- Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee (November 27, 1940 - July 20, 1973) was a martial artist, philosopher, instructor, and martial arts actor widely regarded as the most influential martial artist of the 20th century. Born in San Francisco and raised in Hong Kong, Lee is best remembered for the presentation of Chinese martial arts to the non-Chinese world. - Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson (born William Hugh Nelson, April 30, 1933) is an American entertainer and songwriter, born and raised in Abbott, Texas. He reached his greatest fame during the so-called "outlaw country" movement of the 1970s. - John Moore
John S. Moore is an American saxophonist and saxophone teacher who specializes in European and American classical music. - Jeff Cooper
John Dean "Jeff" Cooper (10 May 1920 - 25 September 2006) was recognized as the father of what is commonly known as "the Modern Technique" of handgun shooting, and was considered by many to be one of the 20th century's foremost international experts on the use and history of small arms. Born John Dean Cooper, but known to his friends as "Jeff", Cooper was a Marine Lt. Colonel who served in both World War II and the Korean War. - Mantak Chia
Mantak Chia is an author, teacher and self-described healer. He is known for his books and teachings on Taoism, qigong and Taoist sexuality. Mantak Chia is a controversial figure in Taoism, alternately praised for public disclosure of long-held secrets and condemned for idiosyncrasies such as giving undue weight to sexual practices and lore. His wife Maneewan Chia is the co-author of many of his books. - Marshall Hall
Marshall Hall, Jr. (17 September 1910, St Louis, Missouri - 4 July 1990, London) was an American mathematician who made contributions to group theory and combinatorics. He studied mathematics at Yale, graduating in 1932. He studied further at Cambridge University, returning to Yale to take his Ph.D. in 1936 under the supervision of Oystein Ore. He worked in Naval Intelligence during World War II, and in 1946 took a position at Ohio State University. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 's outstanding play on the court thrust him into the NBA Hall of Fame in 1995. After 20 seasons, Kareem is the only player in NBA History to win the MVP award six times and is the NBA's all-time regular season scoring leader. As president of Kareem Productions, he now spends time on his second passion, film making. - Elmore Leonard
Elmore John Leonard Jr. (born October 11, 1925, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a popular American novelist and screenwriter. - Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet cosmonaut. On 12 April 1961, he became the first man in space and the first to orbit the Earth. He also received many medals from his home country for his pioneering tour in space. - Bob Knight
Robert Montgomery (Bob or Bobby) Knight (born October 25, 1940, in Massillon, Ohio, USA), also known as The General, is the head men's basketball coach at Texas Tech. He was previously head coach at Indiana and at Army. Knight has won more NCAA Division I men's basketball games than any other head coach. As of the 2007 NCAA tournament (3/27/07), that number stood at 890. Knight has won three NCAA championships (1976, 1981, 1987), … - Bernie Dodge
Bernie Dodge (born Bernard Joseph Dodge September 5, 1948) is the creator of the "WebQuest", an information technology education tool, and QuestGarden, an online authoring tool and community of practice for WebQuest development. He is a Professor of Educational Technology at San Diego State University. - Jim Evans
James Bremond Evans (born November 5 1946 in Longview, Texas) is a former umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the American League from 1971 to 1999. He now operates one of baseball's two major umpiring schools. He wore uniform number 3 starting in 1980 when the AL adopted uniform numbers. Evans began umpiring Little League games at age 14, where his playing experience as a catcher helped in judging balls and strikes. - Remy Presas
Remy Amador Presas was the founder of Modern Arnis, perhaps the most popular Filipino martial art in the world. Born in the Philippines, he moved to the United States in the 1970s. There he taught his art principally via seminars and camps. He also authored several books and videos/DVDs concerning his art. He was born on December 19, 1936, in the town of Hinigaran, Negros Occidental, Philippines, the son of Jose B. Presas, a businessman, and the former Lucia Amador. - Benjamin Rush
Dr. Benjamin Rush (December 24 1745 - April 19 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States. Rush lived in the state of Pennsylvania and was a physician, writer, educator, and humanitarian, as well as the founder of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Rush was also a signer of the Declaration of Independence and attended the Continental Congress. Later in life, he became a professor of medical theory and clinical practice at the University of Pennsylvania. - Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon (April 27, 1737 - January 16, 1794) was an English historian and Member of Parliament. His most important work, "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire", was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788. "The History" is known principally for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its open denigration of organized religion. - John Rose
