- David Tennant
David Tennant is the stage name of David John McDonald (born 18 April 1971), a Scottish actor from Bathgate, West Lothian, best known as the tenth actor to portray the Doctor in the television series "Doctor Who". Already a well-known theatre actor, Tennant achieved wider fame for his TV roles in "Casanova" and "Doctor Who", as well as his film role as Barty Crouch Jr in "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". - Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May, 1859 - 7 July, 1930) was a Scottish born author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction. - Hugh Grant
Hugh John Mungo Grant (born September 9, 1960) is a Golden Globe-winning English actor. - Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra is an Indian medical doctor and writer. He has written extensively on spirituality and diverse topics in mind-body medicine. He claims to be influenced by the teachings of Vedanta and the Bhagavad Gita from his native India, and quantum physics. He also said that he has been profoundly influenced by the teachings of J Krishnamurti. - Grant Morrison
Grant Morrison (born January 31, 1960) is a Scottish comic book writer and artist. He is best-known for his nonlinear narratives and counter-cultural leanings. - T. R. Knight
Theodore Raymond “T.R.” Knight is an American actor. Knight's most high-profile role to date is his current role as Dr. George O'Malley on ABC's top-rated drama "Grey's Anatomy". - Graham Chapman
Graham Chapman (January 8, 1941 - October 4, 1989) was an English comedian, actor, writer, physician and one of the six members of the Monty Python comedy troupe. He was also the lead actor in their two narrative films, playing King Arthur in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and the title character in "Monty Python's Life of Brian". - Wernher von Braun
Dr. Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (March 23 1912 - June 16 1977) was one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Germany and the United States. The German scientist, who led Germany's rocket development program (V-2) before and during World War II, entered the United States at the end of the war through the then-secret Operation Paperclip. - Ralph Steadman
Ralph Steadman (born Wallasey, May 15, 1936) is a British cartoonist and caricaturist. Born in Wallasey, Cheshire, and brought up in Towyn, North Wales, Steadman attended Ysgol Emrys Ap Iwan (high school), Abergele, East Ham Technical College and the London College of Printing and Graphic Arts during the 1960s, doing freelance work for "Punch, Private Eye," the "Daily Telegraph," the "New York Times" and "Rolling Stone" during this time. - William Cadogan
William Cadogan (1711-1797) was a 18th century British physician and writer on childcare and nursing. In the 1740s Cadogan became a honorary medical attendant of the London Foundling Hospital for abandoned babies. By 1748 Cadogan was a prominent London physician famous for his studies of gout. - J. P. R. Williams
John Peter Rhys Williams (born 2 March 1949 in Cardiff, Wales), known universally as JPR Williams, played rugby union for Wales between 1969 and 1981. Williams was also a tennis player. There is a popular urban myth that he won Junior Wimbledon in 1966 (in fact won by a Soviet, Korotkov). However, it is true that he won a British Junior competition that happened to be held at Wimbledon that year, beating David Lloyd. - Mike Cadogan
Emergency Physician, Rugby Doctor and internet entrepreneur. CEO of HealthEngine.com.au, an health search engine designed to provide rapid contact with health professionals in Australia. CIO of Popfossa.com a world medical and allied health conference / scientific meeting resource. Emergency physician at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and resuscitation doctor for the Western Force. Passionate about medical education and running LifeInTheFastLane.com to help disseminate medical education. - John van der Post
- George Jelinek
Academic emergency physician Perth Western Australia; group leader Gawler Foundation Multiple Sclerosis Residential Retreats - Eddie Murphy
Edward "Eddie" Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961, Brooklyn, New York City) is an Academy Award nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and comedian. He was a regular cast member on "Saturday Night Live" from 1980 to 1984, and has worked as a stand-up comedian. He has also enjoyed a minor singing career. Murphy has received Golden Globe nominations for best actor in a comedy or musical for his performances in "Beverly Hills Cop", … - Jason Armstrong
- Idit Harel Caperton
Idit Harel Caperton, Ph.D. (born September 18 1958 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an educational psychologist and epistemologist specializing in the study of the impact of computer-based new media technology on the social and academic development of children. Her research, along with that of Seymour Papert, has contributed to the development of constructionist learning theory, a hands-on approach to the use of technology as a tool in juvenile education and acculturation. - Vasant Honavar
Vasant Honavar is an American computer scientist, specializing in artificial intelligence. He received his Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he worked with Leonard Uhr. Vasant Honavar is a professor of Computer Science at Iowa State University. He heads the Iowa State University Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory. He is the founding director of the Iowa State University Center for Computational Intelligence, Learning and Discovery. - Norman Finkelstein
Norman G. Finkelstein (born December 8 1953) is an American professor of political science and author. A graduate of Binghamton University, he received his Ph.D in Political Science from Princeton University. He has held faculty positions at Brooklyn College, Rutgers University, Hunter College, New York University, and most recently, DePaul University, where he is an assistant professor since 2001. Finkelstein was denied tenure at DePaul in June 2007, … - Doug Lamborn
Doug Lamborn (born May 24, 1954, Leavenworth, Kansas) is a Republican politician for the U.S. state of Colorado. He currently serves in the United States House of Representatives as the Congressman for Colorado's 5th congressional district. Lamborn attended the University of Kansas, where he received a bachelor's degree in journalism and graduated with his Juris Doctor. Lamborn practiced law as an attorney before entering politics. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11 1884 - November 7 1962) was an American political leader who used her influence as an active First Lady from 1933 to 1945 to promote the New Deal policies of her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as well as taking a prominent role as an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, she continued to be an internationally prominent author and speaker for the New Deal coalition. - John Barrowman
