- Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins (May 19, 1795 - December 24, 1873) was a wealthy entrepreneur and philanthropist of nineteenth century Baltimore, now most noted for his philanthropic creation of the institutions that bear his name, such as the Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Johns Hopkins, whose nickname was "Johnsie", was the second of eleven children in his Quaker family, … - Thomas Szasz
Dr. Thomas Stephen Szasz (pronounced /sas/; born April 15, 1920 in Budapest, Hungary) is a psychiatrist and academic. He is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, New York. He is a prominent figure in the antipsychiatry movement, a well-known social critic of the moral and scientific foundations of psychiatry, and of the social control aims of medicine in modern society, as well as of scientism. - E. Fuller Torrey
Edwin Fuller Torrey, M.D. (b.September 6, 1937, Utica, New York), is an American psychiatrist and schizophrenia researcher. He is Associate Director for Laboratory Research at the Stanley Medical Research Institute (SMRI). Torrey is president of the board of the Treatment Advocacy Center (TAC), … - Lefty Grove
Robert Moses "Lefty" Grove (March 6, 1900 - May 22, 1975) was one of the greatest pitchers in Major League Baseball history. Born in Lonaconing, Maryland, Grove was a sandlot star in the Baltimore area during the 1910s. His performance caught the eye of Jack Dunn, the owner of the minor league Baltimore Orioles, who also discovered Babe Ruth. - Gerald Reaven
Gerald M. "Jerry" Reaven is an American endocrinologist and professor emeritus in medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California. A long-term researcher into diabetes, he achieved significant notability with his 1988 Banting Lecture (organised annually by the American Diabetes Association in memory of Frederick Banting). In his lecture, he propounded the theory that central obesity (male-type or apple-shaped obesity), … - Peter Safar
Peter Safar was an Austrian physician of Czech descent, born april 12 1924 in Vienna (Austria), died August 2 2003 in Mt. Lebanon, USA. He is credited with pioneering cardiopulmonary resuscitation. - Stanley Falkow
Stanley Falkow, PhD, is microbiologist and a professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is sometimes referred to as the father of molecular microbial pathogenesis, which is the study of how infectious microbes and host cells interact to cause disease at the molecular level. He formulated molecular Koch's postulates, which have guided the study of the microbial determinants of infectious diseases since the late 1980s. - Philip Leder
Philip Leder (b. November 19, 1934) is an American geneticist. He was born in Washington, D.C. and studied at Harvard University, graduating in 1960. In 1964, he graduated from Harvard Medical School. He is known for his early work with Marshall Nirenberg for working on the genetic code and the Nirenberg and Leder experiment. Since that landmark experiment, he has made many seminal contributions in the fields of molecular genetics, … - David Butler-Jones
Dr. David Butler-Jones is the current (as of September 2004) Chief Public Health Officer of Canada. He is the first person to hold the office. The Chief Public Health Officer is the head of the Public Health Agency of Canada. - Richard Pestell
Richard G. Pestell is an American physician currently employed as Director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, an NCI-designated Cancer Center. Dr. Pestell has authored more than 270 original publications and book chapters and more than 175 published abstracts. His papers have been published in outstanding peer reviewed journals including Cell (journal), Science (journal), Nature Medicine, and EMBO. - Eric Shanower
Eric James Shanower (b. 1963) is an American comics artist and writer. His first major published works were the "Oz" graphic novels, which are "The Enchanted Apples of Oz", "The Secret Island of Oz", "The Ice King of Oz", "The Forgotten Forest of Oz", and "The Blue Witch of Oz". They are collected in a single large volume titled "Adventures in Oz". He has written and illustrated a full-length Oz novel, … - Stefan M. Pulst
Stefan M. Pulst is a neurologist/neurogeneticist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and professor of medicine and neurobiology at UCLA. He is chair of the science committee of the American Academy of Neurology. His research involves ataxia and other genetic conditions that affect the nervous system. Pulst, Stefan M. - Linas Kleiza
