- Charles Taylor
Charles Alfred Taylor (1922-2002) was a British physicist well known for his work in crystallography and his efforts to promote science to young audiences. Charles Taylor was born in Hull in 1922. He began his degree in Queen Mary's College at the University of London, but the college was subsequently evacuated to Cambridge during the remainder of World War II. He graduated in 1943, and then worked for the Admiralty designing radar countermeasures, …
- John Hope
John Raymond Hope (May 14, 1919-June 13, 2002) was an American meteorologist who specialized in hurricane forecasting and was an on-air personality on The Weather Channel. Born in Pennsylvania, Hope served as a flight navigator in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. After returning to civilian life, Hope earned a degree in meteorology from the University of Illinois. He then worked as a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Memphis, Tennessee, …
- Laura Callahan
Laura Callahan is a former senior director at the United States Department of Homeland Security who was forced to resign after an investigation revealed that she and numerous other federal employees had obtained high-ranking government jobs through use of fabricated academic degrees received from diploma mills.
- Ted Kulongoski
When Kulongoski was sworn in as governor in January 2003, Oregon faced the largest budget deficit since the Great Depression. The governor responded by changing the way Oregon budgets, building a principle-based budget designed to establish fiscal stability while delivering measurable returns. He made priority investments in economic development, workforce training, transportation infrastructure, and arts and culture that helped turned Oregon's economy around.
- Rube Goldberg
Reuben Garret L. Goldberg (July 4, 1883 - December 7, 1970) was an American cartoonist. He earned lasting fame for his Rube Goldberg machines (complex devices that perform simple tasks in indirect and convoluted ways). He was posthumously awarded the National Cartoonist Society Gold Key Award in 1980. Goldberg went to Lowell High School in San Francisco in 1900 and earned a degree in engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1904.
- John Ralston
John Ralston (born April 26, 1927), a graduate of the University of California, played linebacker on two Cal Rose Bowl teams before earning his physical education Academic degree in 1951. He spent three seasons as an assistant at Cal before being named head coach at Utah State University in 1959. In four years, he compiled a 31-11-1 record and two Skyline Conference championships. He was born in Oakland, California.
- Pete Hoekstra
Peter "Pete" Hoekstra (born October 30, 1953) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. A Republican, Hoekstra has represented the Michigan's 2nd congressional district since taking office in 1993 following his win in the 1992 election. Born in Groningen in the Netherlands, Hoekstra emigrated to Holland, Michigan, USA, at the age of three with his family.
- Miss Elizabeth
Elizabeth Ann Hulette, known best as Miss Elizabeth, was a U.S. professional wrestling manager. She gained international fame during the late-1980s and early-1990s in the World Wrestling Federation, and the mid-1990s in World Championship Wrestling in her role as the ever-demure and graceful counterpart to the wild and brash pro wrestling character "Macho Man" Randy Savage. Hulette was originally from Frankfort, Kentucky.
- Eric Thomas
Eric Jackson Thomas, born 24 March 1953 in Hartlepool, County Durham, is an academic who has been Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bristol since 2001. He is also the current chair of the Worldwide Universities Network.
- Carol A. Cartwright
Carol A. Cartwright is the 10th President of Kent State University, the first woman to take the President's chair. She became President in March of 1991. Previously she was vice chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of California at Davis and dean for undergraduate programs and vice provost at The Pennsylvania State University. Dr.
- MacKenzie Thorpe
Mackenzie Thorpe (born 1956 in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire) is a British artist. Born as the first of seven children into the post-war industrial town, Thorpe initially took on work in the shipyards, such were his familial origins. A suggestion from a friend, however, encouraged him to try to pursue his first love, drawing and painting, at art school. Thorpe applied in 1977 to study at the local Cleveland College of Art, …
- Billy Carter
William Alton "Billy" Carter (March 29, 1937 - September 25, 1988) was the younger brother of United States President Jimmy Carter, born in Plains, Georgia. For a time, Carter attended Emory University in Atlanta but did not complete a degree. Carter served four years in the United States Marine Corps then returned to Plains to work for his older brother in the family business of growing peanuts. In 1955, he married Sybil Spires, a young lady from Plains.
