. in English in 1913 from the University of Illinois. He worked as a journalist in New York City and began writing books on history. Nevins was appointed Dewitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University in 1931, two years after he joined the faculty there.
- Hugh Hefner
Hugh Marston Hefner (born April 9, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois), also referred to colloquially as Hef, is the founder and editor-in-chief of "Playboy" magazine. He has become an icon of American sexuality and a spokesman for the sexual revolution and libertarianism
- Irna Phillips
Irna Phillips was an American writer who created and scripted many of the first American soap operas. She is considered by many to be the "mother" of the genre. Phillips is best known for creating radio and TV soap operas. She created or co-created the following series: * "Another World" (1964-1999) * "As the World Turns" (1956-present) * "The Brighter Day" (1948-1956 on radio and 1954-1962 on television) * "Guiding Light" (1937-1956 on radio, …
- Steve Stricker
Steven Charles Stricker (born February 13 1967) is an American professional golfer. Stricker was born in Edgerton, Wisconsin. A 1990 graduate of the University of Illinois, Stricker turned professional in 1990 and has won three times on the PGA Tour. His most successful season on tour came in 1996, when Stricker notched two victories (Kemper Open, Motorola Western Open) and seven top ten finishes on his way to finishing fourth on the 1996 PGA Tour money list.
- Jerry Colangelo
Jerry Colangelo (born November 20, 1939 in Chicago Heights, Illinois) is a respected American businessman and former sports mogul. He is the former majority owner of the Phoenix Suns of the NBA, the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA, the Arizona Rattlers of the Arena Football League and the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball. He was also instrumental in the relocation of the Winnipeg Jets of the NHL to Phoenix to become the Phoenix Coyotes.
- Lou Boudreau
Louis Boudreau (July 17, 1917 - August 10, 2001) was an American Hall of Fame Major League Baseball player, and the American League MVP Award winner in 1948. He won the 1944 AL batting title (.327), and led the league in doubles in 1941, 1944, and 1947. He led AL shortstops in fielding 8 times. He won the American League MVP Award award in 1948.
- Ray Ozzie
Ray Ozzie Encyclopedia Search: in Tutorials Encyclopedia Dictionary Entire Web Store
- Jerry Sanders
Walter Jeremiah Sanders III (born September 12, 1936), and best known as "Jerry," was a salesman at Fairchild Semiconductor in the 1960s. He was one of the company's best sales people and was famous for style and flair. He then co-founded Advanced Micro Devices and took his trademark style into his position as its CEO. Jerry Sanders III grew up in the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, raised by his paternal grandparents.
- Michael S. Hart
Michael Stern Hart (b. 1947 in Tacoma, Washington) is an American best known as the founder of Project Gutenberg (PG) which makes electronic books freely available via the Internet. At least one version of each book is a plain text file that can be displayed on virtually any computer. Most of the early postings were personally typed in by himself. Today, the e-texts are produced (usually scanned) by Project Gutenberg's many volunteers.
- Donald Johanson
Donald Carl Johanson (born June 28, 1943 in Brisbane) is an American paleoanthropologist. Along with Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White, he is well known for the discovery of the skeleton of the female hominid australopithecine known as "Lucy", in the Afar Triangle of Ethiopia. Johanson earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1966. He earned his master's degree in 1970 and his PhD in 1974 from the University of Chicago. Dr.
- James Brady
James Scott “Jim” Brady was the former Assistant to the President and White House Press Secretary under President Ronald Reagan. After nearly being killed and becoming permanently disabled as a result of an assassination attempt on Reagan in 1981, Brady became an ardent supporter of gun control.
- Gene Hackman
Gene Hackman (born Eugene Allen Hackman on January 30, 1930) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actor. He came to fame during the 1970s, after his role in "The French Connection", and has continued to appear in major roles in Hollywood films.