- Bruce Wasserstein
Bruce Wasserstein (born December 25, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American investment banker and businessman. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, Harvard Business School, and Harvard Law School, and is currently the Chairman and CEO of Lazard LLC. Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Morris Wasserstein, a wealthy textile executive, and his wife, Lola Schleifer, Wasserstein is one of five children.
- Elisha Cuthbert
Elisha Ann Cuthbert (born November 30 1982) is a Canadian actress. She is known as the former co-host of the Canadian children's television series, "Popular Mechanics for Kids", and for her role as Kim Bauer in the American action-thriller television series "24". She had her first lead role in the 2004 feature film "The Girl Next Door".
- Will Smith
Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is a Golden Globe and Academy Award-nominated American actor, and a multiple Grammy Award-winning hip hop artist. He is one of a small group of people who have enjoyed success in three major entertainment media in the United States: feature films, television, and the music industry. "Newsweek" has named him the most powerful actor on the planet.
- Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 - May 14, 1998) was an American jazz oriented popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor. Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid 1940s, being the idol of the 'bobby soxers'. His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
- Paul Allen
Paul Gardner Allen (born January 21, 1953 in Seattle, Washington) is an American entrepreneur. With Bill Gates, he formed Microsoft. Allen regularly appears on lists of the richest people in the world; as of 2007 "Forbes" ranks him the fifth richest American, worth an estimated $18.0 billion. He is the founder and chairman of Vulcan Inc. (his private asset management company)and chairman of Charter Communications.
- Kelly Perdew
Kelly Crawford Perdew (born January 29,1967) of Carlsbad, California was the winner of the second season of "The Apprentice".
- Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Tyler Moore (born December 29 1936) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress and comedian, perhaps best known for "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" (1970-1977), in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30-something single woman who worked as a news producer at WJM-TV in Minneapolis, and for her role as Laura Petrie, wife of television comedy writer Rob Petrie (played by Dick Van Dyke) on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" (1961-1966).
- Frank Miller
Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957, is an American writer, artist and film director best known for his film noir-style comic book stories. He is one of the most widely-recognized and popular creators in comics, and is one of the most influential comics creators of his generation.
- Paul Graham
Paul Graham (b. Weymouth, England, 1964) is a Lisp programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist. He is the author of "On Lisp" (1993), "ANSI Common Lisp" (1995), and "Hackers & Painters" (2004).
- Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman (August 29 1915 - August 29 1982) was a three-time Academy Award-winning and two-time Emmy Award-winning Swedish actress. She also won one of the original Tony Awards. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.
- Chris Tucker
Christopher Tucker (born August 31, 1972 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American actor and comedian, whose distinctive characteristic is his high-pitched voice and portrayal of high-strung characters.
- Brian Alvey
Brian Alvey along with Jason Calacanis co-founded the publishing company Weblogs, Inc., home to such blogs as Engadget, Autoblog, Joystiq, TV Squad Cinematical and Slashfood. Time Warner's America Online purchased Weblogs, Inc. in October 2005. In November 2006, AOL also purchased the blogging platform Blogsmith which Alvey built. Blogsmith is used to power Weblogs, Inc. and other AOL blogs such as TMZ.com.
- Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr, CBE (born 30 September 1921) is a Golden Globe award winning Scottish actress who is best known today for starring in the films "The King and I", "An Affair to Remember" and "From Here to Eternity". Nominated six times for an Academy Award as Best Actress, she never won, but was a recipient of an Academy Honorary Award for a motion picture career that has always represented "Perfection, Discipline and Elegance".
- Paul Stanley
Stanley Harvey Eisen (born January 20, 1952, Queens, New York) known by his stage name Paul Stanley, is an American Hard rock guitarist and vocalist for the rock band Kiss. He is the writer or co-writer of most of the band's highest-charting hits, including "Rock and Roll All Nite," "Hard Luck Woman," "I Was Made For Lovin' You," "Crazy Crazy Nights" and "Forever."
- Rahul Bhandari
Rahul Bhandari is the Founding Managing Director of Paras Ventures LLC, an investment and consulting group for high-tech companies. He leverages over fifteen years of experience in venture development, M&A integration, and leading large-scale complex change programs to help companies succeed on a strategic and tactical basis.
