- David Hasselhoff
David Michael Hasselhoff (born July 17, 1952 in Baltimore, Maryland), nicknamed "The Hoff", is an American actor who is best known for his lead roles on "Knight Rider" and "Baywatch". He also crossed over to a successful music career, primarily in Austria, Switzerland, and most notably Germany. - Jim Morrison
James Douglas Morrison was an American singer, songwriter, writer, film director, and poet. He was best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the popular American rock band The Doors, and is considered to be one of the most charismatic, unique, and influential frontmen in the history of rock music. He was also an author of several poetry books, a documentary, short film, and three early music videos ("The Unknown Soldier", "Moonlight Drive", and "People are Strange"). - Jeffrey Dahmer
Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer (May 21, 1960 - November 28, 1994) was an American serial killer. Dahmer murdered at least 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991, with the majority of the murders occurring between 1989 and 1991. His murders were particularly gruesome, involving acts of forced sodomy, necrophilia, dismemberment, and cannibalism. - La Shawn Barber
La Shawn Barber is a black conservative columnist and blogger who lives in the Washington D.C. area. Barber is a native of South Carolina. An alcoholic in her younger years, Barber took a vow of sobriety and abstinence shortly before her thirtieth birthday. She later moved to Washington, D.C. to serve as a legislative correspondent for a Democratic senator. She eventually converted to Christianity, became a political conservative, and pursued writing. - John Bradshaw
John Elliot Bradshaw (born June 29, 1933 in Houston, Texas) is an American educator, counselor, motivational speaker and author best known for his PBS television programs on topics such as addiction, recovery, codependency and spirituality. Bradshaw is active in the self-help movement, and is credited with popularizing such ideas as the "wounded inner child" and the dysfunctional family. His books are mainly works of popular psychology. - John Davis
John Davis, born in Tennessee, was a founding member of the rock band, Superdrag. Davis' primary roles in the band were that of songwriter, singer and lead guitarist. By the time Superdrag was beginning work on their fourth full-length record, Davis was an alcoholic. One night as Davis was driving, he felt the presence of God. Davis gave up alcohol at that moment, and turned his life to Christianity. - Jim Ramstad
James M. "Jim" Ramstad (born May 6, 1946) is a United States politician from the state of Minnesota. Ramstad has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1991, representing Minnesota's 3rd congressional district, one of eight congressional districts in Minnesota. The district, the state's wealthiest, includes most of the western portion of the Twin Cities area, including cities such as Maple Grove, Bloomington, Plymouth, Minnetonka, … - Marty Mann
Marty Mann (1904-1980) was the first woman in Alcoholics Anonymous & author of the chapter "Women Suffer Too"in the 2nd and 3rd Editions of the Big Book of AA. In part, because of her life work, the consensus developed that alcoholism was less of a moral issue and more of a health issue (The disease model). She was from an upper middle class family in Chicago. She married and became an alcoholic. In 1939 she saw a psychiatrist, Dr. Harry Tiebout, … - Cary Tennis
Cary Tennis is an author and columnist best known for his work as an advice columnist or agony aunt in his column "Since You Asked", which appears on the website Salon.com. "Since You Asked" began in 2001, and was based on a previous column by Garrison Keillor entitled Mr. Blue which appeared in Salon's "Books" section. - Gig Young
Gig Young (November 4, 1913 - October 19, 1978) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. - Taylor Hayes
Taylor Hayes (born Tara Ellyn Smith on January 14, 1975) is an American pornographic actress. She took her pseudonym from Taylor Hayes, the fictional character played by Hunter Tylo on the "The Bold and the Beautiful", an American soap opera of which a teenaged Hayes was an enthusiastic devotee. Hayes was raised by a single alcoholic parent in suburban Ohio. During her formative years and high school years in suburban Dallas, … - Jim Davidson
Jim Davidson, OBE (born Cameron James Davidson on 13 December 1953 in Kidbrooke, London) is an English actor, comedian, TV presenter. - Frank Skinner
Frank Skinner, (born Christopher Graham Collins on 28 January, 1957) is a British writer and comedian, best known for the hit football song "Three Lions" with David Baddiel and The Lightning Seeds as well as presenting, alongside Baddiel, the hit comedy show Fantasy Football League. - A. A. Gill
Adrian Anthony Gill (born June 28, 1954) is a British newspaper columnist and writer. He is also restaurant reviewer in the "Style" section of the London "Sunday Times", and a television critic in the "Culture" section in the same paper. His essays are known for their humor and satirical content. The son of television producer Michael Gill, he was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, … - Peter Walker
