- C. C. Little
Clarence Cook "C.C." Little was an American genetics, cancer, and tobacco researcher. He was born in Brookline, Massachusetts and attended Harvard University. While studying under W. E. Castle, Little began his work with mice, focused on inheritance, transplants, and grafts. He also was an assistant dean and secretary to the president. His most important research occurred at Harvard, including what some call his most brilliant work, … - Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. was the 38th President (1974–1977), and 40th Vice President (1973–1974) of the United States. Ford was the first person appointed to the vice presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment. Upon succession to the presidency, Ford became the only person to hold that office without having been elected either President or Vice President. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower, born David Dwight Eisenhower was an American General and politician, who served as the thirty-fourth President of the United States (1953–1961). During the Second World War, he served as Supreme Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, with responsibility for planning and supervising the successful invasion of France and Germany in 1944-45. In 1951, he became the first supreme commander of NATO. - Jean Mayer
Jean Mayer (February 19, 1920 - January 1, 1993) was a renowned French-American nutritionist and the tenth president of Tufts University from 1976 to 1992. During his lifetime, Mayer was known as a leading expert and activist on hunger issues. Mayer was the son of French physiologists Jeanne Eugenie Mayer and Andre Mayer, one of the founding members of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. - Mel Blanc
Melvin Jerome Blanc was a prolific American voice actor, performing on radio, in television commercials, and most famously, in hundreds of theatrical animated shorts for Warner Bros. during the Golden Age of American animation--and later for Hanna-Barbera television productions. He is regarded as one of the most gifted and influential persons in his field, providing the definitive voices for iconic characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, … - Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 - May 14, 1998) was an American jazz oriented popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor. Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid 1940s, being the idol of the 'bobby soxers'. His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. - 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. - 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. - Steve Allen
Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen was an American musician, comedian and writer instrumental in innovating the concept of the television talk show. Allen is called the father of TV talk shows. - Bo Schembechler
Glenn Edward "Bo" Schembechler (April 1 1929 - November 17 2006) was an American college football coach best known as the head coach at the University of Michigan, where he coached the Wolverines from 1969 until 1989. Schembechler won a total of 234 games; only Joe Paterno and Tom Osborne have recorded 200 victories in fewer games. A consummate "coach's coach", Schembechler combined superb technical command of the game with a fiery disposition. - Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to as LBJ, was the thirty-sixth President of the United States (1963–1969). After serving a long career in the U.S. Congress, Johnson became the thirty-seventh Vice President, and in 1963, he succeeded to the presidency following President John F. Kennedy's assassination. He was a major leader of the Democratic Party and as President was responsible for designing his Great Society, … - Estée Lauder
Estée Lauder was the co-founder, with her husband Joseph Lauder, of Estée Lauder Companies, a pioneering cosmetics company. She was born Josephine Esther Mentzer in Corona, Queens, New York, the daughter of Hungarian Jewish immigrants. She was the only woman on "Time" magazine's 1998 list of the 20 most influential business geniuses of the 20th century. She was the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She married Joseph Lauter in 1930. - Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American literature and cinema for over 61 years, writing a wide variety of plays, including celebrated plays such as "The Crucible", "A View from the Bridge", "All My Sons", and "Death of a Salesman", which are still studied and performed worldwide. - Martin van Buren