- Boy George
George Alan O'Dowd, better known as Boy George (born June 14, 1961 in Eltham) is a pop singer-songwriter. George grew up in a large, working-class Irish family, which originated in Thurles, in Co. Tipperary, Ireland. O'Dowd gained fame with his group Culture Club during the 1980s. His music is often classified as blue-eyed soul, since he was heavily influenced by Rhythm and Blues and reggae.
- Ted Haggard
Ted Arthur Haggard (born June 27, 1956) is a former American evangelical preacher. Known as Pastor Ted to the congregations he has served, he is the founder and disgraced former pastor of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado; a founder of the Association of Life-Giving Churches; and was leader of the National Association of Evangelicals from 2003 until November 2006.
- Rock Hudson
Rock Hudson (November 17, 1925 - October 2, 1985) was a popular American film and television actor, noted for his splendid, virile looks and most remembered as a romantic leading man during the 1950s and 1960s. Hudson was voted "Star of the Year," "Favorite Leading Man," or any number of similar titles by numerous movie magazines and was unquestionably one of the most popular and well-known movie stars of the time.
- Dennis Haskins
Dennis Haskins (born November 18, 1950 in Chattanooga, Tennessee) is an American actor best known for his role as principal Richard Belding in the teen sitcom "Saved by the Bell", which ran from 1989 to 1993 on NBC. He then went on to star in Saved by the Bell: The New Class, which aired from 1993 to 2000. Before his foray into acting, Haskins briefly worked as a concert promoter, associating with the likes of Earth, Wind, and Fire and Tom Jones.
- Gavin Degraw
Gavin DeGraw (born February 4, 1977) is an American pop singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist.
- Manning Marable
Manning Marable (b. 13 May 1950 in Dayton, Ohio) is an American political scholar. He holds the position of Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, and History at Columbia University, where he founded and directed the Institute for Research in African-American Studies. He has published widely, and is politically active in a variety of progressive causes.
- John Carmack
John D. Carmack II (born August 20 1970) is a widely recognized figure in the video game industry. A prolific American programmer, Carmack co-founded id Software, a computer game development company, in 1991. Carmack was the lead programmer of the highly successful id computer games "Commander Keen", "Wolfenstein 3D", "Doom", "Quake", and subsequent sequels to "Doom" and "Quake".
- Jacques Chirac
Jacques René Chirac is a French politician and a former President of France. He served from 1995 until May 16 2007 and was re-elected in 2002. As President he was also an "ex officio" Co-Prince of Andorra and Grand Master of the French Légion d'honneur. After completing his studies at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris and the École Nationale d'Administration, Jacques Chirac began his career as a high-level civil servant, and soon entered politics.
- Patrick Norton
Patrick Norton (born June 26 1970, Urbana, Illinois) was co-host and managing editor of "The Screen Savers", an interactive television program on TechTV geared toward the technology enthusiast. He is now the host of the IPTV show "DL.TV", as well as an editor for ExtremeTech. He claimed on an episode of dl.tv his official job title is 'head of podcasts' for Ziff Davis Media. Prior to joining TechTV, Norton tested products and wrote for "PC Magazine", …
- Robert Cailliau
Robert Cailliau (b. 26 January 1947) is one of the co-developers of the World Wide Web.
- Ray Jackendoff
Ray Jackendoff (born January 23, 1945) is an influential contemporary linguist who has always straddled the boundary between generative linguistics and cognitive linguistics, committed as he is both to the existence of an innate Universal Grammar (an important thesis of generative linguistics) and to giving an account of language that meshes well with the current understanding of the human mind and cognition (the main purpose of cognitive linguistics).
- Tommy Douglas
Thomas Clement Douglas, PC, CC, SOM, MA, LL.D (hc) (October 20, 1904 - February 24, 1986) was a Scottish-born Baptist minister who became a prominent Canadian social democratic politician. As leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) from 1942 and the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961, he led the first socialist government in North America and introduced universal public medicare to Canada.
