- Ehud Barak
Ehud Barak is an Israeli politician, former Prime Minster, and current Minister of Defense, deputy prime minister and leader of Israel's Labor Party. Barak served as the 10th Prime Minister of Israel from 1999 to 2001. After losing the 2001 election, Barak embarked on a business career. On June 12, 2007, he completed a political comeback by winning election to the Labor Party leadership. He was appointed as Israeli Minister of Defence, … - Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson (born William Hugh Nelson, April 30, 1933) is an American entertainer and songwriter, born and raised in Abbott, Texas. He reached his greatest fame during the so-called "outlaw country" movement of the 1970s. - Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (November 22, 1890 – November 9, 1970), in France commonly referred to as "Général de Gaulle", was a French military leader and statesman. Prior to World War II, he was primarily known as an armoured warfare tactician and an advocate of the concentrated use of armoured and aviation forces. - 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. - Burt Rutan
Elbert Leander "Burt" Rutan (born June 17, 1943 in Estacada, Oregon) is an American aerospace engineer noted for his originality in designing light, strong, unusual-looking, energy-efficient aircraft. He is most famous for his design of the record-breaking Voyager, which was the first plane to fly around the world without stopping or refueling, and the suborbital rocket plane SpaceShipOne, which won the Ansari X-Prize in 2004. - William Smith
William Smith (born March 24, 1934 in Columbia, Missouri, USA) is an American actor. He worked as a child actor, but is best known for his numerous roles in low-budget action films playing bikers, cowboys, tough-guys, and villains. He is possibly best-known for playing Falconetti on the TV mini-series "Rich Man, Poor Man". - Saxby Chambliss
Chambliss was born in Warrenton, North Carolina. He graduated from C.E. Byrd High School in Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1961. He attended Louisiana Tech University from 1961-1962. Chambliss earned a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Georgia in 1966 and earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1968. He is a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. - John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 - May 24, 1959) served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism around the world. He advocated support of the French in their war against the Viet Minh in Indochina and famously refused to shake the hand of Zhou Enlai at the Geneva Conference in 1954. - Gordon Cooper
Leroy Gordon "Gordo" Cooper, Jr. was an American astronaut. He was one of the original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first manned-space effort by the United States. - Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
The North Atlantic Council appointed Dutch Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer as NATO secretary general and Council chairman on 22 September 2003. De Hoop Scheffer assumed his post on 1 January 2004, succeeding Lord George Robertson of Britain. He is the third Dutchman to head the Alliance in its 54-year history. De Hoop Scheffer was born in Amsterdam on 3 April 1948. He graduated in law from Leiden University in 1974. - J. Allen Hynek
Josef Allen Hynek (May 1, 1910 - April 27, 1986) was a U.S. astronomer, professor, and ufologist. He is probably best remembered for his UFO research: Hynek acted as scientific advisor to three consecutive UFO studies undertaken by the U.S. Air Force: Project Sign (1947-1949), Project Grudge (1949-1952), and finally, Project Blue Book (1952 to 1969); for decades afterwards, he conducted his own independent UFO research. - Chris Mooney
Chris Mooney (born August 7, 1972) is the head men's basketball coach at the University of Richmond. Prior to taking the helm of the Spiders basketball program, he was the head coach at Air Force. In his only year there, he led the Falcons to their second best record in school history (18-12). He played college basketball at Princeton. As a four year starter at Princeton, he ranks 20th on the schools all-time leading scoring list with 1,071 points, … - Karen Kwiatkowski
Karen U. Kwiatkowski (born 24 September 1960) is a retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel whose assignments included duties as a Pentagon desk officer and a variety of roles for the National Security Agency. Since retiring, she has become a noted critic of the U.S. government's involvement in Iraq. - Henry L. Stimson
Henry Lewis Stimson ( September 21 , 1867 – October 20 , 1950 ) was an American statesman , who served as Secretary of War , Governor-General of the Philippines , and Secretary of State . He was a conservative Republican, and a leading lawyer in New York City. He is best known as the civilian Secretary of War during World War II, chosen for his aggressive stance against Nazi Germany, with responsibility for the Army and Air Force. - Richard Aboulafia
