- Bob Said
Boris "Bob" Said (May 5, 1932 in New York City - March 24, 2002 in Los Angeles) was a racing driver from the United States. Boris was the first American to win a road race in Europe after WWII - the 1953 Grand Prix of Rouen. He participated in the first Formula One United States Grand Prix at Sebring on December 12, 1959. He spun off on the first lap and scored no World Championship points.
- Danny Sullivan
Daniel John (Danny) Sullivan III (Born March 9, 1950 in Louisville, Kentucky) is a former racing driver from the United States. He is best known for winning the 1985 Indianapolis 500. Sullivan participated in 15 Formula One grands prix, all during 1983, debuting on March 13. He scored two championship points. The following year Sullivan returned to America, where he competed in the CART (Championship Auto Racing Teams) open-wheel series winning the Indianapolis 500 in 1985.
- Jim Hall
Jim Hall (born July 23,1935 in Abilene, Texas) is a former racecar driver and constructor from the United States. He participated in 10 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on October 8, 1961. He scored a total of 3 championship points. His place in motorsport history came as the owner and driving force of Chaparral Cars of Midland, Texas. During the 1960's in the United States Road Racing Championship and later in the CanAm, …
- Barbara Jones
Barbara Pearl Jones (born 26 March, 1937 in Chicago) is an American athlete, who mainly competed in the 100 metres. She competed for the United States in the 1952 Summer Olympics held in Helsinki, Finland in the 4 x 100 metres where she won the gold medal with her team mates Mae Faggs, Janet Moreau and Catherine Hardy. She missed the following Olympics but returned in the 1960 Summer Olympics held in Rome, …
- Tommy Makem
Tommy Makem (born November 4, 1932) is an internationally celebrated folk musician, artist, poet and storyteller from Ireland, most known as a member of The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem. He plays the banjo and tin whistle and sings in a baritone. He is sometimes known as "The Bard of Armagh" (taken from a traditional song of the same name) and "The Godfather of Irish Music". He was born and raised in Keady, County Armagh, Northern Ireland.
- Vanessa Rousso
Vanessa Rousso (b. February 5, 1983) is a law student at the University of Miami and a professional poker player. Born in White Plains, New York, Rousso is a dual-citizen of the United States and France. In 2001, Rousso graduated as valedictorian of her high school in Wellington, Florida. She graduated early from Duke University after two and a half years with a major in economics and a minor in political science in December 2003.
- Kuno Becker
Eduardo Kuno Becker Paz is a Mexican actor who has worked in telenovelas, the cinema of Mexico and the United States, but is best known for his portrayal of Santiago Muñez in the football movie "Goal!"
- Lynn Jennings
Lynn Jennings (born July 1, 1960 in Princeton, NJ) is a retired American athlete, who competed mainly in the 10,000 metres. She competed for the United States in the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona, Spain in the 10.000 metres where she won the bronze medal. She won the World Cross Country Championships in 1990, 1991 and 1992. Career Highlights: 1992 Olympic 10,000m bronze medalist; 3-time World Cross Country champion ('90-'92); 3-time Olympian ('88, '92, …
- Richie Ginther
Richie Ginther (born in Granada Hills, California, 5 August 1930 - died 20 September 1989) was a racecar driver from the United States. He participated in 54 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on May 29, 1960. He also participated in numerous non-Championship Formula One races.
- Maite Perroni
Maite Perroni Beorlegui (born March 9, 1983 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal) is a Mexican singer and actress. Perroni gained international popularity as a member of the successful group RBD.
- Andy Cox
Andy Cox (born 25 January 1956, in Birmingham) is a British guitarist, who along with Dave Wakeling, founded The Beat (known in The United States as "The English Beat") in 1979. In 1985 he joined fellow Beat bassist David Steele, and singer Roland Gift, in Fine Young Cannibals. By 2002 Cox formed Cribabi with Japanese singer Yukari Fujiu, and released an album called "Volume" on his own "Fidela" record label.
- Max Hirsch
Max Hirsch economist, active in Australia. Hirsch was born at Cologne, Prussia (now part of Germany). (The biography prefixed to his memorial volume "The Problem of Wealth", states that he was born in September 1853.) His father was a writer on economic subjects, and a member of the Reichstag who came in conflict with the German authorities on account of his democratic principles.