- Michael Ovitz
Michael S. Ovitz (b. December 14 1946, Los Angeles, California) is a former talent agent and Hollywood powerhouse who served as the head of the Creative Artists Agency from 1975 to 1995. After graduating from UCLA with a degree in theater, film and television, Ovitz began his career at the William Morris Agency, but left with four other agents in 1975 to found Creative Artists Agency. While at CAA, he was responsible for pioneering the practice of "packaging" writers, …
- Milan Hejduk
Milan Hejduk is a professional ice hockey player.
- Adam Morrison
Adam John Morrison is an American professional basketball player with the Charlotte Bobcats of the National Basketball Association. Morrison played for three years at Gonzaga University and was considered to be one of the top college basketball players in 2005–06. He was a finalist for the Naismith and the Wooden Award.
- Bear Bryant
Paul William "Bear" Bryant was an American college football coach. He was best known as the longtime head coach of the University of Alabama football team, and is the namesake of the Paul W. Bryant Museum.
- Mark Ronson
Mark Ronson (born September 4, 1977 in London) is a music producer, artist and co-founder of Allido Records. So far in his career he is best known for his song Ooh Wee featuring Ghostface Killah and Nate Dogg and the cover version of The Smiths song Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before which featured Daniel Merriweather on vocals. Often compared to a modern-day Jools Holland, he is the son of socialite/writer Ann Dexter-Jones and Laurence Ronson.
- Hiroshi Yamauchi
(born November 7, 1927) is a Japanese businessman. He was the third president of Nintendo Co., Ltd. beginning in 1949 until stepping down on May 31, 2002. Yamauchi is credited with transforming Nintendo from a small hanafuda card making company in Japan to the multi-billion dollar video game company that it is today. Yamauchi was succeeded at Nintendo by Satoru Iwata. Yamauchi also became the majority owner of the Seattle Mariners baseball team in 1992, …
- Chauncey Billups
Chauncey Ray Billups (born September 25, 1976 in Denver, Colorado) is an American professional basketball player. Billups is the starting point guard and team captain for the National Basketball Association's Detroit Pistons. He played college basketball at the University of Colorado. He was honored by the university in 2004 as the fifth player to have his jersey (number 4) retired. His nickname is "Mr. Big Shot." He was the 2004 NBA Finals Most Valuable Player.
- Michelle Yeoh
Dato' Michelle Yeoh Choo-Kheng (Cantonese (Yale romanization): yèuhng jí kìhng; born August 6, 1962) is a Hong Kong-based actress and dancer, sometimes billed as "Michelle Khan". Yeoh is a Chinese Malaysian born in Ipoh, Malaysia. Yeoh was chosen by People magazine as one of the "50 Most Beautiful People in the World" in 1997.
- Darlene Rodriguez
Darlene Rodriguez (born 1970) is co-anchor of "Today in New York" on WNBC-TV. Rodriguez became co-anchor of the show in July 2003 after serving as a reporter for WNBC and then co-anchor of "Weekend Today" in New York. Rodriguez has also served as a fill in newsreader for Ann Curry on "The Today Show" on NBC. Before WNBC she was a general assignment reporter for WCBS Newsradio 88 for four years.
- Jim Kurose
Jim Kurose is a computer science professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was born in 1949 in Middletown, Massachusetts, USA. His main area of research is computer networking. He is co-author of the well known textbook "Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach" currently in its Fourth Edition with Addison-Wesley as the publisher.
- Munir Said Thalib
Munir Said Thalib (December 8, 1965 - September 7, 2004), affectionately known simply as 'Munir', was Indonesia's most famous Human Rights and anti-corruption activist. The founder of the Kontras human rights organisation and laureate of the Right Livelihood Award, Munir was assassinated in 2004 while travelling to Utrecht University to pursue a Master's degree in international law and human rights
- Felix Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born and known generally as Felix Mendelssohn (February 3, 1809 - November 4, 1847) was a German composer and conductor of the early Romantic period. Born to a notable Jewish family, being the grandson of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. His work includes symphonies, concertos, oratorios, piano and chamber music. After a long period of relative denigration due to changing musical tastes in the late 19th century, …
- Russell Means
Russell Means (born November 10, 1939) is one of contemporary America's best-known and prolific activists for the rights of American Indians. Means has also pursued careers in politics, acting, and music.