- Kevin O'Neill
Kevin O'Neill (born January 24 1957) served as a basketball coach in both the NCAA and the NBA. After tenures at North Country Community College (Saranac Lake, New York), Marycrest College (Davenport, Iowa), Marquette, Tennessee and Northwestern he became an assistant coach under Jeff Van Gundy with the New York Knicks. In 2001, he joined the Detroit Pistons under head coach Rick Carlisle.
- Nico Muhly
Nico Muhly is a composer born in Vermont in 1981 and currently living in Chinatown in New York City. A graduate of Columbia University and The Juilliard School with undergraduate degrees in English and Music Composition, Muhly studied under John Corigliano and Christopher Rouse. He has also worked alongside Björk in collaboration in the DVD single Oceania in 2004 and Philip Glass as an editor, conductor, and keyboardist.
- Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud (April 26, 1914 - March 18, 1986) was an American writer.
- Hrithik Roshan
Hrithik Roshan (born Hrithik Roshanlal Nagrath on January 10, 1974), is a prominent Bollywood actor and five time Filmfare Award winner.
- Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray was an Indian filmmaker regarded as one of the greatest film directors of the twentieth century. Born in the city of Kolkata (then Calcutta) into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and letters, Ray studied at Presidency College and at the Visva-Bharati University, at the poet Rabindranath Tagore's Santiniketan.
- Victoria Rowell
Victoria Rowell (born May 10, 1959) is an award-winning American dancer and actress. She is known for two high profile television roles: the role of "Drucilla Winters" on the daytime drama "The Young & The Restless", and her primetime role as Dick Van Dyke's medical examiner, assistant and pathologist, "Dr. Amanda Bentley" on "Diagnosis: Murder".
- Jennifer Martin
Jennifer Martin is an American voice actress who provides the voice of Ms. Sara Bellum, who was the Mayor of Townsville's assistant, in the Cartoon Network animated television series "The PowerPuff Girls". She also provides the voice of Euryale, the sister of Medusa and one of the boss characters in the video game "God of War II".
- Robert Capa
Robert Capa (Budapest, October 22 1913 - May 25, 1954) was a famous war photographer during the 20th century. He covered five different wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War. Capa documented the course of World War II in London, North Africa, Italy, the Battle of Normandy on Omaha Beach and the liberation of Paris.
- Stanley Donen
Stanley Donen (born April 13, 1924) is an American film director and choreographer hailed by David Quinlan as "the King of the Hollywood musicals". His most famous work is "Singin' in the Rain", which he co-directed with Gene Kelly.
- Lindy Ruff
Lindy Cameron Ruff (Born: February 17, 1960 in Warburg, Alberta, Canada) is head coach of the Buffalo Sabres and former left winger in the National Hockey League.
- Fred Zinnemann
Fred Zinnemann (April 29, 1907-March 14, 1997) was an Austrian-American film director. He won four Academy Awards and directed classic movies like "From Here to Eternity", "High Noon" and "A Man for All Seasons".
- William Mapother
William Reibert Mapother, Jr. (born April 17, 1965) is an American actor and former teacher, perhaps best known for his role as Ethan Rom on the television series "Lost".
- Laura Ziskin
Laura Ziskin (b. 3 March 1950) is an American film producer. She is most famous for producing the Spider-Man film series, along with fellow producer Avi Arad. She also produced the 74th and 79th Academy Awards. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California (USC). Ziskin is currently married to screenwriter Alvin Sargent. Before rising to fame, she used to be the assistant of producer Jon Peters.
- Ramin Djawadi
Ramin Djawadi (born in Duisburg, Germany, 1974) is a German composer of orchestral music for film and television. His father was an immigrant from Iran. Djawadi has been numerously credited as a composer for additional music, orchestrator and as an assistant composer to Hans Zimmer. His work as a music composer for films include "Blade: Trinity" (with RZA), "Ask the Dust" and "Open Season".
- Jeff Horton
Jeff Horton, born (date?) in Arlington, Texas, is currently an assistant coach (Special Assistant/Offense) for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He has also been active as an assistant coach at the collegiate level (Minnesota, Nevada, UNLV, Wisconsin) and as a collegiate head coach (Nevada, UNLV). He was a 1981 graduate of the University of Nevada-Reno.
