- Anna Kournikova
Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova (Russian: Анна Сергеевна Курникова, "Anna Sergeevna Kurnikova;" born June 7, 1981) is a retired Russian professional tennis player and model. Although she never won a major singles tournament, she became one of the best known tennis players worldwide. At the peak of her fame, fans looking for images of Kournikova made her name (or misspellings of it) one of the most common search strings on Google. - Michael Vartan
Michael Vartan (b. November 27, 1968) is a French-American film and television actor. - David Charvet
David Charvet (born David Franck Guez on May 15, 1972 in Lyon, France) is an actor and singer. David's father is Tunisian-born French-Jewish businessman Paul Guez. His mother, Christiane Charvet is of French ancestry and was born in France. He and his siblings grew up speaking French as their first language. When David was nine years-old, his parents split and he moved with his father to the United States. - Maria Sharapova
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova (born April 19, 1987) is a Russian professional tennis player and a former World No. 1. She is currently the second ranked player in the world. At the end of 2006, she was the world's highest-paid female athlete. Sharapova has won two Grand Slam singles titles. She is the reigning U.S. Open champion, having defeated Justine Henin in the final of the 2006 U.S. Open. Two years earlier, she defeated Serena Williams in the final at Wimbledon. - Goran Višnjić
Goran Višnjić (pronounced // ('VISH-nyich')) (born September 9, 1972) is a Croatian actor who has appeared in American film and television productions. His most prominent role may be that of Dr. Luka Kovač in the hit television series "ER". - Jim Dale
Jim Dale MBE (born James Smith on August 15, 1935) is an English actor, singer, and songwriter who is best known for his roles in the "Carry On" films and as the narrator of the Harry Potter audiobook series in the United States. He was born in Rothwell, Northamptonshire. - Enrico Colantoni
Enrico Colantoni (born February 14, 1963 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian actor who starred in the sitcom "Just Shoot Me!", playing the womanizing fashion photographer Elliot DiMauro. More recently, he portrayed the role of Keith Mars on the Rob Thomas television series "Veronica Mars". He also had supporting roles in such films as "The Wrong Guy", "Galaxy Quest", … - Julie Delpy
Julie Delpy (born December 21, 1969) is a French/American actress, singer and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter. - Hal Foster
Harold ("Hal") Rudolf Foster (August 18, 1892 in Halifax, Nova Scotia - July 25, 1982) was a Canadian-American cartoonist most famous as the creator of the comic strip "Prince Valiant". He worked as a staff artist for the Hudson Bay Company and moved to Chicago in 1919, where he studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. He subsequently worked as an illustrator before getting involved with "Tarzan", an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's novels. - John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980), was an Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning English songwriter, singer, musician, graphic artist, author and political activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of The Beatles. Lennon and Paul McCartney formed a critically acclaimed and commercially successful partnership writing songs for The Beatles and other artists. Lennon, with his cynical edge and knack for introspection, and McCartney, … - James Creelman
James Creelman (November 12, 1859 - February 12, 1915), was a reporter during the height of yellow journalism. He was born in Montreal, Canada, the son of a boiler inspector, Matthew Creelman, and homemaker, Martha Dunwoodie. In 1872, Creelman moved to New York, where his interest in literature and law attracted the patronage of Thomas De Witt Talmage and Republican party boss Roscoe Conking. - Roger Cross
Roger R. Cross (born October 19, 1966 in Christiana, Jamaica) is a contemporary actor who has made numerous appearances in several movies and TV series, mostly on productions shot in Canada. The fourth of five children, Cross was born in Jamaica but moved to Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada with his parents and siblings when he was eleven. He graduated in 1989 with a degree in Aviation and General Studies from Trinity Western University in Langley, … - David Beckham