- Edwin McMillan
Edwin Mattison McMillan (September 18, 1907 - September 7, 1991) was the first scientist to produce a transuranium element. He was born in Redondo Beach, California. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1928 and his Master of Science degree in 1929, both from the California Institute of Technology; he then took his Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton University in 1932. He joined the staff of the University of California, Berkeley upon receiving his doctorate, …
- Michael Clapham
Michael "Mick" Clapham (born May 15, 1943) is a British politician and former trade union official. He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Barnsley West and Penistone. Born in Barnsley, Mick Clapham was educated at the Darton Secondary Modern School and the Barnsley Technical College. After leaving school in 1958, he was a coal miner for 12 years before he returned to further his education at the Leeds Polytechnic, …
- Charles Villiers Stanford
Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (September 30, 1852 - 29 March 1924) was an Irish composer. Stanford was born in Dublin, the only son of John Stanford, examiner in the Court of Chancery (Dublin) and clerk of the Crown, County Meath. Both parents were accomplished amateur musicians; his father sang bass and his mother was a pianist. Charles trained under R. M. Levey (violin), Miss Meeke, Mrs Joseph Robinson, …
- Elsa Eschelsson
Elsa Olava Kristina Eschelsson was the first woman to finish a Doctor of Laws ("juris utriusque doctor") degree and the first to attain the academic position of docent at a Swedish university, but was denied the right to even serve as acting professor because of her sex. She died from an overdose of sleeping-powder in 1911. Elsa Eschelsson was born in Norrköping. As most of the earliest generation of women to study at Swedish universities (see Rönnholm p. 46-49), …
- Bruce George
Bruce Thomas George (born June 1 1942) British politician He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Walsall South. Bruce George was born in Wales during World War II and was educated at the Mountain Ash Grammar School and the University of Wales, Swansea where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in political theory and government. He finished his education at the University of Warwick where he earned a master's degree in comparative politics.
- Steve Maguire
Steve Maguire is a renowned software engineer and author of software engineering topics. He is the author of two books on software development, "Writing Solid Code" and "Debugging the Development Process". Maguire attended the University of Arizona where he earned with a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering though most of his work has been with computer software. Maguire's professional work spans two nations, Japan and the United States.
- Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen is a Republican Kansas State Senator from the 8th District. She is from Overland Park, Kansas and is an attorney. Allen graduated with a Bachelor of Science from Mount Vernon College and a Degree from the University of Missouri Kansas City Law School. She was first elected to the Kansas House in 1988 and then to the Kansas Senate in 2000. In March of 2005, Allen was informed that she had breast cancer.
- Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 -July 16, 1991) was an American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker. He was one of the youngest of the New York School (a phrase he coined), which also included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Philip Guston. Motherwell was born in Aberdeen, Washington.
- John Pople
Sir John Anthony Pople, FRS, (October 31, 1925 - March 15, 2004) was a theoretical chemist. Born in Burnham on Sea, Somerset, England, he attended Bristol Grammar School. He moved to the United States of America in the early 1960s, where he lived the rest of his life, though he retained British citizenship. He received his B. A. (in 1946) and doctorate (in 1951) degrees in mathematics, from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom.
- Robert David Hall
Robert David Hall (born November 9, 1947) is an American actor, best known for his role as coroner Dr. Albert Robbins M.D. on the television show "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation". Born in East Orange, New Jersey, Hall attended Tustin (CA) High School and went on to college at UCLA, graduating in 1971 with a degree in English Literature. Mr. Hall is an accomplished guitarist and former professional musician.
- Richard Roth
Richard Henry Roth (1949-)is an American journalist, a CNN correspondent who covers the United Nations and was the host of "Diplomatic License" (until its cancellation in January 2006), a weekly program that was devoted to United Nations affairs. Roth is a CNN "original" - one of the first employees when the network launched in 1980. He has covered a wide range of stories over the last 25 years, …
- William Lipscomb
William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr. (born December 9, 1919) is an American inorganic chemist, working in experimental and theoretical chemistry and biochemistry. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but his family moved to Lexington, Kentucky when he was an infant, and he lived there until he received his Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Kentucky in 1941. He went on to earn his Doctor of Philosophy degree from the California Institute of Technology in 1946.
- Aaron Henry
Aaron Henry (July 2, 1922 - May 19, 1997) was a civil rights leader, politician, and head of the NAACP. He was born in Dublin, Mississippi to Ed and Mattie Henry who were sharecroppers. He enlisted in the Army after high school and later attended Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans on the GI Bill. He graduated with a degree in Pharmacy. He opened a drug store in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
- Brian Schweitzer
Brian Schweitzer - Governor of Montana . Schweitzer currently has on of the highest gubernatorial ratings. Although I still find it highly unlikely, he could possibly make MT a swing state since Obama did win it in the primaries. He was part of Clinton's Department of Agriculture and would help Obama greatly with blue collar workers and possibly some Independents and Republicans. In the end, Schweitzer still doesn't help much with foreign policy though.
- Ian Hodder
Ian Hodder is a British archaeologist and pioneer of postprocessualist theory in archaeology. As of 2005, he is Dunlevie Family Professor and Chair of the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University in the United States.
