- Catherine Zeta-Jones
Catherine Zeta-Jones (born 25 September, 1969) is a Welsh actress. She began her career on stage at an early age. After starring in a number of television films and small roles in films, she came to prominence with roles in films such as "The Phantom", "The Mask of Zorro", and "Entrapment" in the late 1990s. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for portraying Velma Kelly in the 2002 film adaptation of "Chicago". - Richard Gere
Richard Tiffany Gere (born August 31, 1949) is an American actor. He first became famous during the 1980s, after appearing in several successful Hollywood films, including "An Officer and a Gentleman", and has since retained his status as a leading man. During the 1990s and 2000s, he starred in several well-received films, "Pretty Woman", "Primal Fear", and "Chicago" for which he won a Golden Globe award as Best Actor. - Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II born August 4, 1961 is the President-elect of the United States of America. The first African American to be elected President of the United States, Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois in 2004 and served until his resignation on November 16, 2008, following his election to the Presidency. His term of office as the forty-fourth U.S. president will begin on January 20, 2009. - Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor. He is best known for his performances as the tough, wisecracking space pilot Han Solo in the "Star Wars" film series, and the adventurous archaeologist/action hero in the Indiana Jones film series. Ford has also been the star of many high-grossing hits Hollywood blockbusters such as "Air Force One" and "The Fugitive", which have distanced him from his famous Star Wars and Indiana Jones roles. - Robin Williams
Robin McLaurin Williams (born July 21, 1951) is an American actor and comedian. He has had starring roles on television, stage, and film, and has won an Academy Award. - Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Kate Hudson (born September 12, 1981) is an Academy Award-winning American actress and singer. She first gained notice as one of the finalists on the third season of the FOX television series "American Idol". She went on to star as Effie White in the 2006 musical film "Dreamgirls", for which she won an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and a SAG Award, as well as two BET Awards. - Kanye West
Kanye Omari West (pronounced /'kɑn.je(ɪ)/) (born June 8 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American record producer and rapper. He has released his debut album "The College Dropout", his second album "Late Registration", and is working on a third album coming out in 2007 called "Graduation". Both "The College Dropout" and "Late Registration" have received numerous awards. Kanye West also runs his own record label, GOOD Music. - Adam Baldwin
Adam Baldwin (born February 27 1962) is an American actor. He is known for his role as Animal Mother in Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket", and established a cult following as Jayne Cobb in the series "Firefly", and the movie "Serenity". - Bill Murray
William James "Bill" Murray (b. September 21, 1950) is an Academy Award-nominated, Emmy-winning and Golden Globe-winning American comedian and actor. He is perhaps most famous for his work in "Saturday Night Live", as well as for his comedic roles in films such as "Stripes", "Groundhog Day", "Caddyshack", "Ghostbusters" and "Rushmore", among many others. He has gained further acclaim for recent dramatic roles, … - Gillian Anderson
Gillian Leigh Anderson (born August 9, 1968) is an Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning American actress, best known for her roles as FBI Agent Dana Scully in the American TV series "The X-Files" and Lady Dedlock in the BBC TV series "Bleak House". - Bobby Fischer
Robert James "Bobby" Fischer is a United States-born chess Grandmaster who in 1972 became the only US-born chessplayer to become the official World Chess Champion. In 1974 he officially resigned the title when FIDE, the international chess federation, refused to accept his conditions for a title defense. He is a regular candidate in considerations of the greatest chess player of all time. - Jeremy Piven
Jeremy Samuel Piven (born July 26, 1965) is an Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Ari Gold on the HBO series "Entourage". - Maria Kanellis
Maria Kanellis (Born February 25 1982) better known simply as Maria, is an American professional wrestler, currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment performing on its "RAW" brand. She also made regular appearances in WWE's training territory, Ohio Valley Wrestling. - R. Kelly
Robert Sylvester Kelly (born January 8, 1967 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American Urban R&B singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and occasional rapper. He first appeared on the music scene as the founder and lead singer of Public Announcement whose smooth mixture of hip-hop beats, soul, and funk propelled the group's 1992 debut album "Born Into the '90s" to platinum status. - Lisa Guerrero
Lisa Coles Guerrero (born April 8, 1964 in Chicago, Illinois), is an American sports broadcaster, actress, host and model. Although she mostly uses Guerrero, her late mother's maiden name, she also is sometimes credited as Lisa Coles, her father's surname. - John Cusack
John Paul Cusack (born June 28, 1966) is an American film actor and writer. - Jennifer Morrison
Jennifer Marie Morrison (born April 12, 1979 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress, model and film producer. She is best known for her role as Dr. Allison Cameron on the Fox drama, House, M.D. - William Irwin Thompson
William Irwin Thompson (born July 16, 1938) is known primarily as a social philosopher and cultural critic, but has recently been writing mostly poetry. He has made significant contributions to cultural history, social criticism, the philosophy of science, and the study of myth. He describes his writing and speaking style as "mind-jazz on ancient texts". He is an astute reader of science, social science, history, and literature. - Patricia Arquette
Patricia T. Arquette (born April 8, 1968) is an Emmy Award-winning and a Golden Globe Award-nominated American actress. - Mr. T
Mr. T (born Laurence Tureaud on May 21 1952) is an iconic actor known for his roles as Sgt. "B. A." Baracus in the 1980s television series "The A-Team", as boxer Clubber Lang in the 1982 film "Rocky III", and for his numerous appearances in the WWE and pro-wrestling. He is also well-known for his distinctive mohawk hairstyle and for wearing an excessive amount of gold jewelry. He currently stars in the reality show "I Pity the Fool", … - Fred Aaron Savage