Linas Kleiza (pronounced as) (born January 3, 1985 in Kaunas, Lithuanian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Lithuanian professional basketball player in the NBA for the Denver Nuggets. Kleiza, a 6'8", 245 lb (2.03 m, 111 kg) small forward-power forward, graduated from Montrose Christian School, in Rockville, Maryland, in 2003. He played two seasons under coach Stu Vetter and was named the Gatorade High School Player of the Year for the state of Maryland in 2003. - John C. Lilly
John Cunningham Lilly (January 6, 1915 - September 30, 2001) was an American physician, psychoanalyst and writer. He was a pioneer researcher into the nature of consciousness using as his principal tools the isolation tank, dolphin communication and psychedelic drugs, sometimes in combination. He was a prominent member of the Californian counterculture of scientists, mystics and thinkers that arose in the late 1960s and early 70s. - Ajai R. Singh
Ajai R. Singh (also known as Ajai Singh) is an Indian psychiatrist, researcher and editor of the "Mens Sana Monographs", in short "MSM", which is 'a monograph series devoted to the understanding of medicine, mental health, man and their matrix'. It is published by the Mens Sana Research Foundation based in Mumbai, India. "MSM" attempts to give in-depth understanding of psychiatric, biomedical, psychological, … - Molly Ivins
Mary Tyler "Molly" Ivins (August 30 1944 - January 31 2007) was an American newspaper columnist, political commentator, and best-selling author from Austin, Texas. - Alfred Cellier
Alfred Cellier, was an English composer, orchestrator and conductor. In addition to conducting the original productions of several of the most famous Gilbert and Sullivan works, his comic opera, "Dorothy", became one of the longest-running pieces of musical theatre in history. He was born at Hackney, in London, to Arsène Cellier, a professor of languages from France, and his wife Mary Ann. From 1855 to 1860 he was a chorister at the Chapel Royal, St. James', … - Richard D'Oyly Carte
Richard D'Oyly Carte (May 3 1844 - April 3 1901) was an English theatrical impresario during the latter half of the nineteenth century. He is best known for producing the Savoy Operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, founding the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, and building both the Savoy Theatre and the Savoy Hotel. - Ian Stevenson
Ian Pretyman Stevenson, M.D., (born October 31, 1918, in Montreal, Canada, died February 8, 2007, in Charlottesville, Virginia), was a Canadian-American psychiatrist whose research interests included: children who claim to remember previous lives, near-death experiences, apparitions (death-bed visions), the mind-brain problem, and survival of the human personality after death. - Jeff Bradstreet
Jeff Bradstreet, MD, is an American physician whose medical foundation in Melbourne, Florida, The Interntational Child Development Resource Center focuses upon complementary medicine, clinical research, and treatment of autistic spectrum disorders. Bradstreet attributes his son Matthew's autism to vaccination at 15 months of age. Bradstreet has been a vocal opponent of government vaccine campaigns, highlighted by his testimony critical of vaccine policies, … - Solon Borland
Solon Borland (September 21, 1811 - January 1, 1864) was a newspaperman, soldier, diplomat, Democratic United States Senator from the State of Arkansas and a Confederate officer during the American Civil War. Borland was born in Suffolk, Virginia. When he was a youth, his family moved to North Carolina, where he attended preparatory schools. He later studied medicine and opened a practice. In 1843, he moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, … - 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. - Ann Marie Doory
Delegate Ann Marie L. Doory, is an American politician who represents the 43rd legislative district of the Maryland General Assembly in Annapolis Maryland - 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. - H. L. Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956), better known as H. L. Mencken, was a twentieth-century journalist, satirist, social critic, cynic, and freethinker, known as the "Sage of Baltimore." He is often regarded as one of the most influential American writers of the early 20th century. - Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris (born June 15, 1973) is an American actor. He is known for his television roles as the teenage doctor "Doogie Howser, M.D." and the womanizing Barney Stinson in "How I Met Your Mother". - Philip C. Jimeno
