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Thea Christiansen Foss (8 June 1857 - 7 June 1927) was the founder of Foss Maritime, the largest tugboat company in the western United States, and the real-life person on which the "Tugboat Annie" series was based. Thea came to the United States from Eidsberg, Norway and married Norwegian immigrant Andrew Foss in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1889 she started the Foss Launch Company, which eventually became the Seattle-based Foss Maritime. - Chris Foss
Christopher Foss (born 1946) is a British illustrator and science fiction artist, best known for his science fiction book covers and the illustrations for the original editions of "The Joy of Sex". - Eugene Foss
Eugene Noble Foss, (September 24, 1858-September 13, 1939) was a Representative and govenor from Massachusetts, as well as brother of George Edmund Foss. Born in West Berkshire, near St. Albans, Vermont, he attended the public schools, Franklin County Academy at St. Albans, Vermont, and the University of Vermont. He settled in Boston, Massachusetts in 1882 working in the manufacture of iron and steel. - George E. Foss
George Edmund Foss (July 2, 1863 - March 15, 1936) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois, brother of Eugene Noble Foss. Born in West Berkshire, Vermont, Foss attended the common schools, and was graduated from Harvard University in 1885. He attended Columbia Law School and the School of Political Science in New York City. He was graduated from Union College of Law at Chicago, Illinois, in 1889. - Joe Foss
Joseph Jacob "Joe" Foss (April 17, 1915-January 1, 2003) was a leading "ace" fighter pilot in the United States Marine Corps during World War II, a 1943 recipient of the Medal of Honor, a general in the Air National Guard, and the 20th Governor of South Dakota. - Dickie Foss
Sidney Richard 'Dickie' Foss (28 November 1912 - unknown) was an English football player and coach, who had a 30 year association with Chelsea. Born in Barking, Foss started out with amateur side Southall, before signing for Chelsea in 1936. Playing at half-back, Foss made 48 appearances for the club, and was one of only a handful of players to play for Chelsea both before and after World War II (the others being Dick Spence and Jimmy Argue). - Craig Foss
Craig Foss is a New Zealand politician, and currently serves as a member of Parliament. Foss was born in Lower Hutt, and attended Victoria University of Wellington. He worked in the banking sector, first for the Bank of New Zealand and then for Credit Suisse in London. In the 2005 election, Foss was a candidate for the National Party, standing in the Tukituki electorate and being ranked 44th on the party list. He won the Tukituki seat and entered Parliament. sco:Craig Foss - Frank Foss
Frank Kent Foss (May 9, 1895 - April 5, 1989) was an American athlete who competed in the men's pole vault. He competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics and won gold, beating Danish pole vaulter Henry Petersen. Foss graduated from Cornell University in 1917, where he was also a member of the Quill and Dagger society. - Frank H. Foss
Frank Herbert Foss (b. Augusta, Maine, September 20 1865 - d. Fitchburg, Massachusetts, February 15 1947) was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. He attended public schools in Augusta, Maine and graduated from Kent Hill (Maine) Seminary in 1886. He moved to Fitchburg in 1893. He worked for a general contractor in the construction of industrial plants. - Henry Foss
Henry Foss (1891-1986) was a civic leader in Tacoma, Washington, USA. He was the son of Norwegian immigrant parents, Andrew and Thea Foss, first owners and operators of Foss Launch and Tug Company. It is after his mother that the famed "Tugboat Annie" series was written. Henry Foss High School in Tacoma, Washington is named after him. - Per-Kristian Foss
Per-Kristian Foss (born July 19, 1950 in Oslo) is a Norwegian politician (Conservatives), member of the Norwegian National Assembly since 1981, and former Minister of Finance 2001-2005. He's received much attention for being the first openly gay minister in a Norwegian government and lives in registered partnership, as does his personal assistant. He also acted as Prime Minister very briefly in 2002. - Sam Walter Foss
Sam Walter Foss, June 19, 1858 - February 26,1911, was a librarian and poet whose most famous works included "The House by the Side of the Road" and "The Coming American." He was born in rural Candia, New Hampshire. Foss lost his mother at age four, worked on his father's farm and went to school in the winter. He graduated from Brown University in 1882, and would be considered illustrious enough to warrant having his name inscribed on the mace. - Edward Foss
Edward Foss (October 16, 1787 - July 27, 1870) was an English lawyer and biographer. He was born in London. He became a solicitor, and on his retirement from practice in 1840, devoted himself to the study of legal antiquities. His "Judges of England" (9 vols., 1848-1864) was regarded as a standard work, characterized by accuracy and extensive research. "Biographia Juridica, a Biographical Dictionary of English Judges", appeared shortly after his death. - Harrison Foss
Harrison Foss (born 4th November, 1988, Chingford, London) is a British actor who appeared in the comedy film Popcorn, (as 'Screamer 2') written by Darren Fisher, starring Jack Ryder and Jodi Albert. Harrison recently appeared on the ITV drama Life Begins as Al. - Jamie Foss
Jamie Foss is a singer and actress from Erskine, Minnesota. In 2004, she won $50,000, plus a recording contract on The WB's "Superstar USA," a parody of FOX's hit show "American Idol." Jamie beat out contestants Mario Rodgers and Rosa McIntyre to become the winner of the show. During Jamie's audition, while trying to sing Madonna's "Like a Virgin," she was well known for reading the lyrics of the song on her hand. - Charles Calveley Foss
Charles Calveley Foss VC, CB, DSO (9 March 1885-9 April 1953) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 30 years old, and a captain in the 2nd Battalion, The Bedfordshire Regiment, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 12 March 1915 at Neuve Chapelle, … - Karen Foss