David Robert Joseph Beckham, OBE (pronounced) (born 2 May 1975) is an English professional football (soccer) midfielder who plays for Major League Soccer's Los Angeles Galaxy. He is also currently a member of the England national team. He was twice chosen runner-up for FIFA World Player of the Year, and as recently as 2004 was the world's highest-paid footballer. He was Google's most searched of all sports topics in both 2003 and 2004. - Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir (September 15, 1894 - February 12, 1979), born in the Montmartre district of Paris, France, was a film director, actor and author. He was the second son of Aline Charigot and the French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. He was also the brother of Pierre Renoir, a noted French stage and film actor; the uncle of Claude Renoir, a cinematographer; and the father of Alain Renoir, a professor emeritus of comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley. - Jesse Spencer
Jesse Gordon Spencer (born 12 February 1979) is an Australian actor known most recently for his role as Dr. Robert Chase in the medical drama "House". - Henry Champ
Henry Champ LLD (born 1939 in Brandon, Manitoba) is a veteran Canadian broadcast journalist and currently a correspondent for the CBC Newsworld based in Washington, DC. Champ was previously a correspondent for NBC News for ten years before moving to Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1993 to become an anchor for CBC News: Morning. Before moving to the United States, he worked at CTV for the previous fifteen years. He also contributed to "W-FIVE" between 1978 and 1982. - Sean Yazbeck
Sean Yazbeck (born 1972 in London, England) is a businessman, actor, and the winner of the fifth season of the reality show, "The Apprentice", where candidates compete in several tasks on a 15-week "job interview" for a position in one of billionaire Donald Trump's companies. He is the first non-American to be selected during the run of The Apprentice. - Shaun Toub
Shaun Toub is a film and television actor. He was raised in Manchester, England. At the age of 14, he moved to Switzerland and after a two year stay, he crossed the Atlantic to Nashua, New Hampshire to finish his last year of high school. His high school yearbook notes: "The Funniest guy in school and the most likely to succeed in the entertainment world." After two years of college in Massachusetts, Shaun transferred to USC. - Solomon Adler
Solomon Adler (or Sol Adler was born in Great Britain and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1936, when he obtained employment in the United States Department of the Treasury. Adler also was a Soviet spy who supplied information to the Silvermaster espionage ring. Adler served in China and shared a house with Chi Ch’ao ting and "China hand" John S. Service. - Charles John Seghers
Charles John Seghers (sometimes written as "Charles Jean Seghers") (December 26, 1839, Ghent, Belgium - November 28, 1886, Bishop's Rock, Canada) was a Belgian clergyman and missionary bishop. He is considered to be the founder of the Alaska Mission. - Lillian Allen
Lillian Allen (born April 5, 1951) is a Canadian dub poet. Born in Spanish Town, Jamaica, she left that country in 1969, first moving to New York City, where she studied at the City University of New York. She lived for a time in Kitchener, Ontario, before settling in Toronto, Ontario, where she continued her education at York University. She released her first recording, "Dub Poet: The Poetry of Lillian Allen", in 1983. - John Rushby
Dr. John Rushby Program Director SRI International - Anna Vissi
Anna Vissi is a Cypriot-Greek singer, famous mainly in Greece, and her home country Cyprus, with success in the United States as well. - John Cleese
John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award winning English comedian and actor. He is best known for being one of the founding members of the renowned comedy group Monty Python, and as the writer and star of the popular television comedy "Fawlty Towers". He has won BAFTA and Emmy awards, and was an Academy Award nominated screen writer for his film, "A Fish Called Wanda". - Marcus Samuelsson
Marcus Samuelsson is a Swedish chef, born 1970 in Ethiopia, resident in the United States. He is the executive chef and co-owner of Aquavit restaurants in New York City and Minneapolis. - Millicent Martin
Millicent Mary Lillian Martin (born 8 June, 1934) in Romford, Essex is an English actor, singer and comedian. During the early 1960s, Martin became well-known to television audiences as the resident singer of topical songs on the weekly satire show "That Was The Week That Was". She also appeared in the 1966 film "Alfie". She had her own television series on the BBC between 1964 and 1966 titled Mainly Millicent the first two seasons, … - Alasdair MacIntyre
Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (born January 12, 1929 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a philosopher primarily known for his contribution to moral and political philosophy but known also for his work in history of philosophy and theology. - Simon Cowell
