- Martin Scorsese
Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, writer and producer and founder of the World Cinema Foundation. He is also a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won an Academy Award as well as awards from the Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian American identity, …
- Amanda Peet
Amanda Peet (born January 11, 1972) is an American film and television actress.
- Rosario Dawson
Rosario Dawson (born May 9, 1979) is an American actress and occasional singer known for her roles in films such as "Sin City", "Rent", "Clerks II", "Alexander", and "Grindhouse".
- Boris Johnson
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, MP (born 19 June 1964, New York), better known as Boris Johnson, is a British Conservative Party politician and journalist. Known for his eccentric public persona, he is Member of Parliament for Henley and was for a time front-bench spokesman as Shadow Minister for Higher Education.
- Matthew Broderick
Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962) is a Tony Award-winning American film and stage actor who is perhaps best known for his role as the title character in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off". He also received considerable acclaim for his role as Leo Bloom in "The Producers".
- 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.
- Larry Ellison
Lawrence Joseph Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major database software company.
- Oscar Hijuelos
Oscar Hijuelos (born August 24 1951) is an American novelist. He is the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Hijuelos was born in New York City, in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, to Cuban immigrant parents. He studied writing at City College of New York and practiced various professions before taking up writing full time. His first novel, "Our House in the Last World", was published in 1983 and received the 1985 Rome Prize, …
- Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., also known as T.R. and to the public (but never to friends and intimates) as Teddy, was the twenty-sixth President of the United States, and a leader of the Republican Party and of the Progressive Movement, as well as being the youngest President in United States history, at age 42. He served in many roles including Governor of New York, historian, naturalist, explorer, author, and soldier.
- Stanley Elkin
Stanley Elkin (May 11, 1930 - May 31, 1995) was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. His extravagant, satirical fiction revolves around American consumerism, popular culture, and male-female relationships.
- Orville Schell
Orville Schell is a longtime China observer and dean of the graduate school of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. Five days after the Tiananmen massacre, Deng Xiaoping reappeared in public. As any autocrat in his situation would have, he condemned the student demonstrators and praised the troops who had crushed them.
- Lew Soloff
Lew Soloff (born February 20, 1944 in New York City) is a jazz trumpeter. He studied trumpet at the Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard School. He is likely best known for his work with Blood, Sweat & Tears from 1968 to 1973. Prior to this, he worked with Machito, Gil Evans , Tony Scott , and Tito Puente .
- 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.
- Drew Gilpin Faust
Historian Drew Gilpin Faust '68 will shatter one of America's oldest glass ceilings when she becomes the first woman to lead Harvard University in the school's 371-year history. Her appointment as president was unanimously approved by Harvard's Board of Overseers on Sunday, Feb. 11, after a highly publicized, yearlong search.
- Stockard Channing
Stockard Channing has received two Emmy Awards out of nine nominations, an Academy Award nomination, two SAG Awards out of nine nominations, and a Tony Award. She earned her Academy Award nomination and one of her Golden Globe nominations when she reprised her Tony-nominated performance in the film version of "Six Degrees of Separation." She received a SAG Award nomination for the film "Smoke" and won a People's Choice Award for her role in "Grease."
- Crawford Kilian
Born in New York City in 1941, Crawford Kilian grew up in Los Angeles and Mexico City. He graduated from Columbia University in 1962, and after serving in the US Army from 1963 to 1965, he moved the British Columbia in 1967. Since then he has taught at Capilano College in North Vancouver, B.C. Crawford Kilian has published nonfiction, children's books, textbooks, and novels. The second edition of his book on the black pioneers of British Columbia will appear in 2008.
- Sylvester Stallone
SO IT'S LIKE THIS...
- Viggo Mortensen
Young Viggo was an artistic kid, always to be seen with a pencil and paper on hand. This would continue back in New York State when, his parents divorcing in 1969, he and his brothers would move with their mother from Argentina back to Watertown.
- Gray Davis
Described by the San Jose Mercury News as "perhaps the best-trained Governor-in-waiting California has ever produced," Governor Gray Davis has made improving public education his administration's number-one priority. As his first official act as Governor, he called a special session of the Legislature to address his proposals to ensure that every child can read by age 9, strengthen teacher training and education, and increase accountability in the schools.
- Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt was one of those teachers who fell into the job whilst secretly wishing he could do something else (in his case, a writer - an ambition he has now achieved). As a result this is a curious memoir of a man who has spent many years reluctantly at the chalk face. He conveys something of the workload of a typical classroom teacher: all that lesson planning and marking; and also the difficulties of idealistic teacher battling with technocratic school authorities.