- Marilyn White
Marilyn White (born 17 October, 1944) is an American athlete who competed mainly in the 100 metres. She competed for the United States in the 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan in the 4 x 100 metres where she won the silver medal with her team mates Willye White, Wyomia Tyus and Edith McGuire.
- Chuck Daigh
Chuck Daigh (born in Long Beach, California, November 29, 1923) is a former racing driver from the United States. He broke into Grand Prix racing through Lance Reventlow's Scarab team, through the virtue of being one of the resident engineers. He participated in 6 World Championship Formula One races, debuting on May 29, 1960 and scoring no championship points. He also participated in one non-Championship Formula One race.
- Kim Turner
Kim Turner is an American athlete who competed mainly in the 100 meter Hurdles. She competed for the United States in the 1984 Special Olympics held in Los Angeles, USA in the 100 meter hurdles where she won the bronze medal jointly with Michèle Chardonnet of France.
- Galo Plaza
Galo Plaza Lasso was president of Ecuador from September 1, 1948 to August 31, 1952, and secretary general of the Organization of American States (O.A.S.) from 1968 to 1975. He was the ambassador from Ecuador to the United States from 1944 to 1946 and signed the charter of the United Nations (the UN) in 1945. Plaza was born in New York City in 1906 at the Marlton House during the exile of his father, the general and ex-president Leonidas Plaza Gutiérrez.
- T. V. Smith
T.V. Smith (born Tim Smith, 5 April 1956, in Bideford, Devon, England) is a British punk rock singer songwriter, who was part of the band The Adverts in the late 1970s. Since then, he has played with other bands, as well as pursuing solo work. He rose to prominence as the singer, songwriter and guitarist of the punk band The Adverts, who are best known for their classic 1977 single "Gary Gilmore's Eyes". When The Adverts split up in November 1979, Smith formed a new band, …
- William McKendree
William McKendree (July 6, 1757-March 5, 1835) was the fourth Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the first Methodist bishop born in the United States. He was elected in 1808.
- Adam Greenberg
Adam Greenberg is a cinematographer noted for his work in Israel and The United States, including numerous films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography in 1991, for his work on "Terminator 2: Judgment Day".
- Evelyn Lau
Evelyn Lau (born 2 July 1971) is a Canadian poet and novelist. Lau was born in Vancouver, British Columbia to Chinese-Canadian parents, who intended for her to eventually become a doctor. Her parents' ambitions for her were wholly irreconcilable with her own and her family and school lives were generally unhappy. In 1985, at age 14, Lau left home and spent the next several years living itinerantly in Vancouver as a homeless person, mainly sleeping in shelters, …
- Masten Gregory
Masten Gregory was a Formula One/sports car driver from the United States. He participated in 42 grands prix, debuting on May 19, 1957. He achieved 3 podiums, and scored a total of 24 championship points. Known as the "Kansas City Flash", Masten Gregory was born in Kansas City, Missouri as the youngest of three children (brother Riddelle L. Gregory Jr, sister Nancy James) and heir to an insurance company fortune.
- George Constantine
George Constantine (born February 22, 1918 in Southbridge, Massachusetts; died January 7, 1968 in Southbridge) was a racing driver from the United States. He participated in one Formula One Grand Prix, debuting on December 12, 1959. He scored 0 championship points.
- Adrian Baker
Adrian Baker is an English singer, songwriter, and music producer. Originally from London, England, Baker made his debut as a singer on magnet/Epic Records in the United Kingdom. In 1975, he released his first solo album, "Into a Dream" (MAG 5009). From that album, he had several hits on Britain's Music Week charts and performed on the BBC’s “Top of the Pops” TV program several times.
- A J Hackett
A J Hackett (born 1958) is a New Zealand entrepreneur who popularised the extreme sport of bungee jumping.
- Herbert Mackay-Fraser
Herbert MacKay-Fraser (June 23, 1927 - July 14, 1957) was a racing driver from the United States, born in Pernambuco, Brazil. He participated in one Formula One World Championship grand prix, the 1957 French Grand Prix, on July 7, 1957. He retired from the race and scored no championship points. A week later he was killed in the Coupe de Vitesse at Reims-Gueux, when he crashed his Lotus.
- Darko Tresnjak
Darko Tresnjak is a prominent American theatre director. He has received the Alan Schneider Award for Directing Excellence, a T.C.G. National Theater Artist Residency Award, a Boris Sagal Directing Fellowship, an NEA New Forms Grant, two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowships, and a San Diego Critics Circle Award. Tresnjak was born in the city of Zemun, Yugoslavia (now Serbia).