Martin Van Buren (December 5 1782 - July 24 1862), nicknamed "Old Kinderhook", was the eighth President of the United States from 1837 to 1841. Before his presidency he served as the eighth Vice President (1833-1837) and the 10th Secretary of State under Andrew Jackson. He was a key organizer of the Democratic Party, a dominant figure in the Second Party System, and the first president who was not of English, Irish, Welsh, or Scottish descent. - Chiang Kai-Shek
Chiang Kai-shek (October 31, 1887 - April 5, 1975) was the Chinese military and political leader who assumed the leadership of the Kuomintang (KMT) after the death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925. He led the national government of the Republic of China (ROC) from 1928 to 1975. He commanded the Northern Expedition to unify China against the warlords and emerged victorious in 1928 as the overall leader of the Republic of China. Chiang led China in the Second Sino-Japanese War, … - William Sloane Coffin
Rev. William Sloane Coffin, Jr. was a liberal Christian clergyman and long-time peace activist with international stature. He was ordained in the Presbyterian church and later received ministerial standing in the United Church of Christ. In his younger days he was a superb athlete, a highly talented pianist, a CIA agent, and later chaplain of Yale University, … - Roy Rogers
Leonard Franklin Slye (November 5, 1911 - July 6, 1998), who became famous as Roy Rogers, was a singer and cowboy actor. He and his second wife Dale Evans, his golden palomino Trigger, and his German shepherd, Bullet, were featured in over one hundred movies and "The Roy Rogers Show". The show ran on radio for nine years before moving to television from 1951 through 1957. His productions usually featured two sidekicks, Pat Brady, … - Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck (July 16 1907 - January 20 1990) was an American actress of film, stage, and screen - Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 - April 25, 1995) was an Academy Award-winning American film and stage actress and singer. In a film career spanning fifty years she made a total of seventy-three films, and is now principally celebrated for her role as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre. - Wilhelm Reich
Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Reich was a respected analyst for much of his life, focusing on character structure, rather than on individual neurotic symptoms. He promoted adolescent sexuality, the availability of contraceptives and abortion, and the importance for women of economic independence. One biographer, Myron Sharaf, writes that Reich's work left a deep impression on influential thinkers such as Alexander Lowen, Fritz Perls, … - Howard Cosell
Howard William Cosell, born Howard William Cohen was an American sports journalist on American television. His abrasive personality and tendency to speak his mind, often in erudite terms unusual for a sportscaster, made him, according to one poll, both the most-liked and most-hated television reporter in the country. - Chiang Ching-Kuo
Chiang Ching-kuo (April 27<sup>1</sup>, 1910 – January 13, 1988), Kuomintang (KMT) politician and leader, was the son of President Chiang Kai-shek and held numerous posts in the government of the Republic of China (ROC). He succeeded his father to power, serving as Premier of the Republic of China from 1972 to 1978, and President of the Republic of China from 1978 until his death in 1988. Under his tenure, the government of the Republic of China, … - Benny Hill
Alfred Hawthorn Hill (21 January 1924 - 19 April 1992), better known as Benny Hill, was a prolific English comic, actor and singer, best known for his television programme, "The Benny Hill Show". - Ray Kroc
Raymond Albert Kroc (October 5, 1902 - January 14, 1984) was an American entrepreneur, famous for significantly expanding the McDonald's Corporation from 1955. He did not actually found the restaurant chain itself, however; it was started by Richard and Maurice (Mac) McDonald in 1940. - Henry M. Jackson
Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson (May 31, 1912 - September 1, 1983) was a U.S. Congressman and Senator for Washington State from 1941 until his death. Jackson was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972 and 1976. As a Cold War anti-Communist Democrat, Jackson's political philosophies and positions have been cited as an influence on a number of key figures associated with neoconservatism, including Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle - Alfred A. Knopf
Alfred A. Knopf (September 12, 1892 - August 11, 1984) was a leading American publisher of the 20th century, founder of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.. His contemporaries included the likes of Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, and (of the previous generation) Frank Nelson Doubleday, J. Henry Harper and Henry Holt. Knopf paid special attention to the quality of printing, binding, and design in his books, and earned a reputation as a purist in both content and presentation. - Alan Reed