John Rose is an American concert organist who has performed in 45 of the United States and has made a number of foreign concert tours to Australia, Canada, Mexico, Brazil and various European countries. He is College Organist at Trinity College in Connecticut, a post he has held since 1977. In the United States he has performed at halls such as the Kennedy Center in Washington, Orchestra Hall in Chicago, Davies Hall in San Francisco, the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City, - Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"' Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born Lawrence Ferling"' on March 24, 1919) is an American poet. He is also the co-owner of the City Lights Bookstore and publishing house; the store and publishing company that published early literary works of the Beat generation, and helped to launch the careers of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. - R. C. Sproul
Robert Charles Sproul, (born 1939 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American Calvinist theologian and pastor. He is the founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries (named after the Ligonier Valley just outside of Pittsburgh, where the ministry started as a study center for college and seminary students) and can be heard daily on the "Renewing Your Mind" radio broadcast in the United States and throughout 60 countries. - Jai Uttal
Jai Uttal is an American musician and singer-songwriter born in New York City. Often performing with his "Pagan Love Orchestra," Jai's music is influenced by his R&B roots of the 1960s and 70's and by traditional Indian music which he first became familiar with at age 19. When he was 19, Jai moved to California to become a student of Khansahib for traditional voice training and to learn the sarod, a 25-stringed Indian instrument. - Barbara McClintock
Barbara McClintock was a pioneering American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a leader in the development of maize cytogenetics. The field remained the focus of her research for the rest of her career. From the late 1920s, McClintock studied chromosomes and how they change during reproduction in maize. - Oleg Taktarov
Oleg Taktarov (June 25, 1968) is a Russian martial artist. He is a practitioner of Sambo and Judo and has competed in mixed martial arts in the UFC and PRIDE. Taktarov last fought a professional MMA match in 1998. Taktarov's MMA record from 1995 to 1998 was 11-5-2. He never tapped or was submitted in a MMA match. Taktarov is remembered for being calm during fights and for using a variety of rarely seen, acrobatic take-down moves. - George B. McClellan
George Brinton McClellan (December 3 1826 - October 29 1885) was a major general during the American Civil War. He organized the famous Army of the Potomac and served briefly (November 1861 to March 1862) as the general-in-chief of the Union Army. Early in the war, McClellan played an important role in raising a well-trained and organized army for the Union. However, although McClellan was meticulous in his planning and preparations, … - Kazuo Chiba
Kazuo Chiba (born Feb 5,1940,Tokyo) is an aikido teacher from Japan who has spent a considerable part of his teaching career in the United States. He is an 8th dan from the aikido organisation Aikikai, and the founder of the dojo (aikido club) "San Diego Aikikai" in San Diego where he relocated to in 1981. He is also the founder of an international aikido federation known as Birankai. - Joan Wulff
Joan Wulff is a significant figure in the fly fishing industry in the United States. Wife of the late Lee Wulff, pioneer of the Wulff style of dry fly, Joan has continued her husband's legacy with her casting instruction and fly line design. She continues to champion the world class series of "Wulff" fly patterns that were developed by Joans husband Lee Wulff in the 1930’s. Wulff patterns were the first flies to use hair for fly wings and tails.Lee beefed up the body, … - Troy Stetina
Troy Stetina (born 16 November 1963) is a guitar instructor, clinician, and artist with approximately 35 guitar instruction books, CDs, and videos, as well as three solo CDs. Previously Director of Rock Guitar Studies at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music and writer for the GuitarOne magazine, Troy now teaches independently. While growing up, Troy developed an interest in late 1970s hard rock titans such as Rush, Led Zeppelin and KISS, … - Donn F. Draeger
Donald "Donn" Frederick Draeger (April 15 1922 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin - October 20 1982 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) was an expert practitioner of Asian martial arts and author of related books, having lived and trained in Asia for decades. Draeger held the rank of Captain during peace time and Major during war time in the United States Marine Corps. His tombstone reflects his peace time rank of Captain. He spent several decades of his life in the Pacific area and Japan, … - George Dewey
George Dewey (December 26, 1837 - January 16, 1917) was an admiral of the United States Navy, best known for his victory (without the loss of a single life of his own forces due to combat; one man died of a heart attack) at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War. He was also the only person in the history of the United States to have attained the rank of Admiral of the Navy, the most senior rank in the United States Navy. - Dave Pearce