Frederick Aaron Savage (born July 9, 1976) is an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-nominated American actor and television director. - Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. Nicknamed "Papa", he was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris known as "the Lost Generation", as described in his memoir "A Moveable Feast." He led a turbulent social life, was married four times, and allegedly had various romantic relationships during his lifetime. - Lupe Fiasco
Wasalu Muhammad Jaco (born February 16 1982), better known by his stage name Lupe Fiasco, is an American rapper. He came to fame in 2006 following the success of his debut album, "Food & Liquor", which received three Grammy nominations. - Walt Elias Disney
Walter Elias Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Disney is notable as one of the most influential and innovative figures in the field of entertainment during the twentieth century. As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Walt became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. - Patti Smith
Patricia Lee ("Patti") Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American musician, singer, and poet. Smith came to prominence during the punk movement with her 1975 debut album "Horses". Called "punk rock's poet laureate", she brought a feminist and intellectual take to punk music and became one of rock and roll's most influential musicians. - Ray Bradbury
Ray Douglas Bradbury (born August 22 1920) is an American literary, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer best known for "The Martian Chronicles", a 1950 book which has been described both as a short story collection and a novel, and his 1953 dystopian novel "Fahrenheit 451". - Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981-1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967-1975). Reagan was born in Illinois, but moved to Hollywood in the 1930s, where he starred in numerous "B" movies and became President of the Screen Actors Guild. He was a prominent Democrat who supported the New Deal Coalition in the 1940s, and was a leading opponent of Communism in Hollywood. - Richard Lindzen
Richard Siegmund Lindzen, Ph.D., (born February 8, 1940) is an atmospheric physicist and the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lindzen is known for his research in dynamic meteorology, especially planetary waves. He has been a critic of some anthropogenic global warming theories and the political pressures surrounding climate scientists. He wrote an op-ed for the "Wall Street Journal" in April, 2006, … - Kirk Hinrich
(born January 2 1981 in Sioux City, Iowa) is an American NBA basketball player, currently starting at point guard for the Chicago Bulls. He is also a member of the USA National Team. Hinrich was exposed to basketball at an early age, due to his father, Jim, being a high school basketball coach in Sioux City, Hinrich's father, coached him from the third grade through high school. As a high school senior, Hinrich was named the 1999 Co-Iowa Mr. Basketball, … - Ali Larter
Alison Elizabeth "Ali" Larter (born February 28, 1976) is an American actress and former fashion model best known for her screen roles aimed at teenage audiences. Her best known television series is "Heroes". Her famous Hollywood films were "Varsity Blues", "House on Haunted Hill", "Final Destination", "Legally Blonde", and finally Resident Evil: Extinction' - Andrea James
Andrea Jean James (born January 16, 1967), is an American transsexual woman, film producer, screenwriter, actress, LGBT rights activist, and consumer activist. - Norman Mailer
Norman Kingsley Mailer (born January 31, 1923) is an American novelist, journalist, playwright, screenwriter and film director. Along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion and Tom Wolfe, Mailer is considered an innovator of creative nonfiction, a genre sometimes called New Journalism, but which covers the essay to the nonfiction novel. He has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice and the National Book Award once. - Jenny McCarthy
Jennifer "Jenny" McCarthy (born November 1, 1972, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American model, actress and author. She first appeared in Playboy magazine in October 1993 and was named Playmate of the Year in its June 1994 issue. She later began a career in television and film and has recently started writing books. - Marisol Nichols
Marisol Nichols is an American actress best known for her role in the sixth season of "24" as Special Agent Nadia Yassir. She is also known for her portrayal of Audrey Griswold in "Vegas Vacation". Nichols also portrayed Bianca, Chris Halliwell's assassin fiancée from the future, in "Chris-Crossed", an episode of "Charmed". - David Sedaris
David Sedaris (born December 26, 1956) is an American humorist and radio contributor. Much of his humor is autobiographical and self-deprecating, and it often concerns his family life, Greek heritage, various jobs, education, drug use, homosexuality and his life as an expatriate in France with his partner, Hugh. - Anastacia
Anastacia (born Anastacia Lyn Newkirk on September 17, 1973 or 1968) is an American pop singer and songwriter who has sold over 34 million records since the release of her debut album Not That Kind in 2000. She is noted for her powerful, raspy-sounding voice and ability to hit high notes in her chest voice. Anastacia became an icon in Europe, Oceania, and South Africa but has not yet made as big an impact in America. - Sean Bean
Seán Mark Bean is an English film and stage actor. Bean has also acted in a number of television productions as well as performing voice work for computer games and television adverts. As an actor, he adopted the Irish/Scottish spelling "Seán" of his first name. Bean is best known for his role as Boromir, in the The Lord of the Rings films and as James Bond adversary Alec Trevelyan in Goldeneye. - Thomas Easton
I have been teaching Computer Science, Environmental Science, and Life Science courses at Thomas College in Waterville, Maine, since 1983. A list of current and recent courses is available at http://www2.thomas.edu/faculty/easton/. Despite a doctorate in theoretical biology, I am clearly a generalist. - Sarah Vowell
Sarah Jane Vowell (born December 27, 1969) is an American author, journalist, humorist, and commentator. Often referred to as a "social observer", Vowell has authored several books and is a regular contributor to the radio program "This American Life" on Public Radio International. She was also the voice of Violet in the animated film "The Incredibles" and a short documentary, … - James D. Watson
James Dewey Watson born April 6, 1928) is an American molecular biologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule. Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".
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