- Joel Fuhrman
Joel Fuhrman is an American family medicine physician and author. He maintains a medical practice in Flemington, New Jersey, and specializes in treating some major illnesses through nutrition and changes in diet. - Ancel Keys
Ancel Benjamin Keys (January 26, 1904 - November 20, 2004) was an American scientist who studied the influence of diet on health. In particular, he hypothesised that different kinds of dietary fat had different effects on health. In addition to his role in establishing modern cardiovascular disease (CVD) epidemiology, Keys was closely associated with two famous diets: K-rations, formulated as balanced meals for combat soldiers in World War II; and the "Mediterranean diet", … - Richard Doll
Sir William Richard Shaboe Doll CH OBE FRS (28 October 1912-24 July 2005) was a British physiologist who became the foremost epidemiologist of the 20th century, turning the subject into a rigorous science. He was a pioneer in research linking smoking to health problems. With Ernst Wynder, Bradford Hill and Evarts Graham, he was the first in the modern world to prove that smoking caused lung cancer and increased the risk of heart disease. - Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of the macabre and mystery, Poe was one of the early American practitioners of the short story and a progenitor of detective fiction and crime fiction. He is also credited with contributing to the emergent science fiction genre. Poe died at the age of 40. - Dave Williams
David (Dave) Williams (February 29, 1972 - August 14, 2002) was the singer for the band Drowning Pool. He was born in Princeton, Texas to Charles Edward and Jo-Ann Williams, and was a fixture in the Dallas music scene throughout the 1990s playing in well-known clubs. In 1999, he joined Drowning Pool. The band released the album "Sinner" in 2001. In 2002 he died due to an apparent heart failure. - Michael Palmer
Michael Stephen Palmer, M.D. (born October 9, 1942, Springfield, Massachusetts, United States), is the author of 12 novels, often called the "Medical thrillers series". He trained in internal medicine at Boston City and Massachusetts General Hospitals, spent twenty years as a full-time practitioner of internal and emergency medicine, and is now an associate director of the Massachusetts Medical Society's physician health program. - Earl Derr Biggers
Earl Derr Biggers (August 24, 1884 - April 5, 1933) was an American novelist and playwright best known through adaptations of his novels, especially those featuring the Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan. The son of Robert J. and Emma E. (Derr) Biggers, he was born in Warren, Ohio, and graduated from Harvard University in 1907. Many of his plays and novels were made into movies. - Jane Tomlinson
Jane Tomlinson, CBE is a British campaigner and fund raiser for cancer charities. She is a graduate of Sheffield Hallam University with a postgraduate certificate in medical imaging practice in 2002, and works as a radiographer at Leeds General Infirmary. As of June 2007 she suffers from advanced metastatic breast cancer; the disease was diagnosed incurable on 31 August 2000. In the last six years she has had four courses of chemotherapy. - Ralph Paffenbarger
Ralph S. Paffenbarger, Jr., MD, DrPH, ScD (b. October 21, 1922 - d. July 9, 2007, Santa Fe, New Mexico) was an epidemiologist, ultramarathoner, and professor at both Stanford University School of Medicine and Harvard University School of Public Health. Dr. Paffenbarger was internationally renowned for his classic study on the improvement in longevity though regular lifetime physical activity, … - Richard Bright
Richard Bright (September 281789 - December 161858) was an English physician and early pioneer in the research of kidney disease. He was born in Bristol, Gloucestershire, the third son of Sarah and Richard Bright Sr., a wealthy merchant and banker. Bright Sr. shared his interest in science with his son, encouraging him to consider it as a career. In 1808, Bright Jr. joined the University of Edinburgh to study philosophy, economics and mathematics, … - Gene Scott
Eugene Lytton Scott (December 28, 1937 - March 20, 2006) was an American tennis player of the 1960s. Gene Scott's highest ranking as an amateur was number 4, in 1963. At the time he was a member of the United States Davis Cup team, and was both teammate and roommate of Arthur Ashe. They remained friends and, with Charlie Pasarell and Sheridan Snyder, founded the National Junior Tennis League in 1969. He founded the magazine "Tennis Week" in 1974. - Dickinson W. Richards
Dr. Dickinson Woodruff Richards, Jr. was an American physician and physiologist. He was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956 with André Cournand and Werner Forssmann for the development of cardiac catheterization and the characterisation of a number of cardiac diseases. Richards was born in Orange, New Jersey. He was educated at the Hotchkiss School in Connecticut, and entered Yale University in 1913. - Clara Smith
Clara Smith (c. 1894 - 2 February, 1935) was a popular blues singer. Clara Smith was born in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. In her youth she worked on African American theater circuits and tent shows. By the late 1910s she was appearing as a headliner at the Lyric Theater in New Orleans and on the T. O. B. A. circuit. In 1923 she settled in New York City, … - David J. Jenkins
