- Sandra Day O'Connor
Born in 1930, O'Connor, grew up on an 198,000-acre cattle ranch in Arizona. By the time she was 8, she could mend fences, drive a truck and ride horses with the cowboys on the ranch. In 1952, she graduated from Stanford Law School in California. But law firms would not hire a woman lawyer, so she turned to public service. "In my lifetime, I have seen attitudes about women change dramatically," she told TFK. "Today, almost all occupations are open to women.
- Menachem Begin
"'"' (August 16, 1913 – March 9, 1992) was a Polish-Jewish head of the Zionist underground group the Irgun, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and the first Likud Prime Minister of Israel. Though revered by many Israelis, Begin’s legacy remains highly controversial and divisive. As the leader of Irgun, Begin played a central role in Jewish military resistance to the British Mandate of Palestine, but was strongly deplored and consequently sidelined by mainstream Zionist leadership.
- Michael Head
Michael Head (28 January 1900 - 24 August 1976) was a British composer, pianist, organist and singer who left some enduring works still popular today.
- Larry Klayman
Larry Klayman is the chairman of Judicial Watch and, as a sought-after speaker on the topic of ethics and the need for honest government, is a frequent guest on the Fox News Network and such programs as CNN's Crossfire and ABC's Prime Time Live.
- Tsai Chin
Tsai Chin, (born November 30,1936), also known as Irene Chow, is a Chinese-born actress living in England.
- Samuel Francis
Samuel Todd Francis was a nationally syndicated paleoconservative columnist known for his opposition to immigration, multiculturalism, and his involvement in debates concerning other controversial issues of the day. His many supporters characterized him as a conservative and a Machiavellian, while to his critics he was a reactionary and a racist. Francis was also a leading political theorist of paleoconservatism.
- Kevin Duffy
Kevin Thomas Duffy (born 1933) is an American lawyer and currently a senior judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Duffy graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Fordham College in 1954 and with an LL.B from the Fordham University School of Law in 1958. He clerked for J. Edward Lumbard a Second Circuit Court of Appeals (1955-1958).
- Brian Ferneyhough
Brian John Peter Ferneyhough (born 16 January, 1943 in Coventry) is an English composer.
- Stanley Spencer
Sir Stanley Spencer (30 June 1891 - 14 December 1959) was an English painter.
- Vernon Handley
Dr Vernon Handley, CBE (Born November 11 1930, Enfield, London) is a British conductor. He was a pupil of Sir Adrian Boult. He was born of Welsh parents, into a musical family. While in school he watched the BBC Symphony Orchestra in its studio in Maida Vale where by his own account he learned some of his conducting technique by watching Boult. Later the two corresponded in the early 1950s and met around 1958, …
- Ed Curtis
Ed Curtis (born 1980 in England) is a British theatre director. Curtis graduated from The University of Birmingham with a First Class Honours Bachelor of the Arts Degree in Drama and Theatre Arts. His directing credits include: *Calamity Jane by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster (UK Tour and West End) which was nominated for "Best Musical" at the Manchester Evening News Awards 2003 *"The Big Odyssey" (Assembly Rooms, …
- Yan Pascal Tortelier
Yan Pascal Tortelier (born April 19, 1947) is an internationally renowned French conductor and is the son of the late cellist Paul Tortelier. Born in Paris, he has worked and recorded extensively with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in Manchester - for whom he was Principal Conductor from 1992 to 2003. He also made an acclaimed recording of French music with the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber which included the cello concertos of Saint-Saens and Honegger for Universal Classics.
- Wheeler Winston Dixon
Wheeler Winston Dixon was born March 12, 1950 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and is best known as a writer of film history, theory and criticism. He is the author of numerous books on film, as well as a professor who has taught at Rutgers University, New Brunswick; The New School in New York; and The University of Amsterdam, Holland. He received his Ph.D. in English from Rutgers University in 1982.
- Ross Upshur
Ross Upshur, MA, MD, MSc, CCFP, FRCPC, is a Canadian physician and researcher. He is the Director of the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, Director of the Primary Care Research Unit and a staff physician at the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.