Peter Walker (October 7, 1912 - March 1, 1984) was a British racing driver. He was born in Leeds, Yorkshire and died in Newtown, Worcestershire. Based in Herefordshire, Walker enjoyed success in both circuit racing and hillclimbing with an ERA, which he also entered in the 1950 British Grand Prix, sharing the drive with Tony Rolt. - Dee Wallace-Stone
Dee Wallace-Stone (born Deanna Bowers on December 14, 1948, in Kansas City, Kansas) is an U.S. motion picture and television actress. She is remembered for her roles in several popular films. These include the starring role as Elliot's divorced mother in the Steven Spielberg film "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (1982), her widest seen role. - Clarissa Dickson-Wright
Clarissa Dickson-Wright (born Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmerelda Dickson-Wright on June 28 1947) is an English celebrity chef best known from her appearances with Jennifer Paterson in the BBC series "Two Fat Ladies". She was born in St John's Wood, London, the only child of a Protestant father Sir Arthur Dickson-Wright KCVO who was surgeon to the British Royal Family after World War II, … - Mark Elliot
Mark Elliot (born ca. 1953 is the professional name of Nils Johanson, a late night talk radio host on radio station CFRB 1010 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and an addictions counselor in private practice. From 2003 to February 2007 he hosted the general interest talk show "The Nightside", as of 2005 the highest-rated late night radio show in Canada. Since February 2007 he hosts "People Helping People", … - Michael Gira
Michael Gira (pronounced jeer-AH) (born 1954) is a musician, author, and artist. He was the main force behind the now dissolved New York City musical group Swans and currently fronts The Angels of Light. He is also the founder of Young God Records. Gira lived with his parents in a relatively affluent suburb of Los Angeles, California though they divorced when he was a young teenager. After staying with his alcoholic mother for much of his youth, … - John Norton
John Norton January 25, 1858 - April 9, 1916), was an English-born Australian journalist, editor and member of the New South Wales Parliament. He was a writer and newspaper editor best known for his Sydney newspaper "the Truth". He was also an incorrigible alcoholic, said by one of his chauffeurs to have consumed in one of his binges about a dozen bottles of brandy and "Chartreuse wine" every two days - Kenneth Bianchi
Kenneth Alessio Bianchi (born May 22, 1951 in Rochester, New York, USA) is, along with cousin Angelo Buono, Jr., one of the Hillside Stranglers. He is serving a prison term in Washington. - Rita Johnson
Movie actress Rita Johnson (August 13, 1913 - October 31, 1965) was an American actress. She was born in Worcester, Massachusetts and attended the New England Conservatory of Music. She began acting on Broadway in 1935 and started her film career two years after that. She had a memorable role in the RKO black-and-white film noir "They Won't Believe Me" (1947) playing the doomed wife of cheater Robert Young. She also was memorable in "Here Comes Mr. - Oxana Malaya
Oxana Malaya was found as an 8-year-old feral child in Ukraine in 1991, having lived most of her life in the company of dogs. She picked up a number of dog-like habits and found it difficult to master language. She has lived in the Baraboy Clinic in Odessa for the disabled since her discovery. Oxana's alcoholic parents were unable to care for her. They lived in an impoverished area where there were wild dogs roaming the streets. - Mary Walsh
Mary Cynthia Walsh, CM, LL.D (h.c.) (born May 13, 1952, St. John's, Newfoundland) is an actress and comedian. - Jeff The Drunk
Jeff Curro, better known as Jeff the Drunk to fans of the Howard Stern Show, was born on May 2, 1967. He is an alcoholic who currently lives in a trailer in Berne, New York and works at Nichols' Market, a supermarket, in Voorheesville, New York. Jeff has seven biological brothers, ten step-brothers, two biological sisters and two half-sisters. He is a member of Howard Stern's Wack Pack. - Robert Bauman
Robert Bauman (April 4, 1937-) is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the 1st Congressional district of Maryland. He was elected to the House as a Republican in an August 1973 special election, replacing William O. Mills, who had died the previous May. He was re-elected in 1974, 1976, and 1978 but was defeated in 1980. In 1982, he was nominated by his party to run for the seat he had lost, but he withdrew from the race before election day. - Aldo Giuffrè
Aldo Giuffrè is an Italian film actor and comedian who has appeared in over 90 films between 1948 and 2001. He is known for his roles in "The Four Days of Naples", and as the alcoholic union captain in the Sergio Leone film "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" in 1966. - Martin Cahill