- Rob Schroeder
Robert Schroeder (born May 11, 1926) is a former racing driver from the United States. He participated in 1 Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, the 1962 United States Grand Prix, on October 7, 1962. He finished tenth, 7 laps behind the winner and scored no championship points.
- Wen Yiduo
Wen Yiduo, born Wen Jiahua (聞家驊), was a Chinese poet and scholar. Wen was from Xishui in the Hubei province. After receiving a traditional education he went on to continue studying at the Tsinghua University. In 1922 he traveled to America to study fine arts and literature in the Art Institute of Chicago. It was during this time that his first collection of poetry, "Hongzhu" 紅燭 ("Red Candle"), was published.
- Luis de Onís
Luis de Onís Born in La Mancha, Spain was the Spanish foreign minister to the United States from 1809 to 1819. He is remembered as the man who negotiated the Adams-Onís Treaty with United States Secretary of State John Quincy Adams in 1819.
- James E. Buttersworth
James E. Buttersworth was an English painter who specialized in maritime art, and is considered among the foremost American ship portraitists of the nineteenth century. His paintings are particularly known for their meticulous detail, dramatic settings, and grace in movement. Buttersworth was born in London, England in 1817, to a family of martime artists, and studied painting with his father, Thomas Buttersworth Jr., who was also noted for the genre.
- Kathy Hammond
Kathy Hammond (born November 2, 1951) is an American athlete who competed mainly in the 400 meters. She competed for the United States in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany in the 400 meters where she won the bronze medal. She then competed in the 4 x 400 meters where she won the silver medal with her teammates Mable Fergerson, Madeline Manning and Cheryl Toussaint.
- Pete Lovely
Gerard Carlton "Pete" Lovely (born April 11, 1926 in Livingston, Montana) is a former racecar driver driver from the United States. He participated in 11 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on May 10, 1959. He scored no championship points.
- Fred Wacker
Fred Wacker (July 10, 1918 - June 16, 1998) was a racing driver from the United States. He participated in 5 Formula One World Championship races, debuting on June 21, 1953. He scored no championship points. He also participated in several non-Championship Formula One races.
- Audrey Patterson
Audrey ("Mickey") Patterson (born September 27 1926 - died August 23 1996 in National City, California), later Audrey P. Tyler, was an American athlete who competed mainly on the sprints. She competed for the United States in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London in the 200 meters where she won the bronze medal behind Fanny Blankers-Koen and Audrey Williamson.
- Gonzalo Quesada
Gonzalo Quesada was born May 2, 1974 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He won 36 caps playing at Fly-half for the Argentinian rugby union side between 1996 and 2003. He made his test debut at the age of 22 against the United States the 14 September, 1996. He won his final cap the 26 October 2003 during the 2003 Rugby World Cup against Ireland. Argentina lost the match but Quesada scored 12 of Argentinas 15 points. He was the top points scorer at the 1999 Rugby World Cup in Wales, …
- Fred Gamble
Fred Gamble (born March 17, 1932) is a former racecar driver from the United States. He participated in 1 Formula One Grand Prix, debuting on September 4, 1960. He scored 0 championship points.
- Ana Obregón
Ana Obregón is a Spanish actress. She obtained a Biological Science Bachelor degree in Zoology in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and she can speak fluently several languages. Obregón has made films in several countries including Spain, France, The United States and Italy but she is best known for her career as a television actress most notably for her performances in the Spanish television series "A las once en casa" and "Ana y los siete".
- Frank Dobias
Frank Dobias (1902-?) was an illustrator of children's books. Among many other works, his illustrations for the Japanese version of "Little Black Sambo" made the book a bestseller in Japan, selling well over a million copies between 1953-1988. He was born in Austria and moved to the United States around 1920s, where he started his professional career as illustrator mostly for Macmillan Publishers books.
- Alisa Chan
Alisa Marie Farrington better know as Alisa Chan is a model born in 1982 in the United States. She has modeled in magazines and on film, but is primarily known for being a cosplay girl. She entered cosplay in 1996 with her first costume: Sailor Moon. Since then she has cosplayed various anime, manga and video-game characters.
- Gus Hutchison
Gus Hutchison (born 26th April 1937 in Atlanta, Georgia) was a racecar driver from the United States. He participated in 1 Formula One Grand Prix, debuting on October 4, 1970. He scored no championship points.