David J.A. Jenkins (MD, PhD, DSc) is Professor of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto, Canada. Jenkins is credited with developing the concept of the glycemic index as a way of explaining the way in which dietary carbohydrate impacts blood sugar. His first paper on the subject appeared in the March edition of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1981. Jenkins went on to author at least 15 more clinical studies on the effects of the glycemic index. - Alice Fisher
Alice Fisher (1839 - 1888) was a 19th Century Nursing pioneer, she built her career at the former Philadelphia General Hospital (AKA Blockley Almshouse). Born in England, Fisher trained at the Florence Nightingale Training School at St. Thomas Hospital and served as a superintendent in several hospitals in the UK before coming to the United States in 1884. - George Lutz
George Lee Lutz (1947 - May 8 2006) lived with his wife Kathy Lutz and three of her children, Danny, Christopher and Missy, for 28 days at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville. Their experiences lay the foundation for the book The Amityville Horror. Eventually George and Kathy divorced. George Lutz died on the afternoon of May 8, 2006, of heart disease. - Clifton Daniel
Elbert Clifton Daniel Jr. (September 19, 1912-February 20, 2000) was managing editor of the New York Times. Before assuming the top editorial job at the paper, he served as the paper's London and Moscow bureau chief. Clifton Daniel was married to Harry S. Truman's daughter, Margaret. They married on April 21, 1956 at Trinity Episcopal Church in Independence, Missouri. The couple reared four sons and resided in Washington D.C., and New York City during their marriage. - 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. - Naranjan Dhalla
</gallery>;Naranjan S. Dhalla, C.M., O.M., F.R.S.C. (born 1936) is a Canadian cardiovascular research scientist focusing on cardiovascular pathophysiology and therapy of heart disease. Dr. Naranjan S. Dhalla is recognized as a world leader in heart research. His laboratory employs a variety of experimental models to investigate a wide range of cardiovascular diseases at the subcellular and molecular levels. - Toy Caldwell
Toy Caldwell (13 November 1947 - 25 February 1993) was a guitar player who played with the Marshall Tucker Band between 1973 and 1983. He later formed the Toy Caldwell Band and released an eponymous CD in 1992; the record was later renamed "Son of the South" by Southern rock luminary and Caldwell's personal friend, Charlie Daniels. Caldwell died of heart disease in 1993. - Lyda Roberti
Lyda Roberti (May 20, 1906 - March 12, 1938) was a stage and film actress. Born in Warsaw, Poland, Roberti was the daughter of a clown and as a child performed in the circus as a trapeze artist, and as a vaudeville singer. As the family toured Europe and Asia, Roberti's mother left her husband, settling in Shanghai, China where the younger Roberti earned money singing. They moved to the United States in the late 1920s where Roberti began singing in nightclubs. - Charles Morton
Charles Morton (28 January 1907, Illinois, USA - 26 October 1966, North Hollywood, California, was an American actor. His career started in the late silent era as a leading man and continued into sound features and finally television. Born in Illinois, Morton spent his adolescence in Madison, Wisconsin; receiving his education at Madison High School and the University of Wisconsin. He made his first stage appearance at the age of seven and later appeared in vaudeville, … - Barbara Ansell
Dr Barbara Mary Ansell CBE, MD, FRCP, FRCS (1923, Warwick, Warwickshire, England - September 14, 2001) was the world-renowned UK founder of paediatric rheumatology. Educated at King's High School for Girls in Warwick, Barbara Ansell qualified at Birmingham in 1946 and did her post-graduate training at Hammersmith. In 1951 she was appointed as registrar to Eric Bywaters at the Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital, Taplow, in Buckinghamshire, … - Crazy Ray
Crazy Ray (real name: Wilford Jones) was the unofficial mascot of the Dallas Cowboys. By some accounts, he was also the team's original mascot, who attended almost every home game since the team's birth. He missed only three games. He started selling pennants at games in 1962 and quickly endeared himself to the Cowboys fans with his western outfits, magic tricks, trademark whistle, and galloping along with a hobby horse. - Mary Pawlenty
Mary Anderson Pawlenty, born 1961 (age 46), currently serves as Minnesota's First Lady. She previously worked as a lawyer in private practice and a district court judge. She will soon be General Counsel at the National Arbitration Forum. She grew up in Edina, Minnesota, the youngest of five daughters. She graduated from Edina-East High School in 1979. She earned a bachelor's degree in political science, summa cum laude, from Bethel University in 1983, and a juris doctor, … - Robert Sarver
Robert Sarver (born 1961 in Tucson, Arizona) is the current majority owner of the Phoenix Suns. He bought the NBA franchise from Jerry Colangelo in the spring of 2004. After graduating from the University of Arizona with a bachelor's degree in business administration in 1982, Sarver founded the National Bank of Arizona (then the National Bank of Tucson) at age 23 in 1984. He sold it to Zions Bancorporation in 1994. - Lew Cody
Lew Cody, birth name "Louis Joseph Côté " (February 22, 1884 Waterville, Maine - May 21, 1934 Beverly Hills, California) was an American actor whose career spanned the silent film and early sound film age. He had at least 99 film credits to his name, from 1914 to 1934. He married, first, Dorothy Dalton and after a divorce from her, in 1926 married Mabel Normand. She later died on his 46th birthday, and Cody followed 4 years later from heart disease. - Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud
Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud was a French physician who was born near the town of Angoulème. He received his medical doctorate in 1823 and afterwards was a professor at the Charité in Paris. Bouillaud performed research of many medical diseases and conditions, including cancer, cholera, heart disease and encephalitis, to name a few. He is remembered for providing a correlation between rheumatism and heart disease, … - John W. Reynolds
John W. Reynolds (April 4, 1921 - January 6, 2002), a member of the Democratic Party, was an American politician and federal judge. He served as the 36th governor of Wisconsin. John Reynolds was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He was the state attorney general from 1959 to 1963 and governor of Wisconsin from 1963 to 1965. He was then appointed in October 1965 as a U.S. District Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, … - Sharad Vaidya
Sharad Vaidya (b.7 March 1936 d. 19 October 2000) was an Indian surgeon who specialized in cancer surgery. He established the Goa Cancer Society and founded the Gosalia Memorial Cancer Hospital and the National Organisation for Tobacco Eradication. He convinced the Goa Assembly to pass the Goa Prohibition of Tobacco Act 1997. This act is the culmination of 30 years of efforts to educate the people and children of Goa about the harmful effects of tobacco on health, … - William A. Nolen
William A. Nolen, M.D. (March 20, 1928 - December 20, 1986), was a retired surgeon and author who resided in Litchfield, Minnesota. He wrote a syndicated medical advice column that appeared in McCall's magazine for many years, and was the author of several books. He died on December 20, 1986, at the University of Minnesota Medical Center from heart disease. His best known book is "The Making of a Surgeon", … - Mitchell Leisen
Mitchell Leisen (b. October 6 1898, Menominee, Michigan - d. October 28 1972, Los Angeles) was an American director, art director, and costume designer. He entered the film industry in the 1920s, beginning in the art and costume departments. He garnered his sole Academy Award nomination in 1930, for Art Direction, for Cecil B. DeMille's "Dynamite". - Jean Sagal
Jean Sagal is an American actress and director. She was born on October 9, 1961 in Los Angeles. Her mother, Sara Zwilling, was one of the first female producers in Hollywood, and a former beauty queen who died of heart disease when Jean was just 11 years old. (Coincidentally enough, zwilling means "twin" in German.) Her father was director Boris Sagal, best known for directing the award-winning mini-series "Rich Man, … - Jake Beckley
Jacob Peter Beckley (August 4, 1867 - June 25, 1918), nicknamed "Eagle Eye", was a Major League Baseball player at the turn of the 20th century. He was born in Hannibal, Missouri. Beckley played minor league baseball for St. Louis in the Western Association before he was purchased (along with Harry Staley) by the Pittsburg Alleghenys for $4,500 in 1888. After playing two seasons for the Alleghenys, he jumped to the Pittsburgh Burghers, … - Lamar Lundy
Lamar J. Lundy, Jr. (April 17 1935 - February 24 2007) was an American defensive end with the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League for 13 seasons, from 1957 to 1969. Along with Deacon Jones, Merlin Olsen, and Rosey Grier, Lundy was a member of the Fearsome Foursome, often considered one of the best defensive lines in NFL history. - Lane Chandler
Lane Chandler (June 4, 1899 - September 14, 1972) was an American actor specializing in Westerns. He was born Robert Chandler Oakes in rural South Dakota, the son of a horse rancher. At an early age, the family relocated to Culbertson, Montana and later to Helena, Montana, where he graduated from high school. He briefly attended Montana Wesleyan College (which later merged and became part of Rocky Mountain College), … - Robert E. Hannegan
Robert Emmet Hannegan (June 30, 1903-October 6, 1949) was a St. Louis, Missouri politician who served as Commissioner of Internal Revenue from October of 1943 to January of 1944. He also served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1944 to 1947 and United States Postmaster General from 1945 to 1947. After his political career, in 1947, Hannegan and partner Fred Saigh purchased the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball. - Richard C. Lee
Richard Charles Lee (March 12, 1916 - February 2, 2003) (sometimes called "Mr. Urban America") was the longest serving Mayor of New Haven (1954-70) and also the youngest when he held the position in 1954 at age 37. Lee is best known for his leading role in urban redevelopment in the 1950s and 60s. - Wallace Rider Farrington
Wallace Rider Farrington (May 3 1871-October 6 1933) was the sixth Territorial Governor of Hawaii, serving from 1921 to 1929. Prior to his term, he was editor of the "Honolulu Advertiser" and "Honolulu Star-Bulletin" newspapers. Farrington was born in Orono, Penobscot County, Maine on May 3 1871. An avid traveler, he found himself in Honolulu, Hawaii and was persuaded to stay to become the editor of the "Honolulu Advertiser". - Krishna Chatterjee
Krishna Chatterjee is a famous Bengali singer. She recorded mainly for the HMV label and has done very few performances in the course of her career. She presently resides in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Chatterjee has specialised in singing the songs of Rajanikanto Sen, commonly known as "KantoKabi", as well as songs by Atulprasad Sen and Dwijendralal Roy.
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