Richard Aboulafia is an aviation analyst and Vice President of Analysis at Teal Group Corporation. He specializes in military, civilian and general aviation. Richard writes publicly about aviation and defense, with numerous articles in Aviation Week & Space Technology, Financial Times, Military Technology, Avmark Aviation Economist, Jane's Intelligence Review and the Asian Wall Street Journal. He has a regular column in AIAA's Aerospace America. - Harold Brown
Harold Brown was born on September 19, 1927, in New York City. He received three degrees, among them a Ph.D. (1949) in physics from Columbia University. Brown was a research scientist at the University of California Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, then at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Livermore, CA; he became director of the Lawrence lab in 1960. Brown was senior adviser at the Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Tests (1958-1959). - Les Aspin
Leslie "Les" Aspin, Jr. (July 21, 1938 - May 21, 1995) was a United States Congressman from 1971 to 1993, and the United States Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton from January 21, 1993 to February 3, 1994. - Gene Roddenberry
Eugene Wesley Roddenberry was an American scriptwriter and producer. He is best known as the creator of what would become the science fiction universe of "Star Trek". He would also become one of the first people to be buried in space. - Frank Thomas
Franklin Thomas was one of Walt Disney's team of animators known as the Nine Old Men. He graduated from Stanford University - where he worked on campus humor magazine the Stanford Chaparral with Ollie Johnston -- then later attended Chouinard Art Institute, then joined The Walt Disney Company on September 24, 1934 as employee number 224. There he animated dozens of feature films and shorts, and also was a member of the Dixieland band Firehouse Five Plus Two, … - James Forrestal
James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892 - May 22, 1949) was a Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense. Forrestal's death resulted from a fall out of a Bethesda Naval Hospital window which has led to speculation and much controversy. He was a supporter of naval battle groups centered on aircraft carriers. In 1954, the Navy's first supercarrier was named the USS "Forrestal" in his honor. - Morris Davis
Colonel Morris D. Davis (born July 31 1958) is a United States Air Force officer and lawyer, appointed to serve as the third chief prosecutor in the Guantanamo military commissions. - John von Neumann
John von Neumann (born Margittai Neumann János Lajos on December 28, 1903 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary; died February 8, 1957 in Washington D.C., United States) was a Austria-Hungary-born American mathematician who made contributions to quantum physics, functional analysis, set theory, topology, economics, computer science, numerical analysis, hydrodynamics (of explosions), … - Eric Draper
Eric Draper is the White House Photo Director and personal photographer for President George W. Bush. Draper worked for the Associated Press as a news photographer prior to joining the White House. His many assignments included the 1996 and 2000 presidential campaigns, the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, the Kosovo conflict in 1999 and the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France. Over the years, Draper has also worked as a staff photographer for The Seattle Times, … - Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932 - February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Known primarily for her poetry, Plath also wrote a semi-autobiographical novel, "The Bell Jar", under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, detailing her struggle with depression. Along with Anne Sexton, Plath is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry that Robert Lowell and W.D. Snodgrass initiated. - Walter Matthau
Walter Matthau (October 1, 1920 - July 1, 2000) was an Academy Award-winning American comedy actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in "The Odd Couple" and his frequent collaborations with fellow "Odd Couple" star Jack Lemmon. - Susan Davis
Susan A. Davis (born April 13, 1944), is an American politician who has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2001, representing California's 53rd congressional district (map). The district includes just under half the city of San Diego, as well as the entire cities of Coronado, Imperial Beach and Lemon Grove. She was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but has spent most of her life in California. - Frank Borman
Frank Borman retired from the Air Force in 1970, but is well remembered as a part of this nation's history, a pioneer in the exploration of space and veteran of both the Gemini 7, 1965 Space Orbital Rendezvous with Gemini 6 and the first manned lunar orbital mission, Apollo 8, in 1968. Borman's retirement from the Air Force in 1970 did not end his aviation career. - Henry Allingham
Henry William Allingham (born 6 June 1896) has been the oldest surviving British veteran of the First World War since 20 July 2003 upon the death of then 108-year-old Jack Davis. He is also believed to be Britain's longest-lived member of the armed forces since George Frederick Ives died in 1993 at age 111, and Britain's oldest living man. On 13 February 2007, he became the UK's second-oldest living person, behind Florrie Baldwin, now 111, … - Ralph Eberhart
