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  1. Angelina Jolie

    Angelina Jolie (born June 4, 1975) is an American film actress, a former fashion model, and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She is often cited by popular media as the world's sexiest person and her off-screen life is widely reported. She has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award. After appearing as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film "Lookin' to Get Out", …

  2. Brad Pitt

    William Bradley "Brad" Pitt (born December 18, 1963) is an American actor and film producer. He became famous during the mid 1990s, after having starring roles in several major Hollywood films, including "Interview with the Vampire" in 1994 and the thriller "Se7en" in 1995. Pitt has been nominated for an Academy Award and has won a Golden Globe Award, both for his role in "Twelve Monkeys" (1996).

  3. Barbara Walters

    Barbara Jill Walters (born September 25, 1929) is an American journalist, writer and media personality who has been a regular fixture on morning television shows ("Today" and "The View"), evening news magazine ("20/20"), and on "The ABC Evening News", as the first female evening news anchor. Walters was first known as a popular TV morning news anchor for over 10 years on NBC's "Today", …

  4. John McCain

    John Sidney McCain III (born August 29, 1936 in Panama Canal Zone) is an American politician, decorated war veteran, and currently the Republican Senior U.S. Senator from Arizona. He was a presidential candidate in the 2000 election, but was defeated by George W. Bush for the Republican nomination. On February 28, 2007, during a guest appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman", …

  5. Tom Cruise

    Thomas Cruise Mapother IV (born July 3, 1962), more commonly known as Tom Cruise, is an American actor and film producer. He is tied with Tom Hanks as the only actors to have seven consecutive US$100 million plus blockbusters on his resume, and Forbes magazine ranked him as the world's most powerful celebrity in 2006. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and he has won the Golden Globe Award.

  6. Rosie O'Donnell

    Roseann Theresa "Rosie" O'Donnell (born March 21, 1962 in Bayside, Queens, New York) is an 11-time Emmy Award-winning American talk show host, television personality, comedienne, celebrity blogger, film, television, and stage actress.

  7. Ronald Reagan

    Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981-1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967-1975). Reagan was born in Illinois, but moved to Hollywood in the 1930s, where he starred in numerous "B" movies and became President of the Screen Actors Guild. He was a prominent Democrat who supported the New Deal Coalition in the 1940s, and was a leading opponent of Communism in Hollywood.

  8. Nicole Kidman

    Nicole Kidman mini-bio : Nicole Mary Kidman is an Academy Award-winning actress, and one of Hollywood's leading actresses. She has also ventured into singing. In 1995, she appeard in To Die For, a satirical comedy that earned her praise from critics and she won a Golden Globe Award for her work in the film. In 2002, Kidman received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Moulin Rouge! and in 2003 she won the Oscar for her work in The Hours.

  9. Sharon Stone

    Sharon Vonne Stone (born March 10, 1958) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning American actress, producer, and former fashion model. She came to international attention for her performance in the 1992 Hollywood blockbuster film "Basic Instinct".

  10. Steven Curtis Chapman

    Steven Curtis Chapman (born November 21, 1962 in Paducah, Kentucky, USA) is a contemporary Christian musician who has won five Grammy awards and more Gospel Music Association awards than any other artist in history.

  11. Meg Ryan

    Meg Ryan (born November 19, 1961) is an American actress who specializes in romantic comedies, but has also worked in other film genres.

  12. Jamie Lee Curtis

    Jamie Lee Curtis (born November 22, 1958) is a two time Golden Globe-winning, and Emmy Award-nominated American film actress and a successful writer of books for children. Although she was initially known as a "scream queen" because of her starring roles in many horror films early in her career, Curtis has since compiled a body of work that covers many genres. She is married to actor Christopher Guest (Baron Haden-Guest) and, as the wife of a Baron, …

  13. Woody Allen

    Woody Allen is a three-time Academy Award-winning American film director, writer, actor, jazz musician, comedian, and playwright. His large body of work and cerebral film style, mixing satire, wit and humor, have made him one of the most respected and prolific filmmakers in the modern era. Allen writes and directs his movies and has also acted in the majority of them. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, philosophy, psychology, Judaism, …

  14. Paul McCartney

    Sir James Paul McCartney MBE, known as Paul McCartney, (born 18 June 1942) is an Academy Award- and Grammy Award-winning English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who first gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. McCartney and John Lennon formed one of the most influential and successful songwriting partnerships and "wrote some of the most popular music in rock and roll history." On leaving The Beatles, …

  15. Sheryl Crow

    Sheryl Suzanne Crow (born February 11, 1962) is a nine-time Grammy-winning American blues rock singer, guitarist, bassist, and songwriter. Her music blends country, pop, folk, and blues rock into one mainstream sound. Crow is also a noted political activist who uses her fame to promote causes she supports.