- Jean Negulesco
Jean Negulesco (born Jean Negulescu; February 26, 1900-July 18, 1993) was a Romanian-born American film director and screenwriter. Born in Craiova, he attended Carol I High School. In 1915, he moved to Vienna, and, in 1919, to Bucharest, where he worked as a painter, before becoming a stage decorator in Paris. In 1927 he came to New York City for an exhibition of his paintings, and subsequently settled there.
- Kevin Clash
Kevin Clash (born September 17, 1960) is an accomplished puppeteer whose characters include Elmo, Clifford, Splinter, and Hoots the Owl. He currently serves as "Sesame Street" Muppet Captain and co-executive producer. In the fall of 2006, Kevin Clash released an autobiography titled "My Life as a Furry Red Monster".
- Felicia Culotta
Felicia Culotta spent ten years as personal assistant to Britney Spears. During that time she authored a book about Spears entitled, "Britney: Every Step of the Way: A Friend's Personal Scrapbook", published in 2000. In addition, Culotta has appeared in numerous television programs regarding Spears, including five appearances on Britney & Kevin: Chaotic. Felicia quit as Spears assistant in February, 2007.
- Nobuhiro Watsuki
is a Japanese mangaka, best known for his samurai-themed series "Rurouni Kenshin". He once worked as an assistant for his favorite author Takeshi Obata, and is influenced by Marvel comics such as the X-Men, Spider-Man, Hulk, and Spawn when making his characters.
- Michael Barnathan
Michael Barnathan is a producer that has produced films such as "Rent", "Bicentennial Man" and "Cheaper By The Dozen". Michael is a graduate of New York University (class of 1980) and Great Neck South High School (class of 1976). He grew up in New Hyde Park, New York (on Long Island), the middle child of Phyllis & Morris Barnathan. He has an older brother, Elliot, a doctor, and a younger sister, Julie Ann.
- Jonathan Loughran
Jonathan Loughran is an American actor who is in most Happy Madison films with his friend Adam Sandler. He met Sandler through Allen Covert, another good friend of Sandler, when he and Covert were working as doormen at a comedy club. He is Sandler's personal assistant on most of his movies. Sandler usually gives him a small role in many of his movies. Loughran went to Archbishop Ryan High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He the cousin of Beth Brown of Hitchen's Farms.
- David Milgaard
David Milgaard (born July 7th,1954 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian who was wrongfully convicted for the murder and rape of nursing assistant Gail Miller. His case received international attention and today is a staple of high school and university legal studies. In 1969, Milgaard along with two friends, Ron Wilson and Nichol John, decided on a whim to take a road trip across the Canadian prairies, a trip which involved some drug use and petty theft.
- Ravi K. Chandran
Ravi K. Chandran (born Maduranthakam,Tamil nadu, India) is a cinematographer, educated at the A. M. Jain College in India. His work includes frequent collaborations with the film directors Rajiv Menon, Mani Ratnam and [(S. Shankar)]. Chandran started his career working in Malayalam films, as an assistant to his brother, the cameraman Ramachandra Babu. He has since worked as a cinematographer on Tamil films as well as Hindi films.
- Zack Whedon
Zack Whedon is an American television writer. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 2002 with a film degree. He was a co-nominee for the Writers Guild of America Award (TV) for Dramatic Series for "Deadwood". In addition to writing for them, Zack Whedon appeared as an actor on "Deadwood" and "John from Cincinnati". He was a production assistant for 35 episodes of "Deadwood" and was also an assistant on "Angel".
- Lisa Jane Persky
Lisa Jane Persky (born May 5 1960 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American film actress who grew up in New York's Greenwich Village. She debuted as Robert Duvall's daughter in "The Great Santini" and went on to act in such movies as "American Pop", "When Harry Met Sally...", "Coneheads", and "Peggy Sue Got Married".
- Jim Danforth
Jim Danforth is a master stop-motion animator, well-known for his model-animation work and matte painting skill. Danforth is known for his superb work on "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth" (1971), a sequel of sorts to Ray Harryhausen's "One Million Years B.C." (1967). Danforth later went on to work with Harryhausen on the film "Clash of the Titans" (1981), in which he was mainly responsible for the animation of the winged-horse Pegasus.
