- J. D. Salinger
Jerome David Salinger (born January 1, 1919) is an American author best known for his 1951 novel "The Catcher in the Rye", as well as his reclusive nature; he has not published any new work since 1965 and has not granted a formal interview since 1980. Raised in Manhattan, New York, Salinger attended several boarding schools, where he began writing short stories. He attended college briefly but dropped out to devote his time to writing, … - Curtis Sittenfeld
Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld (born 1975) is an American writer who has published two novels, "Prep", a tale about a New England prep school, and "The Man of My Dreams", another coming-of-age novel, as well as other short stories. Elizabeth was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the second of four children (three girls and a boy) of Paul G., an investment adviser, and Elizabeth (Curtis) Sittenfeld, an art history teacher at the Seven Hills School, … - Paris Hilton
Paris Whitney Hilton is an American celebutante, businesswoman, singer, model, actress, author, and television personality. She is part-heiress to both the Hilton Hotel fortune and the real estate fortune of her father Richard Hilton. - Natascha McElhone
Natascha McElhone (born Natascha Taylor, December 14, 1971 in Hampstead, London, England) is a British television and movie actress. - Fletcher Brothers
Pastor Fletcher A. Brothers is a fundamentalist preacher and author from Rochester, New York, USA. He is best known as the founder of Freedom Village(FV), a reform school operated from a Christian Fundamentalist perspective and founded in Starkey, New York in 1981. The campus building was the site of the defunct Lakemont Academy, a secular boys boarding school. Freedom Village also operates an office in Burlington, … - Lame Deer
Lame Deer, (in Lakota "Tahca Ushte"; 1900 or 1903-1976, sources differ), also known as John Fire, John (Fire) Lame Deer and later The Old Man, was a Lakota holy man. Lame Deer was an Oglala-Lakota Sioux born on the Rosebud reservation. His father was Silas Fire Let-Them-Have-Enough. His mother was Sally Red Blanket. - Justin Theroux
Born August 10, 1971 in Washington, D.C., Theroux came from an artistic family. His uncle, Paul, wrote The Mosquito Coast, while his cousin, Louis, is a journalist. He discovered acting while attending Buxton School, a boarding school in Williamstown, MA (after being expelled from several high schools). Theroux graduated from Bennington College with a double major in visual arts and drama and later attended the prestigious British American Drama Academy in London, England. - Miles Kington
Miles Kington (born 1941) is a British journalist, jazz musician and broadcaster. He was born in Northern Ireland (where his father, a soldier, was then posted), went to school at Trinity College, Glenalmond, a boys' independent boarding school in Glenalmond, Scotland. The school has since been renamed Glenalmond College. He then studied Modern Languages at Trinity College, Oxford. He began his career at the now defunct satirical magazine "Punch", … - Geraldine Somerville
Geraldine Margaret Agnew-Somerville (born 19 May 1967) is a British/Irish actress. - John Ryan
John Gerald Christopher Ryan (born 4 March 1921, Edinburgh) is a British animator and cartoonist, best known for his character "Captain Pugwash. Ryan expressed his love of writing and drawing early in life, creating his first book, "Adventures of Tommy Brown" at the age of 7. Ryan attended Ampleforth College, a Catholic boarding school. After completing his national service in Burma, Ryan studied at the Regent Street Polytechnic, … - Henry Cavill
Henry William Dalgliesh Cavill (born 5 May1983) is a British actor. Cavill was born in Jersey, and was educated at St. Michael's Preparatory School in the Island, before attending Stowe School, a boarding school, where he acted in many plays. - Anthony Buckeridge
Anthony Malcolm Buckeridge OBE (June 20, 1912 - June 28, 2004) was an English author, best known for his "Jennings" and "Rex Milligan" series of children's books, although he also wrote the 1953 children's book "A Funny Thing Happened" which was serialised more than once on Children's Hour. - Dorita Fairlie Bruce
Dorita Fairlie Bruce (1885-1970) was a British children's author, most notably of the Dimsie books published between 1921 and 1941. The Dimsie books are: "The Senior Prefect" (1921) (title changed in 1925 to "Dimsie Goes To School"), "Dimsie Moves Up" (1921), "Dimsie Moves Up Again" (1922), "Dimsie Among the Prefects" (1923), "Dimsie Grows Up" (1924), "Dimsie Head Girl" (1925), "Dimsie Goes Back" (1927), … - Frances Wright
Frances Wright (September 6 1795-December 131852) was a lecturer, writer, feminist, abolitionist, and utopian. Wright was born to a wealthy family in Dundee, Scotland, the daughter of James Wright, designer of Dundee trade tokens. When she was orphaned at the age of three, she was left with a substantial inheritance. By the age of 18, she had written her first book. She emigrated to United States in 1818, and with her sister toured from 1818 to 1820. - Connie Stevens
Connie Stevens (born August 8, 1938) is an American actress and singer. - John Loder