John Barrowman (born 11 March, 1967 in Mount Vernon, Glasgow) is a British-American actor, musical performer, dancer, singer, and TV presenter who has lived and worked both in the United Kingdom and the United States. He currently lives in the UK. He became a United States citizen in 1985, and holds dual US/UK citizenship. Barrowman is best known on British television for his acting and his presenting work on theatre. - Douglas Adams
Douglas Noël Adams was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. He is best known as author of the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series. "Hitchhiker's" began on radio, and developed into a "trilogy" of five books (which sold more than fifteen million copies during his lifetime) as well as a television series, a towel, a comic book series, a computer game and a feature film that was completed after Adams' death. - Myron Scholes
Myron S. Scholes, born in Timmins, Ontario, Canada, on July 1, 1941, is one of the authors of the famous Black-Scholes equation. In 1997 he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for "a new method to determine the value of derivatives". The model provides the fundamental conceptual framework for valuing options, such as calls or puts, and is referred to as the Black-Scholes model, which has become the standard in financial markets globally. - John Kenneth Muir
John Kenneth Muir, born December 3 1969, is the author of twenty-one reference books in the fields of film and television, with a particular accent on the horror and science fiction genres. He has written a book about Kevin Smith, entitled "An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith" (Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, 2002), a study of Sam Raimi entitled "The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi" (Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, … - Leon M. Lederman
Leon Max Lederman (born July 15, 1922 in New York) is an American experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 for his work on neutrinos. He is Director Emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois. He founded the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, in Aurora, Illinois in 1986, and has served in the capacity of Resident Scholar since 1998. - Manmohan Singh
Dr. Manmohan Singh is the 17<sup>th</sup> and current Prime Minister of India. Dr. Singh is a member of the Indian National Congress party and became the first Sikh to become Prime Minister of India on May 22, 2004. He is arguably the most educated Indian Prime Minister in history. He is considered one of the most qualified and influential figures in India's recent history, … - Gordon Moore
Gordon Earle Moore (b. January 3, 1929 in San Francisco, California) is the co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation and the author of Moore's Law (published in an article 19 April 1965 in "Electronics Magazine"). Moore was born in San Francisco, California. He received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1950 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry and Physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1954. - Amir Pnueli
Amir Pnueli (born April 22, 1941) is an Israeli computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1996 "for seminal work introducing temporal logic into computing science and for outstanding contributions to program and systems verification". Born in Nahalal, Israel, Pnueli received a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics at the Technion in Haifa, and Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the Weizmann Institute of Science. - John Ralston Saul
John Ralston Saul, CC, Ph.D (born June 19, 1947) is a Canadian author and essayist. As an essayist Saul is particularly known for his commentaries on the nature of individualism, citizenship and the public good; the failures of manager-, or more precisely technocrat-, led societies; the confusion between leadership and managerialism; military strategy, … - Chris Ferguson
Chris "Jesus" Ferguson (born Christopher Philip Ferguson April 11 1963, in Los Angeles, California) is a professional poker player. Ferguson attended UCLA where he earned a Ph.D. in computer science (focusing on virtual network algorithms) in 1999 after five years as an undergraduate and 13 years as a graduate student. His Ph.D. advisor was Leonard Kleinrock. Ferguson's parents have doctoral degrees in mathematics and his father, Thomas Ferguson, … - Simon Pegg
Simon John Pegg (born 14 February 1970 in Gloucester) is an English stand-up comedian, writer and film and television actor. He is known for his title roles in "Shaun of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz", and for the British sitcom "Spaced". Much of his major work has been in collaboration with some combination of Nick Frost, Jessica Hynes and Edgar Wright. - John Of The Cross
Saint John of the Cross (June 24, 1542 - December 14, 1591) was a major figure in the Catholic Reformation, a Spanish mystic and Carmelite friar born at Fontiveros, a small village near Ávila. He is renowned for his cooperation with Saint Teresa of Avila in the reformation of the Carmelite order, … - Jillian Hall
Jillian Fletcher (born September 6, 1980) is an American professional wrestler who currently performs for World Wrestling Entertainment on its "RAW" brand under the ring name Jillian Hall. - 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. - Paul Martin
Paul Edgar Philippe Martin, PC, MP, BA, LLB, LLD (h.c.) (born August 28, 1938) was the 21st Prime Minister of Canada and a former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. On November 14, 2003, Martin succeeded Jean Chrétien as leader of the Liberal Party and became Prime Minister on December 12, 2003. The 2004 election yielded a minority government in which the Liberals under Martin remained in power. - Christopher Lloyd
Christopher Allen Lloyd (born October 22, 1938) is a three-time Emmy Award-winning American character actor. - Liam Fox
Dr. Liam Fox (born September 22 1961) is a UK Conservative politician, currently Shadow Defence Secretary and Member of Parliament for Woodspring. - John Sessions
John Sessions (born January 11 1953) is a Scottish actor and comedian. He is known for comedy improvisation in television shows such as "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and as a frequent panelist on "QI". - Thomas Aquinas
Saint Thomas Aquinas (also Thomas of Aquin, or Aquino; c. 1225 - 7 March 1274) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest in the Order of Preachers, a philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition, known as Doctor Angelicus, Doctor Universalis and Doctor Communis. He is the foremost classical proponent of natural theology, and the father of the Thomistic school of philosophy and theology. St.
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