- Jonathan Nossiter
Award winning film director Jonathan Nossiter, son of Washington Post and New York Times foreign correspondent Bernard Nossiter, was born in the United States in 1961. He was raised in France, England, Italy, Greece and India. He studied painting at the Beaux Arts in Paris and at the San Francisco Art Institute, as well as Ancient Greek at Dartmouth College (Phi Beta Kappa, …
- Zinka Milanov
Zinka Milanov "née" Zinka Kunc was a Croatian-born operatic "spinto soprano". Born in Zagreb, she studied with the Wagnerian soprano Milka Ternina and her assistant Marija Kostrenčić. She also studied in Milan with Campi and in Vienna with Stickgolt. On October 29, 1927, she made her operatic debut as Leonora in Giuseppe Verdi's "Il Trovatore" in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her debut in her native Croatia, at the National Theatre in Zagreb, …
- Kouta Hirano
is a Japanese mangaka born in Adachi-ku, Tokyo, Japan, most famous for his manga "Hellsing". Starting his career first as a mangaka's assistant (self-described as "horrible" and "lazy" in said assistant position), and later an H manga artist, he went on to enjoy somewhat limited success with other relatively unknown manga titles such as "Angel Dust", "Coyote", "Gun Mania" and "Hi-Tension".
- Thomas Hinckley
Thomas Hinckley (1618 - April 25, 1706) was the governor of the Plymouth Colony and held several other governmental positions during his lifetime, including that of a representative, a deputy, magistrate, and assistant, among others. A monument, created in 1829 at the Lothrop Hill cemetery in Barnstable, Massachusetts, attests to his "piety, usefulness and agency in the public transactions of his time." Hinckley was born in England and migrated to Scituate with his parents, …
- Neil Canton
Neil Canton is an American film producer from New York City. The films he has produced have affected their audiences widely. The film "Caddyshack II" was nominated for the unsolicited Razzie Award for Worst Picture. By contrast, "Back to the Future" (1985) was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Film..
- Damon Intrabartolo
Damon Intrabartolo is an American composer, orchestrator and conductor. He attended the University of Southern California and departed before graduation to work with John Ottman on "The Usual Suspects".
- Valentina Cervi
Valentina Cervi is an Italian actress. She is the daughter of director Tonino Cervi and granddaughter of the famous Italian actor Gino Cervi. Cervi started her acting career at age ten (in Carlo Cotti's 1986 "Portami la luna"). She also played an English-language role in Jane Campion's 1996 "Portrait of a Lady". One of her most acclaimed roles was the 1997 film "Artemisia", directed by Agnès Merlet and starring Valentina Cervi.
- Makoto Raiku
Makoto Raiku is a mangaka whose works have appeared prominently in Shogakukan's publication Shonen Sunday. Starting off an assistant for Kazuhiro Fujita on his manga "Ushio & Tora", he started creating several one-shots for the shonen manga anthology such as "Bird Man" (about a young pilot), "Hero Ba-Ban" (about a cheerful, but weak superhero) and "Genmai Blade" (about a teenage medicinal exorcist, …
- Miho Obana
"'"' born April 26, 1970 is a shōjo mangaka born in Tokyo, Japan. She began her manga career as an assistant to Momoko Sakura, creator of "Chibi Maruko-chan". She debuted in 1990 with the yomikiri (one-shot manga) "Mado no Mukō", which was published in the autumn 1990 issue of Ribon Bikkuri. Soon, stories from her started appearing in Ribon Original and in the regular Ribon magazine too.
- Coyote Shivers
Francis Coyote Shivers, born September 24, 1965, is a musician and actor. He was born in Toronto, Canada.
- Jacques Witta
Jacques Witta is a French film editor who began working in motion picture editing in the late 1950s. During his career, he has edited more than 60 feature films and has worked with noted French film directors such as Claude Berri and Jean Becker but is best known for his collaboration with Krzysztof Kieślowski which began with "The Double Life of Véronique", and continued on "Three Colors: Blue" and "Three Colors: Red".
- Tatsuya Egawa
is a Japanese manga artist who was born in the Aichi Prefecture of Nagoya, Japan. He has a degree in applied mathematics and taught college mathematics for five months before switching to manga as a career. He studied under the prolific manga artist Motomiya Hiroshi for four months. Tatsuya's break came when his story "Don't Give Up" won Comic Morning's open contest. He has also directed live-action pornographic films.
- Marcel Ophüls
Marcel Ophüls is a documentary film maker. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany, the son of Max Ophüls. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1950.
- Dennis Gendron
Dennis "Red" Gendron is a former ice hockey head coach for the Albany River Rats. He was assistant coach for the Albany River Rats and the affiliate team New Jersey Devils. He was replaced during the 2003-04 AHL season by Robbie Ftorek. He won 2 Stanley Cups in 1995 and 2000 with the New Jersey Devils.