Alan Reed was an American actor and voice artist, best known as the original voice of Fred Flintstone on "The Flintstones" and various spin-off series. He also appeared in "Breakfast at Tiffany's", "Viva Zapata!", "Nob Hill" and various other films. Born Teddy Bergman in New York City, he majored in journalism at Columbia University, and then began his acting career in the city, eventually working on Broadway. - Isabel Sanford
Isabel Sanford (August 29, 1917, New York City- July 9, 2004, Los Angeles, California, USA) was an African-American actress most famous for her role as Louise "Weezie" Jefferson on the CBS television sitcoms "All in the Family" (1971-1975) and "The Jeffersons" (1975-1985). Sanford played the role of Louise Jefferson for a total of 14 years. Born Eloise Gwendolyn Sanford in New York City, … - Paul Frees
Paul Frees (June 22, 1920 - November 2, 1986) was an American voice actor. - Sidney Frank
Frank's first big success with his own company was with Jacques Cardin brandy, a brand he purchased from Seagram in 1979 . In the 1980s , he obtained importing rights to Jägermeister and promoted it heavily, advertising it as the best drink in the world, turning a specialty brand into a mainstream success. In 1997 , he introduced Grey Goose vodka, made in France, and was so successful in promoting it that he sold the brand to Bacardi for $2 billion in June 2004 . - Hans Conried
Hans Conried was a comic character actor and voice actor. Born Hans Georg Conried, Jr. in Baltimore, Maryland of Jewish descent. He was raised there and in New York City. He studied acting at Columbia University and went on to play many major classical roles onstage. He worked in radio before breaking into movies in 1939. He was also a member of the Orson Welles Mercury Theatre Company. - Dean Jagger
Dean Jagger (7 November 1903 - 5 February 1991) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. Born Ira Dean Jagger in Columbus Grove, Ohio, Jagger made his film debut in "The Woman from Hell" (1929) with Mary Astor. He became a successful character actor, without becoming a major star, and appeared in almost 100 films in a career that lasted until shortly before his death. - Robert Abel
Robert Abel was a pioneer in visual effects and computer animation, best known for the work of his company, Robert Abel and Associates. Born in Cleveland, he received degrees in Design and Film from UCLA. He began his work in computer graphics in the 1950s, as an apprentice to John Whitney. In the 1960s and early 1970s, Abel wrote or directed several films, including The Making of The President: 1968, Elvis on Tour, and Let the Good Times Roll. - Cecil B. Demille
Cecil Blount DeMille was a very successful American filmmaker in the first half of the 20th century. - Harpo Marx
Adolph Arthur Marx, popularly known as Harpo Marx, (November 23, 1888 - September 28, 1964) was one of the Marx Brothers, a group of Vaudeville and Broadway theatre entertainers who later achieved fame as comedians in the Motion Picture industry. He was well known by his trademarks: he played the harp; he never talked during performances, although he often blew a horn or whistled to communicate with people; and he frequently used props. - John Ritter
Johnathan Southworth Ritter (September 17, 1948 - September 11, 2003) was an American actor and comedian best known for his role of Jack Tripper in the sitcom "Three's Company". - Jack Warden
Jack Warden, was an Emmy Award-winning, Oscar-nominated American character actor. - Buddy Rich
Bernard "Buddy" Rich (September 30 1917 Brooklyn, New York - April 2 1987) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Rich was billed as "the world's greatest drummer" and was known for his virtuoso technique, power, speed and ability to improvise. - Adlai Stevenson
Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (February 5, 1900 - July 14, 1965) was an American politician, noted for intellectual demeanor and advocacy of liberal causes in the Democratic party. He served one term as governor of Illinois and lost, by landslides, in two races for president against Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956. He was Ambassador to the United Nations, 1961-65. - Peter Lawford
Peter Sydney Lawford (September 7, 1923 - December 24, 1984) was a British-born Hollywood actor, member of Frank Sinatra's "Rat Pack," and brother-in-law to President John F. Kennedy, perhaps more noted in later years for his off-screen activities as a celebrity than for his acting. In his earlier professional years (late 1930s through the 1950s) he had a strong presence in popular culture and starred in a number of highly acclaimed films.
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