Martin Cahill (May 23 1949 - August 18 1994) was a prominent Irish criminal from Dublin. Cahill generated a certain notoriety in the media, which referred to him by the sobriquet The General. The name was also used by the media in order to discuss Cahill's activities while avoiding legal problems with libel. During his lifetime, Cahill took particular care to hide his face from the media and was rarely photographed. - Peter Boyles
Peter Boyles is a popular and controversial radio host in Denver, Colorado. Boyles can be heard on his morning drive-time talk show on 630 KHOW in Denver and on khow.com. His strong political opinions do not fit the usual radio talk show liberal or conservative stereotypes. For instance, although he advocates meaningful enforcement of U.S. immigration laws, he is also an ardent supporter of labor unions. - Justin Edwards
Justin Edwards (b. 1972 in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire) is an English actor, comedian and singer. Justin is also a member of sketch trio The Consultants alongside Neil Edmond and James Rawlings. In 2002 they won the Perrier award Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh fringe festival. The Consultants went on to record four series for BBC Radio 4 between 2002 and 2005. In the guise of alcoholic children's entertainer Jeremy Lion, … - Larry Fortensky
Lawrence Lee ('Larry') Fortensky (born 17 January 1952, Stanton, California, USA) is a former teamster who became famous as Elizabeth Taylor's seventh husband. A recovering alcoholic, he and Taylor met at the Betty Ford Clinic. They were married at Michael Jackson's ranch, "Neverland", in October 1991, but were divorced almost exactly five years later. Taylor is twenty years his senior. He was subsequently jailed for assaulting his girlfriend. - Sante Kimes
Sante Kimes (born July 24 1934) is an American woman infamous for the murder of Irene Silverman, an 82-year-old New York City socialite. She also was convicted of killing David Kazdin in early 1998, a business associate of her husband, in California. Born Sante Louise Singhrs in Oklahoma City, possibly to a Dutch mother and East Indian father (she reinvented herself so often even her children were unsure of the facts), … - Flip Benham
Philip "Flip" Benham (born April 16, 1948) is a Methodist minister and the national leader of Dallas-based Operation Save America. - Johnny Dark
Johnny Dark is an American comic with many past appearances on television, nowadays appearing on CBS’ "Late Show with David Letterman", doing a comic spot as the oldest page at CBS (serving an extraordinary 39 years when a normal page's career lasts not much longer than a year or so). He presents an abrasive, more than sarcastic character who pities himself for the career he has led at CBS; in his own words, … - Kevin Lloyd
Kevin Reardon Lloyd (28 March 1949 - 2 May 1998) was a British actor, born in Derby, and trained at East 15 Acting School, London. Best known for his part of DC Alfred "Tosh" Lines in Thames Television's "The Bill". Prior to this he had already played the high profile role of nightclub owner, Don Watkins, in the soap opera "Coronation Street". He also made appearances in a number of other TV shows, including "Boon", "Minder", "Z-Cars", … - David Meece
David Meece (born May 26, 1952) is a contemporary Christian musician who enjoyed moderate success in the mid 80s throughout the 90s. Growing up in Humble, Texas, with an abusive, alcoholic father, David found solace in playing the piano. By his mid teens he was touring in Europe and the USA. He went on to study music at the Peabody Conservatory of Music where he met his wife, Debbie, who plays the viola. - Peggie Castle
Peggie Castle (born Peggy Blair on December 22, 1927 in Appalachia, Virginia, died August 11, 1973 in Hollywood, California) was a film actress who specialized in playing the "other woman" in B-movies. She was also billed under the names Peggy Castle and Peggie Call. Castle was discovered by a talent scout while eating in a restaurant in Beverly Hills. She appeared in such films as "Payment On Demand", … - Christer Pettersson
Christer Pettersson (April 23, 1947 - September 29, 2004) was a suspect in the 1986 assassination of Olof Palme, the Prime Minister of Sweden. In 1988, he was arrested, tried and convicted of the murder but was freed on appeal the following year. - Edd Byrnes
Edd Byrnes (born Edward Byrne Breitenberger, 30 July 1933, New York, New York, United States) is an American actor of German and Irish extraction. His alcoholic father died when he was aged thirteen. He changed his surname to Byrnes, which was his maternal grandfather's surname and appeared in the film, "Marjorie Morningstar" as Edward Byrnes. He was usually billed under the name Edd Byrnes. - Mary Louise Smith
Mary Louise Smith (later Mary Louise Smith Ware) (b. 1937) is a civil rights protester. She is famous as one of the pre-Rosa Parks women who refused to give up their seat in the "whites only" section of Montgomery, Alabama city buses. She was just 18 years old when she was arrested.
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