Naomi Judd (born Diana Ellen Judd on January 11, 1946 in Ashland, Kentucky) is an American country music singer and songwriter. With her daughter, Wynonna Judd, Naomi formed the highly successful singing duo known as The Judds, after ending her career as a nurse. Her second daughter, Ashley Judd, is a film and stage actress.

Jack Kevorkian, M.D. (born May 20, some sources say May 26, 1928) is a controversial American pathologist. He was born in Pontiac, Michigan to Armenian-American parents. He is most noted for publicly championing a terminal patient's right to die via physician-assisted suicide and claims to have assisted at least 130 patients to that end. He has famously stated, "dying is not a crime." It was previously thought that his activities earned him the nickname of Dr.

Don Rafael Martos Sánchez, Ilustrísimo Señor de la Orden de Cisneros, Comendador de Isabel La Católica, and known worldwide as Raphael, is one of the best known singers from Spain. Absolute pioneer of the modern music in Spanish, his importance rests in having opened the door the singers of Spanish speech towards the whole world, making them respected.

Harvey J. Alter, chief of the infectious disease section in the department of transfusion medicine at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), …

Kelly Duda is an American filmmaker from Arkansas. Duda spent 7 years making Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal. Variety magazine described Duda as "a pit bull with a bureaucratic bone" who "follows subjects fearlessly and ventures into hostile environs (and) comes away, most of the time, with the information he wants to get." Variety described Factor 8 as "hard-headed journalism" stating, …

Dr. Durhane Wong-Rieger is a Chinese-born, American-raised, Canadian physician who is best known in her role as an advocate of patients who contracted diseases such as HIV and hepatitis C from tainted blood transfusions, in particular from the Health Management Associates Scandal. Wong-Rieger served on the board of directors for Canadian Blood Services before resigning in 1999; as well, she has been the president of the Canadian Hemophilia Society, the Anemia Institute, …

Christine Lee is Emeritus Professor of Haemophilia in the University of London, and founding Editor of "Haemophilia". She trained in medicine at the University of Oxford, where she was awarded First Class Honours and was the first female scholar of the Oxford University Medical School. She was awarded a Doctorate of Science (Medicine) by the University of London in 1996. She trained in Haematology at St Mary’s and St George’s Hospitals in London, …

Annabelle Ewing (born 20 August 1960) is a Scottish politician, and former Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of Parliament for Perth. She attended the Craigholme School for Girls in Glasgow and the University of Glasgow, where she graduated with a law degree. Before becoming an MP, Annabelle was an EC lawyer in Brussels and ran a small legal practice. She lives in Perthshire, and is a member of what is perhaps Scottish politics' best-known 'clan'.

Prof. Ralf Altmeyer (born 1966) is a German virologist who leads the HKU Pasteur Institute in Hong Kong, a joint institute of the University of Hong Kong and Institut Pasteur, Paris, France. He attended "gymnasium" (German upper highschool) in Saarlouis, Germany in the Gymnasium am Stadtgarten and graduated in 1985. His research interests include respiratory diseases (SARS), Hepatitis C and HIV.

Florentin Petre is a Romanian footballer. He was born in Bucharest and debuted in Divizia A with Dinamo Bucureşti in 1994, scoring in his first match. Except for a spell in FC UTA Arad in the second half of that season, he has stayed with Dinamo since. He helped win The Double in 2000 before contracting hepatitis C, which put him on the sideline for almost two seasons. He returned to win the Romanian league in 2004 and the Cup in 2003 and 2004, …

Helen O'Connell (b. May 23, 1920 in Lima, Ohio - September 9, 1993 in San Diego, California) was a singer, actress, and dancer. Helen O'Connell joined the Jimmy Dorsey band in 1939 and achieved her best selling records in the early forties with "Green Eyes", "Amapola," and "Tangerine." In each of these Latin-influenced numbers, Bob Eberly crooned the song which Helen then reprised in an up-tempo arrangement.

Luis Ocaña was a Spanish road bicycle racer who won the "Tour de France" in 1973 and the Vuelta a España in 1970. Ocaña was born in Priego, Cuenca, Spain but his family eventually moved to Mont-de-Marsan (Landes, France) in 1957. In 1970 he finished 31st in the Tour. The following year, Ocaña rode himself in to history books with a daring and strong challenge to the dominance of Eddy Merckx. On the uphill finish of Stage 8 with 4 kilometres to go, …

Jeannine Parvati Baker (June 1, 1949 - December 1, 2005) was a midwife, herbalist, author, homebirth, freebirth and anti-circumcision activist. She was a pioneer in women's health care. Her first book on the subject, "Prenatal Yoga & Natural Childbirth", was written after studying with Baba Hari Dass. She then wrote "Hygieia: A Woman's Herbal" as her Master's thesis in psychology at San Francisco State University.

Francis J. Blee (born May 29, 1958) is an American Republican Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey General Assembly since 1995, where he represents the 2nd legislative district. Blee was appointed in 1995 to fill the unexpired term of the late Assemblyman John Gaffney. Blee has been the Republican Whip since 2002. He serves in the Assembly on the Budget Committee, the Tourism Committee and on the Legislative Services Commission.

Lucy Saroyan (January 17, 1946 - 11 April 2003) was an American actress. Saroyan was born in San Francisco, California, the daughter of the writer William Saroyan and the actress Carol Grace. Her brother is writer Aram Saroyan. Following her parents' second divorce, her mother married the actor Walter Matthau and Lucy Saroyan later worked alongside her stepfather in a number of his films. She also played small parts on Broadway, off-Broadway, and on TV, …

Randy "Biscuit" Turner was an American punk singer and artist. He was the lead singer for the seminal hardcore punk band Big Boys, formed in Austin in the 1970s. Big Boys, along with The Dicks and MDC, are credited with the development of hardcore punk in Texas, while it was simultaneously emerging in other cities as well. They were one of the earliest skate punk groups, were featured in "Thrasher" skateboarding magazine and videos, …

Julio Anacleto Gutierrez is a Mexican-American scientist. In 2000, Dr. Gutierrez began working at Mount Sinai Hospitial in New York City with Dr. Andrea Branch studying the hepatitis C virus (HCV). The main focus of their research was to help define the natural history of the novel HCV protein, the Alternate Reading Frame Protein. Additionally, he identified ascitic fluid from HCV patients as a rich source of anti-HCV antibodies, …

Niamh Cosgrave is a councillor in the Dublin North East Constituency formerly in the Fine Gael party now independent. She was first elected to Dublin City Council (then Dublin Corporation) to the Donaghmeade ward.

Alejandro Escovedo is an American musician. He is from a very musical family that has generated several professional musicians, including longtime Prince collaborator Sheila E (who is Escovedo's niece). Escovedo began performing in the first-wave punk rock group The Nuns, with Delphine Neid, Jennifer Miro, and Jeff Olener, in San Francisco, California. After Escovedo's departure, The Nuns recorded an album on Posh Boy Records, but had little commercial success.