William Louis Veeck, Jr., also known as "Sport Shirt Bill", was a native of Chicago, Illinois, and franchise owner and promoter in Major League Baseball. He was best known for his flamboyant publicity stunts, and the innovations he brought to the league during his ownership of the Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns, and Chicago White Sox. Veeck was the last owner to purchase a baseball franchise without an independent fortune, …

Amy Polumbo is Miss New Jersey 2007. Palumbo is from Howell, NJ and attends Wagner College in Staten Island, New York. She left college for sometime to star in The Voyage of The Little Mermaid in MGM Studios at Walt Disney World as Ariel.

Harry Reichenbach (1882-1931) was a US press agent and publicist who dreamed up sensational publicity stunts to promote films. He worked both for actors, as an agent, and for the studios as a promoter. Among his first jobs was to promote a woman called "Sober Sue" who never smiled. He got her a contract at the Victoria Theater on Broadway and made them offer $1000 to any New York comedian who could make her laugh. Actually, the woman had Mobius syndrome - ie.

David Merrick (November 27 1911 - April 25, 2000) was a prolific Tony Award-winning American theatrical producer. Born David Lee Margulois to Jewish parents in St. Louis, Missouri, Merrick graduated from Washington University, then studied law at the Jesuit-run Saint Louis University School of Law. In 1940 he left his legal career to become a successful theatrical producer. He often was his own competition for the Tony Award, …

Sonya Hartnett (born 23 February 1968 in Melbourne) is an Australian author. Sonya Hartnett writes fiction variously for children, young adults and adults and has won numerous prizes and awards, having been described as "the finest Australian writer of her generation". She wrote her first novel, "Trouble All the Way", at the age of 13 and had it published when she was 15. Her books have also been published in Europe and North America.

Rudolf Nebel was a spaceflight advocate active in Germany's amateur rocket group, the "Verein für Raumschiffahrt" (VfR - "Spaceflight Society") in the 1930s and in rebuilding German rocketry following World War II. Nebel was born in Weißenburg and trained as an engineer.

Fritz Adam Hermann Opel, since 1918 von Opel was the only child of Wilhelm von Opel, and a grandson of Adam Opel, founder of the Opel Company. He is remembered mostly for his spectacular demonstrations of rocket propulsion that earned him the nickname "Rocket Fritz". Von Opel was born in Rüsselsheim and educated at the technical university of Darmstadt. After graduation, he was made director of testing for Opel and also put in charge of publicity.

Graciela Yataco is a Peruvian model from Lima who in March 2005 offered to sell her virginity to the highest bidder, as a means to bring her family and sick mother out of poverty. In the strongly Catholic country of Peru this caused outcry among some commentators and public figures. In April 2005 Ms Yataco retracted her offer, having already turned down an offer of $1.5m from a Canadian man, …

Cornelius "Neil" Horan, sometimes referred to as The Grand Prix Priest or The Dancing Priest (born April 22, 1947), is a defrocked Irish Roman Catholic clergyman who is noted for disrupting sporting events by means of publicity stunts. He interfered with the running of the 2003 British Grand Prix and the 2004 Summer Olympics men's marathon in order to promote his religious belief that the end of the World is near.

Annie Jones (1865 - 1902), was a US bearded woman, born in Virginia, who toured with showman P. T. Barnum as a circus attraction. Jones apparently suffered from what is now classified as hypertrichosis. When Jones joined Barnum's exhibition as a child of only nine months, Jones' parents received a $150-a-week salary. She was billed as a new "infant Esau." By the age of five, …

Josephine Clofullia was a Swiss-born bearded lady who toured with P. T. Barnum's "American Museum". Madame Clofullia was born Josephine Boisdechene in Switzerland. She was born hairy and reputedly had a two-inch beard at the age of eight. At the age of fourteen she began to tour Europe, first accompanied by her father and an agent and then with her father alone. In Paris she met painter Fortune Clofullia and eventually married him.

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Mauro Turcatti (aka Iron Mauro) is a public relations and marketing strategist. He currently serves as Senior Associate at Burson-Marsteller (WPP Group), the global public relations and public affairs firm. He is based in Milan, Italy. Prior to this he worked for Edelman, the largest independent global PR firm, Politiké (part of Chiara Associati), a political marketing boutique, and the Milan Chamber of Commerce.