General Ralph E. "Ed" Eberhart was Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado. General Eberhart entered the Air Force in 1968 as a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy. His staff experience includes serving as Executive Officer to the Air Force Chief of Staff at Headquarters U.S. Air Force; Deputy Chief of Staff for Inspection, Safety and Security, … - Jim Turner
Jim Turner is an American actor and comedian born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1952. His Father, George Turner, was in the Air Force and the family moved around often to places including Quebec, Arizona and Iowa. He married Lynn Freer in 1992 and they have a son. A long time member of the comedy troupe Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre he is best known for his 7 seasons co-starring in HBO's hit comedy series Arliss as lovable lout, Kirby Carlisle. - Ralph Steadman
Ralph Steadman (born Wallasey, May 15, 1936) is a British cartoonist and caricaturist. Born in Wallasey, Cheshire, and brought up in Towyn, North Wales, Steadman attended Ysgol Emrys Ap Iwan (high school), Abergele, East Ham Technical College and the London College of Printing and Graphic Arts during the 1960s, doing freelance work for "Punch, Private Eye," the "Daily Telegraph," the "New York Times" and "Rolling Stone" during this time. - Edward Lansdale
Edward Geary Lansdale (February 6, 1908-February 23, 1987) was a U.S. Air Force officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and the Central Intelligence Agency. He rose to the rank of Major General, was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal in 1963, and retired in 1968. Lansdale was born in Detroit, Michigan, died in McLean, Virginia, and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. - Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron (born May 19 1941) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, and blogger. Ephron was born in Brooklyn, New York. She was born into a Jewish family and her parents, Henry and Phoebe Ephron, were both East Coast-born and raised screenwriters. They based Sandra Dee's character in the James Stewart film "Take Her, She's Mine" on their 22-year-old daughter Nora. Both died from alcoholism. - Guy Gibson
Wing Commander Guy Penrose Gibson VC DSO and Bar DFC and Bar RAF (12 August 1918 - 19 September 1944), was the first CO of the RAF's 617 Squadron, which he led in the "Dam Busters" raid (Operation Chastise), in 1943, resulting in the destruction of two large dams in the Ruhr area. He was killed later in the war. - Ken Loach
Kenneth Loach (born June 17, 1936), known as Ken Loach, is an English television and film director. He is known for his naturalistic, social realism directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues as homelessness (e.g., "Cathy Come Home") and poverty (e.g., "Riff-Raff"). - Vivian Liberto
Vivian Liberto was the first wife of country singer Johnny Cash. Liberto met Johnny Cash in 1950 at a roller skating rink in San Antonio, Texas three weeks before the Air Force deployed him to Germany. At the time, she was still a senior at Providence High School, an all-girl Catholic school in San Antonio. During Cash's military tour overseas, the couple wrote each other over 10,000 pages of love letters. On July 3, 1954, Cash was discharged from the Air Force. - Patty Wagstaff
Patty Wagstaff (born September 11, 1951 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an aerobatic pilot from the United States. Wagstaff traveled all over the world as a child: her father was a pilot for Japan Airlines, and Wagstaff would travel to Southeast Asia, Australia and Alaska to prepare for her own career as a pilot. Her first lesson was on a Cessna 185; since then, she has earned licenses to fly multiple aircraft, including commercial helicopters. - Milo Radulovich
Milo Radulovich (born circa 1926) is an American citizen of Serbian descent and former reserve Air Force lieutenant who was accused of being a security risk in 1953. His case was made public and helped turn the American people against McCarthyism (though Senator Joseph McCarthy was not directly involved). In 1953, in the middle of McCarthyism in the USA, Radulovich, a reserve Air Force lieutenant in Dexter, Michigan, … - Bart Starr
Bryan Bartlett Starr (born January 9, 1934 in Montgomery, Alabama) is a former professional American football player and coach. Wearing #15, he was the quarterback for the Green Bay Packers (1956-1971) and the MVP of the first two Super Bowls. He earned four Pro Bowl selections and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1977. The son of an Air Force NCO, Starr played High School football at Lanier High School in Montgomery, Alabama, … - James Wolfensohn
President of the World Bank for the past decade, has confirmed he will retire from his post later this year. He told the ABC television network in the US that the time had come for him to pass on the baton after 10 years at the helm of the global institution. "I had 10 years and I think that's probably enough," the 71-year-old Mr Wolfensohn said. He is due to wrap up his second five-year term as the Washington-headquartered bank's president in June.
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