Karen Foss, born Karen Colleen Graham in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, is a television anchor woman on KSDK in St. Louis, Missouri. Foss has won six Emmys, two for best anchor, named media personality of the year, and acquired the highest “Q” rating as the best known news reader in the local market. In 2005, she was inducted into the Silver Circle by the National Academy of Television, … - Heidi Foss
Heidi Foss is a Canadian television writer. She has written for the shows "Radio Active", "Timothy Goes to School" and "Fries with That?". - Richard Foss
Richard Foss is an American journalist and science fiction author, also active in science fiction fandom. In addition, he has chaired science fiction conventions and worked as a travel agent, restaurant reviewer, lecturer in Elizabethan history, and ballet choreographer. - Byron Foss
Byron Foss (born October 6, 1979) is an American soccer player, who spent the 2004 season playing goalkeeper for the A-League's Syracuse Salty Dogs, but whose contract is currently owned by the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer. Foss was undrafted after graduating from Southern Methodist University in 2003, but was signed to the Rapids' developmental roster on March 18, 2003. - Reginald E. Foss
Reginald E. Foss was a member of the Dixie Mission, an American observation mission to Yan'an, China, in 1944 to investigate and establish official relations with the Chinese Communists - Henrich Herman Mejer Foss
Henrich Herman Mejer Foss (1790-1853) was the Norwegian Minister of the Navy 1845-1848. - Jørgen Foss
Jørgen Foss has acted in the series "The School" which was broadcast on NRK in 2003. He attended Bjølsen skole for 10 years, where he was a student council president for 3 years. He began at Hartvig Nissen skole in 2005. He began his film career with the film Pitbullterje in autumn 2005. He is a firm believer that overweight people should be treated the same as everyone else. He has participated in many programmes about being young and overweight. - Wenche Foss
Wenche Foss (born in Christiania, current Oslo, 5 December 1917) is a leading Norwegian actress of stage, screen and television, her career spanning eight decades. Foss survived breast cancer in 1971 - Pamela Jones
Pamela Jones, commonly known as PJ, is the creator and editor of Groklaw, an award-winning website that covers legal news of interest to the free and open-source software community. Jones is a journalist, who previously trained and worked as a paralegal. PJ's articles have appeared in Linux Journal, LWN, LinuxWorld Magazine, Linux Today, and LinuxWorld.com. She also writes a monthly column for the UK print publication Linux User and Developer. - Atul Chitnis
Atul Chitnis (1962-) is an Indian consulting technologist known for his work in the fields of data networks, internet and intranets, Linux and Free and Open Source Software and mobile computing in India. He is also the founder of FOSS.IN (formerly Linux Bangalore), one of Asia's largest FOSS conferences. - Frank Warmerdam
Frank Warmerdam is an independent software developer with a focus on remote sensing, geographic information system, cartography, and development of geospatial data translators. He is best known in the GIS community as the author of the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library or GDAL. He is also a founding member, director and the initial president of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). Frank Warmerdam lives near Eganville, Ontario, Canada. - Martin Varsavsky
Martin Varsavsky is an Argentinian/Spanish telecommunications and new media entrepreneur. Born in Buenos Aires on April 26, 1960, to Carlos Varsavsky and Silvia Waisman, Varsavsky attended primary school at the New Model School and the Colegio Nicolás Avellaneda high school. At the age of 16, he moved with his family to the United States as a refugee, following the forced disappearance of his cousin, David Horacio Varsavsky. - J.T.S. Moore
J.T.S. Moore is American film director and producer. He's known primarily for the Revolution OS film (2001) about FOSS key people. Also directed Shooting Creek in 1995 and Partners in Crime in 1996. Credited in Man of the Century (1999) and Recon (1996) (as firearms master.) - Richard Bannister
Richard Bannister is a programmer of emulation software for the Mac OS X platform. He currently maintains twenty-eight different emulators, including original projects and ports from other platforms. All of Bannister's ports are compatible with Emulator Enhancer, a shareware module created by him to add additional features, such as joystick support and full-screen mode. - Andrey Golub
BSc- Applied Mathematics/ Software Engineering, PhD- Systems Analysis and Design. Who's Who in the World- 2008 (Marquis), . Prof: IT/TLC/Web Project- Product Manager, Sr.Systems/ Business Analyst and Team Leader. Web: Web 2.0 Evangelist and Researcher (Marketing 2.0/ PR 2.0/ Community Manager) with some broad experience in leading Open-Community (and Open-Source) projects.Co-founder, VP and IT/Web Manager of Business Club 2.0 Milan-IN (official LinkedIn Italia supporter Club). - Lukas Foss
BPO Music Director: 1963-71 As a fifteen-year-old prodigy Lukas Foss arrived in America in 1937 where he enrolled at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music. By that time he had already been composing for eight years, with lessons in his native Berlin with his first piano teacher, Julius Herford . After his family fled Nazi Germany in 1933 Foss studied in Paris with Lazare Levy , Noel Gallon and Felix Wolfes , and advanced flute with Louis Moyse . - Michael Tabolsky
Vincent: What happens after that?Lance: I'm kinda curious about that myself. - Marc C Lawrence
American character actor who specialized in underworld types, despite a far greater range. A native of the Bronx, Lawrence participated in plays in school, then attended the City College of New York. In 1930, he was accepted into Eva Le Gallienne's company, where he became friendly with another young actor, one day to be known as John Garfield. The two appeared in a number of plays, both with Le Galliene's company and with the highly-politicized Group Theatre, before Lawrence was given a... - Jamie Foss
Bubbly, busty winner of "The WB's Superstar USA" (2004) an "American Idol: The Search for a Superstar" (2002)-esque talent contest/reality show of unwitting, untalented singers who were told they had star potential. She received a $50,000 recording contract and $100,000 in cash. Originally from Erskine, Minnesota. - Ryan Foss
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