John Loder (April 7 1946 - August 12 2005) was a British sound engineer, record producer and founder of Southern Studios, as well as a former member of EXIT and co-founder of the Southern Records distribution company with his wife Sue. He was also the studio engineer of choice for Crass Records, and was often considered to be the bands' '9th member'. Loder died of a brain tumour. - Edward Speleers
Edward Speleers (often shortened to Ed) (born December 21 1987 in Chichester, West Sussex, England) is an English actor. His debut role was the title role in "Eragon," an adaptation of Christopher Paolini's fantasy novel of the same name, which also stars Jeremy Irons, Djimon Hounsou, John Malkovich, Garrett Hedlund, and Robert Carlyle. The movie was released internationally on December 15, 2006. - Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy
The Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy (NBTA) is located in Bradenton, Florida, and was founded in 1978 by Nick Bollettieri as a full-time tennis boarding school that combines intensive tennis training with an academic curriculum. The NBTA utilizes 35 hard courts, 16 clay courts (one red clay court) and four indoor courts. The NBTA stresses discipline, responsibility and effort and aims to develop its students on and off the court. - Gemma Hayes
Gemma Hayes is a singer-songwriter born on August 11 1977 in Ballyporeen, Tipperary, Ireland. - Mick Fleetwood
Michael John Kells "Mick" Fleetwood (born June 24, 1947) is a British musician best known for his role as the drummer with the rock and roll band Fleetwood Mac. His name, combined with that of John McVie was the inspiration for the name of the originally Peter Green-led Fleetwood Mac. Besides his work as a drummer, he also helped form the different incarnations of his band Fleetwood Mac. In 1974, he met and invited Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks to join Fleetwood Mac. - David Lindsay-Abaire
David Lindsay-Abaire is a Pulitzer Prize winning American playwright, best known for "Fuddy Meers" and for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Drama "Rabbit Hole". He grew up in Boston, Massachusetts in a family of five he describes as "very blue collar." His mother was a factory worker and his father worked for the Chelsea fruit market. He attended Boston public schools until the seventh grade, when he received a six-year scholarship to the Milton Academy, … - Posy Simmonds
Posy Simmonds studied at Central School of Art and Design, London and received an MBE in 2002 for services to the newspaper industry. Posy first made her name with a popular cartoon series in the Guardian. Her works are notable for the discipline and fine tuning of the page design. - Os Guinness
Os Guinness is a writer and social critic living in McLean, Virginia. Born in China during World War II where his parents were medical missionaries, he is the great-great grandson of Arthur Guinness, the famous Dublin brewer. He started school at a boarding school in China, and remained there until 1951 when the communists forced most foreigners to leave. Since then he has lived mostly in England, Switzerland, and the United States. - Francis Chichester
Sir Francis Chichester (September 17 1901 - August 26 1972), aviator and sailor, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for becoming the first person to sail single-handed around the world by the clipper route, and the fastest circumnavigator, in nine months and one day. He was born in Barnstaple, Devon, England and suffered a miserable childhood as the myopic second son of an unloving Anglican clergyman. - Robyn Davidson
Robyn Davidson (born September 6, 1950) is an Australian writer best known for a book and CD-ROM about a 1,700-mile trek across the deserts of west Australia. Born at Stanley Park, a cattle station in Miles, Queensland, she went to a girls' boarding school. Her mother hanged herself when Davidson was 11, and she was largely raised by her father's sister. In the 1970s, Davidson moved to Alice Springs. - Dick Heckstall-Smith
Dick Heckstall-Smith (September 16, 1934 - December 17, 2004) was an English jazz and blues saxophonist. He played with some of the most important English blues-rock and jazz-rock bands of the 1960s and 1970s. Heckstall-Smith was born Richard Malden Heckstall-Smith in Ludlow, England (his father then being headmaster of the local Grammar School), and brought up in Knighton, Wales. He learned to play piano, clarinet and alto saxophone in childhood. - Jane Bowles
Jane Bowles, born Jane Auer, was an American writer and playwright. Born into a Jewish family in New York, Jane Bowles spent her childhood in Woodmere, New York, on Long Island. She developed tuberculosis of the knee as a teenager and her mother took her to Switzerland for treatment, where she attended boarding school. As a teenager she returned to New York, … - Joginder Singh
Sardar Joginder Singh Bhachu (born February 9, 1932 in Kericho, Kenya) was a successful endurance rally driver in the 1960s and 1970s. He won the Safari Rally three times, in 1965 driving a Volvo PV544 with his brother Jaswant as co-driver, and in 1974 and 1976 driving a Mitsubishi Colt Lancer 1600 GSR. The eldest of ten children born to Sardar Battan Singh and Sardarni Swaran Kaur, he was educated at a boarding school in Nairobi. - Wolf Biermann