Simon Cowell (born 7 October, 1959) is an English artist and repertoire ("A&R") executive for Sony BMG in the United Kingdom, but is known as a judge on television programs such as "Pop Idol", "The X Factor", "American Idol" and "Britain's Got Talent". He is notorious for his unsparingly blunt and often controversial criticism of the contestants. He is known for combining activities in the television and music industries, … - Christiane Amanpour
Christiane Amanpour, CBE (born January 12, 1958) (in) is the chief international correspondent for CNN. - John Mayall
John Mayall, OBE (born November 29 1933) is a pioneering English blues singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He was the founder of John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers and has been influential in the careers of many instrumentalists, including Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Peter Green, John McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Mick Taylor, Don Harris, Harvey Mandel, Larry Taylor, Aynsley Dunbar, Jon Hiseman, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Andy Fraser, Walter Trout, Coco Montoya, Johnny Almond, … - Robert Hughes
Robert Studley Forrest Hughes AO, (born July 28, 1938), who is usually known as Robert Hughes, is an art critic, writer and television documentary maker. Hughes has lived in New York for over 30 years. - Elie Abel
Elie Abel (October 17 1920 - 22 July 2004) was a Canadian-American journalist, author and academic. He lived in Palo Alto, California, United States. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill University in 1941 and a Master of Science in journalism degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 1942. He worked as a newspaperman in Windsor, Ontario for a year, … - Addington Bruce
(Henry) Addington (Bayley) Bruce (1874-1959) was an American journalist and author, born in Toronto, Canada, and educated at Upper Canada College and Trinity College, Toronto. He was for a time on the Toronto "Week", then came to the United States, was employed by the American Press Association between 1897 and 1903, and afterward contributed to many periodicals, notably "The Outlook". In 1916 he resigned as staff contributor to "The Outlook". - Ida Rhodes
Ida Rhodes (15 may, 1900 - 1 February 1986) was a mathematician who became a member of the clique of influential women at the heart of early computer development in the United States. Rhodes (birth name Hadassah Itzkowitz) was born in 1900 in the Ukraine. She came to the United States in 1913 and was studying math at Cornell University only six years later. She received her BA in mathematics in February, 1923 and her MA in September of the same year, … - Barbro Osher
Barbro Osher (born May 21,1940 in Stockholm) is the Swedish Consul General in San Francisco and a well-known philanthropist, chairman of the Bernard Osher Foundation and of the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation. Together with her husband Bernard Osher she gave the third largest contribution to charity in 2006, according to the online magazine Slate. Barbro Osher is also the owner and publisher of Vestkusten, a Swedish-American newspaper. - Monie Love
Simone Wilson or Simone Gooden (born July 2, 1970, in London) known by her stage name Monie Love, is a female, English rapper and former radio personality in the United States. Love was a well respected figure in British hip hop, and made an impact with American hip hop audiences as a protégé of female American rapper Queen Latifah, as well as through her membership in the late 1980s/early 1990s Native Tongues Posse. - Espen Knutsen
Espen Knutsen (born January 12, 1972 in Oslo) is a former Norwegian ice hockey player. He played five seasons in the NHL, and is to date the only Norwegian to have played in the NHL All-Star Game. In his native Norway, Knutsen is also known by the nickname "Shampoo" (his father is a hairdresser). He is 6 feet tall (183 cm), weighs 187 lb (85 kg), shoots left and played the centre position during his professional career. - Peter Carey
Peter Philip Carey (born May 7, 1943) is an Australian novelist. Born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, and after living in Melbourne, London and Sydney, he is now based in New York. He attended the prestigious Geelong Grammar School. He wrote advertising copy in the early days of his literary career. He also collaborated on the screenplay of the film "Until the End of the World". - Albert Benjamin Simpson
Albert Benjamin Simpson was a Canadian preacher, theologian, author, and founder of The Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA), an evangelical protestant denomination with an emphasis on global evangelism. - Elton Mayo
George Elton Mayo (born Adelaide, December 26 1880; died September 7 1949) was a psychologist and sociologist. He lectured at the University of Queensland from 1919 to 1923 then moved to the University of Pennsylvania, but spent most of his career at Harvard Business School (1926 to 1947) where he was professor of industrial research.
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