  16. Mia Farrow

    Mia Farrow Mia Farrow has had an ever-evolving life journey that has brought her fame both on and offstage. Internationally acclaimed actress, mother of fourteen children (ten who are adopted), and a devoted and committed humanitarian advocating for children worldwide, Ms. Farrow now focuses her efforts on helping those less fortunate.

  17. Sam Brownback

    Samuel Dale Brownback (born September 12 1956) is the senior United States senator from the U.S. state of Kansas. On January 20 2007, he announced his intention to seek the Republican Party's nomination for President in the 2008 Presidential election.

  18. Michelle Pfeiffer

    Michelle Marie Pfeiffer (born April 29, 1958) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated and internationally known American actress. In a career spanning more than 25 years, Pfeiffer has appeared in films such as "Scarface", "The Fabulous Baker Boys" and "Batman Returns".

  19. Diane Keaton

    Diane Keaton (born Diane Hall on January 5, 1946) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress, director and producer. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970. Her first major film role was as Kay Adams in "The Godfather" (1972), but the films that shaped her early career were those with director and co-star Woody Allen, beginning with "Play It Again, Sam" (1972).

  20. George Lucas

    George Walton Lucas, Jr. is a four-time Academy Award nominated American film director, producer, and screenwriter famous for his epic "Star Wars" saga and Indiana Jones films — the latter a collaboration with his friend Steven Spielberg. He is one of American film industry's most financially successful independent directors and producers, with an estimated net worth of $3.6 billion.

  21. Paul Cameron

    Paul Drummond Cameron is an American psychologist and sex researcher. While employed at various institutions including the University of Nebraska he conducted research on passive smoking and several other topics, but he is best known today for his controversial research on homosexuality. After a successful 1982 campaign against a gay rights proposal in Lincoln, Nebraska, he established the Institute for the Scientific Investigation of Sexuality, …

  22. Andrew Jackson

    Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 - June 8, 1845) was the seventh President of the United States (1829-1837). He was also military governor of Florida (1821), commander of the American forces at the Battle of New Orleans (1815), a founder of the modern Democratic Party, and the eponym of the era of Jacksonian democracy. He was a polarizing figure who dominated American politics in the 1820s and 1830s. Nicknamed "Old Hickory" because he was renowned for his toughness, …

  23. Edie Falco

    Edith Falco (born July 5, 1963) is an American television, film and stage actress best known for her lead role as Carmela Soprano on HBO's award winning hit series "The Sopranos", as well as Diane Wittlesey on the HBO show "Oz".

  24. Josephine Baker

    Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 - April 12, 1975) was an American-born French entertainer, most noted for her singing career, while in her early career she was a celebrated dancer (she is often credited as a movie star, although she only starred in 3 films in her early career). She was given the nicknames "Black Venus" or "Black Pearl" and "Créole Goddess", while in France she was known in the old theatrical tradition as "La Baker". She became a citizen of France in 1937.

  25. Chris Daughtry

    Christopher Adam "Chris" Daughtry (born December 26 1979) is an American rock guitarist, singer and songwriter who is the lead vocalist of Daughtry, a band he formed in 2006. He is also known as the fourth-place finalist on the highly publicized fifth season of "American Idol", rejected from the competition on May 10 2006. After his fallout from "Idol", his band's self-titled debut album sold more than 1 million copies after just 5 weeks of release.

  26. Alfre Woodard

    Alfre Ette Woodard (born November 8, 1952) is an acclaimed Academy Award-nominated, Emmy, SAG, and Golden Globe-winning American actress.

  27. Kirstie Alley

    Kirstie Louise Alley (born January 12, 1951) is an American actress known for her role in the TV show "Cheers", where she played Rebecca Howe from 1987-1993, winning an Emmy as the "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series" for 1991. A year later, she won a Golden Globe for her performance in "Cheers" as well. She won an Emmy in 1994 for her role in the TV-drama "David's Mother".