Philip C. Jimeno (born February 28, 1947 in Fairmont, West Virginia) is an American politician and was a long-serving member of the Maryland State Legislature as a Democrat. He attended Fairmont State College in his hometown. He was married in 1969, and he and his wife Ramona moved to Brooklyn Park, Maryland in 1970. He worked as a probation and parole officer in Baltimore and was involved in the local improvement association, … - Benjamin Banneker
Benjamin Banneker, originally Banna Ka, or Bannakay (November 9, 1731-October 9, 1806) was a free African American mathematician, astronomer, clockmaker, and publisher. - Richard A. Sossi
Richard Sossi is a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, serving District 36, which covers Carolina, Cecil, Kent, and Queen Anne's Counties. - Jeffrey Ascherman
Jeffrey A. Ascherman, MD is an Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery and the Site Chief for the Division of Plastic Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, where he has been an active member of the full time-faculty since 1995. Dr. Ascherman graduated from Harvard University in 1984 with a B.A. degree in Engineering Sciences, … - David B. Weishampel
Professor David B. Weishampel (born November 16, 1952) is an American palaeontologist in the Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Weishampel received his Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981. His research focuses include dinosaur systematics, European dinosaurs of the Late Cretaceous, jaw mechanics and herbivory, cladistics and heterochrony and the history of evolutionary biology. - Kumar P. Barve
Kumar Barve is an American politician. He is a Delegate representing district 17 of the Maryland House of Delegates in Montgomery County, Maryland, a district of more than 110,000 people. - Carolyn J. Krysiak
Carolyn J. Krysiak is an American politician who represents the 46th legislative district in the Maryland House of Delegates. Delegate Krysiak is also chairman of the House Facilities Committee, being appointed by Speaker Michael E. Busch to that position in 2005. - Joel Fuhrman
Joel Fuhrman is an American family medicine physician and author. He maintains a medical practice in Flemington, New Jersey, and specializes in treating some major illnesses through nutrition and changes in diet. - Rodolfo Valentin
Rodolfo Valentin is a New York City hairdresser, born June 22, 1956 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The hairstyles used by Rodolfo include hair coloring,regenerating healthy hair, a tailored haircut, and the Hair Infusion. - Gaurav Shah
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David Edward Kelley (born April 4, 1956) is a prolific multi-Emmy award winning American writer, executive producer, and creator of the well-known television series "Picket Fences", "Chicago Hope", "The Practice", "Ally McBeal", "Boston Public", and "Boston Legal". He has also written several film scripts. Kelley's shows are renowned for their whimsical, occasionally surreal comedic touches, as well as moments of seriousness. - Geoffrey Lewis
Geoffrey Lewis (born July 31, 1935 in San Diego, California) is an American character actor who has been popular since the early 1970s, often featured in offbeat roles. He is also a member of the musical group Celestial Navigations, with Geoff Levin, known for their storytelling abilities, producing eloquent, unforgettable narratives accompanied by haunting, stirring music. Lewis is the father of ten children, including actress Juliette Lewis. - Brian Stokes Mitchell
Brian Stokes Mitchell (b. 31 October, 1958, Seattle, Washington) is a current Broadway actor. A powerful baritone, he has been one of the central male star figures of the theatre in the last two decades. His Broadway credits include "Mail" (1988), an all-black revival of George Gershwin's "Oh, Kay!" (1990), "Jelly's Last Jam" (1992) based on the works of jazz artist Jelly Roll Morton, John Kander and Fred Ebb's "Kiss of the Spider Woman" (1993), … - Robert David Hall
Robert David Hall (born November 9, 1947) is an American actor, best known for his role as coroner Dr. Albert Robbins M.D. on the television show "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation". Born in East Orange, New Jersey, Hall attended Tustin (CA) High School and went on to college at UCLA, graduating in 1971 with a degree in English Literature. Mr. Hall is an accomplished guitarist and former professional musician.
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