Dave Pearce is a Canadian comedic and dramatic actor and writer. Dave Pearce is a member of three time Canadian Comedy Award winning improv troupe Slap Happy. His acting credits include Undercover Brother, Looking for Angelina (premiering at the 2005 Montreal Film Festival), Supertown Challenge, and Hairy Patter and the Improvisers Stone. He is also one half of 2002 Canadian Comedy Award nominated musical/sketch comedy duo, The Cowards. - Harold Gould
Harold V. Goldstein (best known stage name Harold Gould) (born December 10, 1923) is a five-time Emmy Award-nominated American actor best known for playing Martin Morganstern in the 1970s sitcom "Rhoda", a role he reprised from his earlier recurring role in "The Mary Tyler Moore Show". Gould has acted in film and television for nearly 50 years, appearing in more than 300 television shows, 20 major motion pictures, and over 100 stage plays. - Ray Henault
Raymond (Ray) Roland Joseph Henault, CMM, CD, BA (born Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1949) was the Chief of the Defence Staff of Canada from June 28, 2001. On November 7, 2004, Henault was voted to become the next chairman of NATO's military committee. General Henault enrolled in the Canadian Forces in 1968. On completion of pilot training at CFB Borden, Ontario, and CFB Gimli, Manitoba, General Henault was transferred to CFB Bagotville, Québec, … - Helen Vendler
Helen Hennessy Vendler (b. 1933) is a leading American critic of poetry. - Eero Saarinen
Eero Saarinen (August 20, 1910, in Kirkkonummi, Finland – September 1, 1961, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States) was a Finnish American architect and product designer of the 20th century famous for varying his style according to the demands of the project: simple, sweeping, arching structural curves or machine-like rationalism. - Molly Holzschlag
Molly Holzschlag Former Group Lead and Member Emerita Molly E. Holzschlag is a well-known Web standards advocate, instructor, and author. Molly is an invited expert to the Internationalization GEO and HTML working groups at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and is the former Group Lead and member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP). Among her thirty-plus books is the recent The Zen of CSS Design, co-authored with Dave Shea. - Raymond Moody
Raymond Moody (born June 30 1944) is a parapsychologist. He is most famous as an author of books about life after death and near-death experiences, (a term which he coined in 1975). His best selling title is "Life After Life". Moody studied philosophy at the University of Virginia where he obtained a B.A. (1966), a M.A. (1967) and a Ph.D (1969) in the subject. He also obtained a Ph.D in psychology from West Georgia College, … - Martin Davis
Martin Davis , (born 1928, New York City) is an American mathematician, known for his work on Hilbert's tenth problem. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1950 and his adviser was Alonzo Church . He is Professor Emeritus at New York University. He is the co-inventor of the Davis-Putnam and the DPLL algorithms. He is a co-author, with Ron Sigal and Elaine J. Weyuker , of "Computability, Complexity, and Languages, - Helen Caldicott
The world's leading spokesperson for the antinuclear movement, Dr. Helen Caldicott is the founder of the Nobel Prize winning Physicians for Social Responsibility, and herself a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. Both the Smithsonian Institute and Ladies Home Journal named her one of the most Influential Women of the Twentieth Century, and she has honorary degrees from nineteen universities. - Alexander Meiklejohn
Alexander Meiklejohn (February 1, 1872-December 17, 1964) was a philosopher, university administrator, and free-speech advocate. He served as dean of Brown University and president of Amherst College. Meiklejohn was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, England of Scottish descent, being the youngest of eight sons. When he was eight, the family moved to the United States, settling in Rhode Island. Family members pooled their money to send him to school. - Andy McNab
The secretive and dangerous work of the Special Air Service (SAS) has been brought to the attention of a wider public by bestselling author Andy McNab . He was the most highly decorated serving soldier in the British Army when he left in 1993. He now lives on a farm in Middlesex with his daughter and wife, Jenny - Ben Saunders
Ben Saunders is an adventurer, endurance athlete, and motivational speaker. He is best known for solo skiing to the North Pole in 2004, when he became the fourth in history and the youngest by ten years to reach the North Pole alone. He made three separate attempts to reach the North Pole between the ages of 23 and 26, skiing over 1200 miles (2000 kilometers) in the Arctic. - Dawn Prince-Hughes
Dawn Prince-Hughes is a professional writer, and has published seven books, ranging in focus from gorillas, to autism, to the history of the American "freak" show. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Western Washington University and lives with her partner, Tara, and son Teryk, in Bellingham Washington. Her current interests include animal assisted therapy (she has a wonderful horse of her own) and the commonalities of human and animal slavery.
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