  28. Marie Osmond

    Olive Marie Osmond (born October 13, 1959 in Ogden, Utah) is an American actress, singer, and a member of the show business family, The Osmonds. Although she was never part of her family's band, she gained success as a country music artist in the 1970s and 1980s. Her best known song is the 1973 country pop ballad "Paper Roses". Starting in 1976, Marie Osmond hosted a show with her brother called "Donny & Marie", which they both became best-known for.

  29. Bob Hope

    Bob Hope, KBE (May 29 1903 - July 27 2003), was an English-born American entertainer who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, on radio and television, in movies, and in performing tours for U.S. Military personnel, well known for his good natured humor and career longevity.

  30. Maury Povich

    Maurice Richard "Maury" Povich (born January 17, 1939 in Washington, D.C.) is an American TV talk show personality who currently hosts his self-titled talk show "Maury" which has earned him national recognition due to the paternity tests that are often aired. Povich is the son of "Washington Post" sportswriter Shirley Povich, who wrote a weekly column for the paper for more than 70 years. Povitch is an Lithuanian Jewish surname.

  31. Joan Crawford

    Joan Crawford (March 23 1905 - May 10 1977), was an acclaimed, iconic, Academy Award-winning American actress, arguably one of the greatest from the Golden Age of Hollywood from the 1920s through 1940s. The American Film Institute named Crawford among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time, ranking her at number ten. Starting as a dancer, she was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in 1925 and played in small parts.

  32. Lionel Richie

    Lionel Brockman Richie, Jr. (born June 20, 1949) is a Grammy Award-winning American R&B and soul singer, Academy Award-winning songwriter, record producer, and occasional actor.

  33. Elizabeth Taylor

    Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor DBE (born February 27 1932) is an iconic two-time Academy Award-winning British-American actress. Her eyes are sometimes said to be violet color, and at least one source refers to this suggested anomaly as her "trademark" violet eyes. It is further suggested, though photos do not support the claim, that her eyes are framed by a "double row" of eyelashes.

  34. Kurt Vonnegut

    Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11 1922 - April 11 2007) (pronounced) was an American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction, such as "Slaughterhouse-Five" (1969), "Cat's Cradle" (1963), and "Breakfast of Champions" (1973).

  35. Dan Marino

    Daniel Constantine Marino Jr. (born September 15, 1961 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA) is a Hall of Fame quarterback who played for the Miami Dolphins in the National Football League. The last quarterback of the legendary Quarterback Class of 1983 to be taken, Marino holds or held almost every serious NFL passing record and, despite never being on a Super Bowl-winning team, …

  36. Calista Flockhart

    Calista Kay Flockhart (born on November 11, 1964) is an Emmy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning American actress, primarily on soap operas and television. She is best known for her role as the title character in the 1997-2002 television show, "Ally McBeal". She now plays Sally Field's feuding daughter, Kitty Walker, on the hit ABC drama, "Brothers & Sisters", as a political campaign advisor.

  37. Cindy Hensley McCain

    Cindy McCain (Born in 1954) is an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She is the second wife of United States Senator John McCain. She serves as Chairperson of her family's business, Hensley & Company, and previously founded the American Voluntary Medical Team in 1988, leading many medical missions to developing and war-torn countries during the Team's seven-year existence.

  38. Julie Andrews

    Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews, DBE (born Julia Elizabeth Wells on 1 October 1935) is a BAFTA, Emmy, Grammy and Academy Award-winning English actress, singer, author and cultural icon. Andrews rose to prominence after starring in Broadway musicals such as "My Fair Lady" and "Camelot", as well as musical films like "Mary Poppins" (1964) and "The Sound of Music" (1965).

  39. Michael Dorris

    Michael Anthony Dorris (January 30, 1945 - April 11, 1997) was a prominent Native American novelist and scholar. His most famous works include the non-fiction "The Broken Cord" and the novel "A Yellow Raft in Blue Water." He was married to author Louise Erdrich. He committed suicide in 1997. "The Broken Cord", which won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction, …

  40. Henry Fonda

    Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 - August 12, 1982) was a highly acclaimed Academy Award-winning American film and stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, naturalistic acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting. Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor, and made his Hollywood debut in 1935.

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