Karl Wolf Biermann (born 15 November 1936 in Hamburg) is a former East German dissident who works as a German Liedermacher (songwriter). Biermann's father, who worked in the Hamburg docks, was a member of the Communist resistance. In 1943 he was murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp as a Jew who had sabotaged Nazi warships. Wolf Biermann was one of the few children of workers who attended the "Heinrich-Hertz-Gymnasium" (high school) in Hamburg. - George E. Walker
George E. Walker, the great-great grandfather of President George H.W. Bush, was born in New Jersey or Maryland ca. 1797. According to one source he was sent as an orphan by his guardian to Mount Saint Mary’s College (now university) boarding school in Emmitsburg Maryland in 1811 and 1812. He married Harriet Mercer (Maryland 1802 – Bloomington IL -1869) in Baltimore in 1821. The family moved from Cecil County, Maryland, to McLean County, Illinois, in 1838. - Peter Fitzgerald
Peter G. Fitzgerald (born October 20, 1960) was the junior United States Senator from Illinois from 1999 until 2005. He is a member of the Republican Party. He previously served in the Illinois State Senate from 1992 to 1998, where he was a member of the 'Fab Five' group of conservative state senators who often challenged the leadership of the Illinois Republican party. The group also included Steve Rauschenberger, Dave Syverson, Patrick O'Malley, and Chris Lauzen. - Piers Akerman
Piers Akerman is a conservative columnist for the Australian News Limited newspaper "The Daily Telegraph". He was born in New Guinea, but raised in Perth, in Western Australia, by his parents John and Eve Akerman. The third son in a family of four children, Akerman attended Guildford Grammar School, then became a boarder at Christ Church Grammar School, where he remained until the end of his schooling. According to a "Sunday Age" profile on Akerman, … - Terri Walker
Terri Walker is a British soul singer. Terri released two albums in the UK, "Untitled" and "L.O.V.E". Both albums, however, failed to reach the Top 75. She also provided the majority of the vocals for Shanks & Bigfoot's debut album "Swings & Roundabouts". Her third album, entitled "I Am" was released on 15th May 2006, following the release of her fourth single, "Alright With Me". - Lucy M. Boston
Lucy Maria Boston (1892-1990) was a British author noted for her longevity; she did not have her first book published until she was over 60. She is best known for her Green Knowe books, inspired by her home The Manor, one of the oldest permanently inhabited houses in Britain (illustrated by her son Peter Boston (1918- 1999)). Born Lucy Wood in Southport, Lancashire, and educated at a girls' boarding school on the Sussex coast, she married Harold Boston in 1917, … - Diana Barrymore
Diana Barrymore was an American actress. - Gila Golan
Gila Golan (born 1940) was an Israeli fashion model and Hollywood film actress. Born in Krakow, Poland, in 1940, she was adopted by a Roman Catholic family that found her left in a bundle at a train station during the Holocaust. Her adopted family sent her to be educated in a monastery. Arriving in Israel after World War II with the name Zusia Sobetzcki, she became Miriam Goldberg and continued her schooling in an Orthodox girls' boarding school. - Jill Esmond
Jill Esmond (26 January, 1908 - 28 July, 1990) was an English actress. Esmond was born in London, the daughter of stage actors Henry V. Esmond and Eva Moore. While her parents toured with theatre companies, Esmond spent her childhood in boarding schools until she decided at the age of fourteen to become an actress. She made her stage debut playing Wendy to Gladys Cooper's Peter Pan but her success was shortlived. - Sonya Balmores
Sonya Balmores (born 1986) is an actress and beauty queen from Kalaheo, Hawaii who has competed in the Miss Teen USA pageant. Balmores won the Miss Hawaii Teen USA title on May 16, 2004 at the Waikiki Sheraton Resort, at the same time Jennifer Fairbank was crowned Miss Hawaii USA 2005. Balmores represented Hawaii in the Miss Teen USA 2004 pageant held in Palm Springs, California on August 6, 2004. She placed first runner-up in the nationally televised pageant, … - Tamim Ansary
Mir Tamim Ansary is an Afghan-American author and speaker. He is the author of West of Kabul, East of New York, a book published shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. Ansary was born in Afghanistan and lived there until high school, when he won a scholarship to an American boarding school, Colorado Rocky Mountain School. - Perry Henzell
Perry Henzell (b. March 7 1936, Annotto Bay, St. Mary's, Jamaica - d. November 30 2006, Treasure Beach, St. Elizabeth's, Jamaica) was most famous for being the director of the first Jamaican feature film, "The Harder They Come" (1972). Henzell, whose ancestors included Huguenot glassblowers and an old English family who had made their fortune growing sugar on Antigua, grew up on the Caymanas sugar cane estate near Kingston.
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