- Herbert Aaron Hauptman
Herbert A. Hauptman , Ph.D. President, Nobel Laureate Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute
- Tony Kushner
Mr. Kushner is a leading playwright and a major voice in American Theatre who has won a Pulitzer Prize for drama, two Tony Awards for Best Play and an Emmy. ... Tony Kushner has been hailed as one of the leading playwrights of his generation and is a major voice in American Theatre.
- Gertrude B. Elion
Gertrude Belle Elion (January 23, 1918 - February 21, 1999) was an American biochemist and pharmacologist, and a 1988 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Born in New York City to Jewish immigrant parents, she graduated from Hunter College in 1937 and New York University (M.Sc.) in 1941. Unable to obtain a graduate research position due to her sex, she worked as a lab assistant and a high school teacher, …
- Jerry Fodor
Jerry Alan Fodor (born 1935) is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist currently teaching at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He is the author of many works in the fields of philosophy of mind and cognitive science in which he laid the groundwork for the modularity of mind and the language of thought hypotheses, among other ideas. Fodor argues that mental states, such as beliefs and desires, are relations between individuals and mental representations.
- Peter Lieberson
Peter Lieberson came to prominence in the mid-1980s with the Piano Concerto and Drala, two major commissions from the Boston Symphony, with whom he still enjoys a fruitful collaboration. Of profound influence on his music has been his practice of Tibetan Buddhism. Since 1980 many of his works have been inspired by Buddhist themes such as King Gesar (1991) and the opera Ashoka's Dream (1997), both from a series of works based on the lives of enlightened rulers.
- Emmy Rossum
Emmy Rossum , the star of 'Phantom Of The Opera' had to face up to her biggest fear of her life, swimming underwater. Emmy Rossum had to learn how to scuba dive and free dive for her new film 'Poseidon'. Emmy also had to learn how to stay calm when holding her breath. Emmy Rossum said.... It was probably the hardest thing I ever had to do. I had to learn to scuba dive and free dive.
- Lee Krasner
Lee Krasner (October 27, 1908 - June 19, 1984) was an influential abstract expressionist painter in the second half of the 20th Century. In 1945, Krasner married artist Jackson Pollock, who was also influential in the Abstract Expressionism movement.
- Carrie van Dyck
Carrie Van Dyck was born in New York City and lived in Bridgeport, Connecticut until she was five. Her mother, Eva, had spent part of World War II in a French internment camp near the Spanish border before escaping and emigrating to America. Her father, Herbert, an optician by training, was stationed during the war in England with the Royal Air Force. While she was still small, Carrie's family moved to Mamaroneck on the north shore of Long Island Sound in New York.
- Seymour Chwast
Seymour Chwast is an illustrator and graphic designer. He, along with Milton Glaser and Edward Sorel founded Push Pin Studios in 1954. Along with Glaser, Chwast created "The Push Pin Graphic", an award-winning bi-monthly publication from the Push Pin Studios which achieved a worldwide reputation. He has since done many posters, food packaging, magazine covers and publicity art.
- Madeleine L'Engle
"I was born in New York City on the snowy night of November 29, 1918, shortly after the first World War, and think it's the nicest place in the world to be born in. I grew up on East 82nd Street. ... Madeleine L'Engle is a writer who resists easy classification. She has successfully published plays... more
- Bruce Gelb
Bruce Gelb is currently a Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Madison Square Boys and Girls Club; a Life Trustee of Choate Rosemary Hall; a Board member of the United Nations Development Corporation; a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Council on Science and Health; Honorary Chairman and a Regent of the Center for Security Policy; and a member of the Advisory Board of the USC Center on Public Diplomacy.
- George Morris Blake
Son of Ben K. Blake Father of Bill Blake
- Sidney Drew
His mother claimed he was adopted, perhaps because her husband had been away touring for several years before Sidney's birth and was dead before the great event took place. Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore and John Barrymore, his niece and nephews, insisted he looked too much like "Mummum" to have been anybody else's child. But the mystery continues--there's a rumor he was born at sea (!) and even his date of birth is in doubt. The young Barrymores were largely raised by Sidney's mother...
- Adam Green
Singer-songwriter. He has performed as both a solo artist and as a member of "The Moldy Peaches" with Kimya Dawson. Good friends with Julian Casablancas.
- Eric Roth
- Ramesh Iyer
- Monroe Liebgold
- Michael Putney
Michael Putney , Senior Political Reporter, Ch. 10 Dr. Rudy Crew , Supt. , Miami-Dade County Public Schools
- George E. Moose
George E. Moose Adjunct Professor of Practice, The George Washington University
- Suzanne Diaz