- Bill Hayden
William George Hayden AC (born 23 January 1933), Australian politician and 21st Governor-General of Australia, was born in Brisbane, Queensland, the son of an American-born sailor of Irish descent. Bill Hayden was educated at Catholic schools and served in the Queensland Police Force from 1953 to 1961. He furthered his education through private study, completing an economics degree at the University of Queensland.
- Hugh Latimer
Hugh Latimer (b. approx. 1485/90, d. October 16, 1555) was a famous Protestant martyr. Latimer was born into a family of farmers in Thurcaston, Leicestershire. From around 14 years of age he started to attend Peterhouse, Cambridge, and was known as a good student. After receiving his academic degrees and being ordained, he developed a reputation as a very zealous Roman Catholic. At first he opposed the Lutheran opinion of his day, …
- Carleton Sheets
Carleton Sheets (name often misspelled as "Carlton") (born August 25, 1939) is head of the Professional Education Institute. The group uses infomercials to sell real estate investing literature, audio, and video to beginners. Sheets claims that beginners (even those with bad credit) can purchase property for "no money down." He has degrees in business, psychology, and speech from Ohio Wesleyan University (1961).
- Hardy Cross
Hardy Cross, 1885-1959, born in Nansemond County, Virginia, was a U.S. engineer and the developer of the moment distribution method for structural calculation of large reinforced concrete buildings. The method was in general use from c.1935 until c.1960 when it was superseded by other methods. It made possible the efficient and safe design of many reinforced concrete buildings during an entire generation.
- Dominic Grieve
Dominic Charles Roberts Grieve (born May 24, 1956) British politician and barrister. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Beaconsfield and is the shadow Attorney General and one of the shadow Home Affairs spokesmen. He also has responsibility for community cohesion on behalf of the Conservative Party. Grieve was born in London, the son of Percy Grieve QC, the (MP for Solihull 1964-1983). He was educated at the French Lycee, Colet Court, …
- Syed Kamall
Syed Salah Kamall (born February 15, 1967) is a British Conservative Party politician, Member of the European Parliament for London. Kamall was born and brought up in London. He is married with two children. He was educated at the Latymer School, Edmonton. He has a degree from the University of Liverpool, a Masters degree from the London School of Economics and a PhD from City University, London.
- Rudolph Pariser
Rudolph Pariser (born December 8, 1923) is a physical chemist and polymer chemist. He was born in Harbin, China to merchant parents. He attended the Von Hindenburg Schule in Harbin, an American Missionary School in Beijing and American School in Tokyo. He left for the United States just before World War II broke out. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1944, and his Ph.
- Abdullah O. Nasseef
Dr. Abdullah O. Nasseef is a Saudi chemist and geologist, and has a Ph.D degree from Leeds University in the United Kingdom. He is the current president of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, a Professor at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, and serves as chief of Saudi Arabian Boy Scouts Association, which he joined in 1956. In 1983, Dr. Nasseef was awarded the "Bronze Wolf", the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, …
- Michael Rosenbaum
Michael Owen Rosenbaum (born July 11, 1972) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Lex Luthor on "Smallville". Continuing in the comic book genre, he voiced Wally West (a.k.a. The Flash) in the DC Comics animated series "Justice League". Rosenbaum has also done film and other voiceover work. In February of 2007, Rosenbaum confirmed that he would be leaving Smallville after the show's 7th season.
- Linda McMahon
Linda Marie Edwards-McMahon (born October 4 1948 in New Bern, North Carolina) is the CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. and is the wife of World Wrestling Entertainment Chairman Vince McMahon. Linda has served on the Board of Directors since 1980 and was largely responsible for the growth of WWE merchandising. In addition, she is widely involved with the charitable work of WWE.
- Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen (11 March 1965 in London) is an English interior designer and television personality best known for his appearances on the BBC television programme "Changing Rooms". He is noted for his flamboyant personality and for affecting a dandyish appearance. He is sometimes credited as "Laurence Llewelyn Bowen", and the components of his name are frequently misspelled "Llewellyn" and/or "Lawrence".
- Heinz Wolff
Professor Heinz Wolff (born 29 April 1928) is a German-British scientist, and television and radio presenter. He is best known for his television and radio work, including the TV series "The Great Egg Race". He was born in Berlin, and moved to Britain with his family at the age of ten, arriving on the day World War II broke out. After school, he worked at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford and at the Pneumoconiosis Research Unit near Cardiff, …
- Jerry Savelle
Jerry Savelle is president of Jerry Savelle Ministries International (JSMI), a ministry of many outreaches devoted to meeting the needs of believers all over the world.<br /> "Dr." Savelle, as he often goes by, first established his ministry, Jerry Savelle Evangelistic Association, in 1974 as a traveling ministry with only one employee. His ministry has grown immensely since those beginning days and now encompasses the United States as well as locations abroad.