- Violet Archer
Violet Archer was a Canadian composer, teacher, pianist, organist, and percussionist. Born Violet Balestreri in Montreal, Quebec, her family changed their name to Archer. She travelled to New York in the summer of 1942 where she studied with Béla Bartók, "who introduced her to Hungarian folk tunes and to variation technique." In 1962, …
- James A. Rice
James A. Rice (b. November 15, 1957) is an American attorney, judge, and politician who is one of the five Associate Justices currently on the Montana Supreme Court. Rice won an unopposed retention vote in 2006; his current term will expire in 2014. Rice was born to parents in the United States Military who were stationed at Ramore Air Force Base, near Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada. Rice grew up in eastern Montana, and graduated in 1975.
- Irwin Hoffman
Irwin Hoffman, is an American conductor. He was a protege of Serge Koussevitsky. He conducted the Vancouver Symphony from 1952 to 1964, after which he became Associate Conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He was Acting Music Director of the Chicago Symphony for one year, from 1968 to 1969. He became the first music director of the Florida Orchestra (then the Florida Gulf Coast Symphony) in 1968. He is now Music Director of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Bogotá, …
- Judith Walzer Leavitt
Judith Walzer Leavitt is Rupple Bascom and Ruth Bleier Professor of History of Medicine, History of Science, and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has published multiple books and articles on women's health, including a study of Mary Mallon ("Typhoid Mary"), a history of childbirth in America, and a history of public health in Milwaukee. She is the wife of Waisman Center medical director Lewis Leavitt and the sister of political theorist Michael Walzer.
- Sandy Hawley
Desmond Sanford "Sandy" Hawley, CM, MA, LL.B (born April 16, 1949 in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada) is a Hall of Fame jockey. Sandy Hawley started his career as a 17-year-old boy, hotwalking horses at a Toronto racetrack. Two years later, he became a regular rider at racetracks in Ontario and then rode at racetracks on the East Coast of the United States. Hawley became the first jockey to ever lead the Canadian standings in a full season as an apprentice.
- Merit Janow
Merit E. Janow is the director of the International Economic Policy (IEP) concentration at SIPA (since 1998) and co director of Columbia's APEC Study Center (since 1994). Professor Janow explains how the IEP concentration is slightly more structured than other concentrations, careers IEP concentrators generally end up pursuing, whether IEP is only for students with economics backgrounds and the general strengths of the SIPA program.
- Paul Reiber
Paul Reiber is the Chief Justice on the Vermont Supreme Court. Reiber graduated from Hampden-Sydney College in 1970 and from Suffolk University Law School in Boston, Massachusetts in 1974. Reiber was in private practice in Rutland until becoming a partner in Kenlan, Schweibert & Facey in 1986. He was appointed by Governor Jim Douglas as an Associate Justice in October 2003. Douglas swore him in as Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court on December 17, 2004.
- Chris Sacca
Christopher Sacca, is an employee of Google Inc. He is a strategist for infrastructure, communications, and related product development. His most visible projects include Google's technology facility in The Dalles, OR and Google's efforts to provide San Francisco and Mountain View, CA with free citywide WiFi. In addition, Sacca is a frequent public speaker on the subjects of innovation, disruption, and free public access to the Internet.
- Robert Ginty
Robert Ginty (born November 14, 1948 in New York, New York) is an American movie actor, producer, scenarist, and director of movies and TV series episodes. He is mostly famous for his many B-movie appearances.
- Inge Lehmann
Inge Lehmann (May 13, 1888 - February 21, 1993), Fellow of the Royal Society (London) 1969, was a Danish seismologist who, in 1936, argued that the Earth must not only have a molten interior, but a solid core at the centre, which deflects P waves. She also wrote a book called "P", which dealt with P waves and other aspects of seismography. She was awarded the Tagea Brandt Rejselegat twice, in 1938 and 1967.
- Samuel Alito Supreme Court Nomination
Opinion - Samuel Alito - Government - Abortion - Education - Religious - Executions - Military - Terrorism - Politics - " How Alito would shift high court on key issues: His confirmation hearings begin in the Senate Monday." ... "Where O'Connor rejected restrictions on abortion, Alito is likely to uphold them, legal analysts say.
- Isidore Godfrey
Isidore Godfrey (September 27 1900 - September 12 1977) was musical director of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company for 39 years, from 1929 to 1968. He conducted most of the Company's performances during that period, except for a few London seasons when Malcolm Sargent was guest conductor and brief periods in the summers of 1947 and 1948 when Boyd Neel filled in as guest conductor.
- Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson is a founder and Managing Partner of Union Square Ventures. Fred began his career in venture capital in 1987 and he has focused exclusively on information technology investments for the past 16 years. From 1987 to 1996, Fred was first an Associate and then a General Partner at Euclid Partners, an early stage venture capital firm located in New York City. In 1996, Fred co-founded Flatiron Partners.
- Rick Amor
Rick Amor (born 1948) is an Australian artist and figurative painter. He was an official war artist.
- Pius Cheung
Pius Cheung (born 1982) is a marimbist and composer.
- Steven Karidoyanes
Steven Karidoyanes (b. November 5 1957, Boston, Massachusetts) to Michael and Tula Karidoyanes is an American composer, broadcaster and conductor with the Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra. The Boston native of Greek descent brings a wealth of musical experiences to the podium. He holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from Boston University and received training in orchestral conducting at the Canford School of Music in Dorset, England, …
- Nicholas Grigsby
Nicholas Grigsby (b 1974) is a prominent New Zealand Concert Organist, Harpsichordist, Writer, Broadcaster and Music Critic. A former Organ Scholar of Salisbury Cathedral UK, he studied organ & improvisation with Colin Walsh, Organist Laureate of Lincoln Cathedral, Peter Wright (Southwark Cathedral, London) and in France at Rouen Conservatoire with the blind organist, Louis Thiry, a former pupil of the late blind "Virtuoso" Marchal.
- Sigmund Zeisler
Sigmund Zeisler (1860-1931) was an Austrian-born U.S. attorney, known for his defense of radicals in Chicago in the 1880s. His wife was the famed concert pianist Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler.
- Robert Orledge
Robert Orledge is a leading scholar of early twentieth century French music. He was born in Bath, Somerset on 5 January 1948 and educated at the City of Bath Boys' School (1958-65) and at Clare College, Cambridge (1965-71) where he gained a BA (Hons) Music degree in 1968 and an MA in 1972. He was awarded a Ph.D. for his thesis: A Study of the Composer Charles Koechlin (1867-1950) in May 1973.
- Leif Thorsson
Leif Thorsson, born July 4 1945 in Malmö, Sverige. A Swedish jurist specialized in corporate law. Judge in the Supreme Court of Sweden since September 9 1993. Education: law degree (Jur. kand.). Leif Thorsson is also the recipient of a honorary doctorate degree in law from Stockholm University. He is, in addition to his position at the Supreme Court, …
- Allan Higdon
Allan L. Higdon served as acting mayor of Ottawa, Canada from July 2000 to 2001. Born in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, he immigrated to Canada in 1957. He received a BA from Queen's University in English and History and received a Bachelor's of Education from the University of Toronto. He then worked with the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. He would later move to Ottawa after living in Toronto and southeast Asia, where he would teach high school.
- Mario Marcel Salas
Mario Marcel Salas. (born July 30, 1949 in San Antonio, Texas) is a civil rights leader, author and politician. His parents were an Afro-Mexican father and a mixed race mother. He graduated from Phyllis Wheatley High School, an African American segregated school. It was soon after high school that he joined the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and became a civil rights worker for over 30 years.
- Dorothy Hansine Andersen
Dorothy Hansine Andersen (May 15, 1901 - 1963) was the American who was "the first person to identify cystic fibrosis and the first American physician to describe the disease". She received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in 1922, and her M.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1926. She taught at the University of Rochester prior to joining the faculty of Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, working at Babies Hospital, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, …
- Annalee Jefferies
Annalee Jefferies (born May 14, 1954 in Houston, Texas) is a stage actress.
- Edmund Greacen
Edmund Greacen was an American Impressionist painter. He was born in New York City, New York. He graduated from New York University. After traveling around the world he entered the Art Students League of New York. He also took classes at the New York School of Art, where he studied with William Merritt Chase. He traveled to Spain with the Chase class in 1905, and then went on to study in the Netherlands, Belgium, and England.
- James R. Houghton
James R. Houghton Chairman Emeritus Corning Incorporated Mr. Houghton joined Corning in 1962. He was elected a vice president of Corning and general manager of the Consumer Products Division in 1968, vice chairman in 1971, chairman of the executive committee and chief strategic officer in 1980 and chairman and chief executive officer in April 1983, retiring in April 1996. Mr. Houghton was the non-executive chairman of the Board of Corning from June 2001 to April 2002.