- Michael Kitchen
Michael Kitchen (born October 31, 1948 in Leicester) is an English actor. Since 2002, he has been the star of the ITV television detective series "Foyle's War". Since the early 1970s, Kitchen has been a fixture of UK television. His early appearances include roles in "Play for Today" ("Hell's Angels" by David Agnew, 1971), "Thriller" and "Beasts". - Jake Peavy
Jacob "Jake" Edward Peavy, (born May 31, 1981, in Mobile, Alabama, USA) is a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who plays for the San Diego Padres. He bats and throws right handed. Peavy stands 6'1" tall (1.85 m) and weighs 182 pounds (82.72 kg). - Alexander Calder
Alexander Calder (July 22 1898 - November 11 1976), also known as Sandy Calder, was an American sculptor and artist most famous for inventing the mobile. In addition to mobile and stabile sculpture, Alexander Calder also created paintings, lithographs, toys and tapestry and designed carpets. - David Bell
David Michael Bell (born September 14, 1972 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a Major League Baseball third baseman who is presently a free agent. A member of one of the major leagues' three-generation families, he is the brother of Mike Bell, the son of Buddy Bell, and the grandson of Gus Bell. On April 15, 1998, he hit the first inside-the-park home run in Jacobs Field history, and the first for the Indians since 1989. As a junior at Moeller High School in Cincinnati, … - Glen Day
Glen Day (born November 16, 1965) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour. Day was born in Mobile, Alabama and raised in Poplarville, Mississippi. He turned pro in 1988. He has won once on the PGA Tour. He also is a golf course architect, forming Day-Blalock Golf Course Design with Alan Blalock in 1999. He has featured in the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings. - Jeff Sessions
Jefferson Beauregard "Jeff" Sessions III (born December 24, 1946) is the junior United States Senator from Alabama. He is a member of the Republican Party. - Julian Bleecker
Julian Bleecker is a designer, technologist and researcher at the Design Strategic Projects studio at Nokia Design in Los Angeles and the Near Future Laboratory where he investigates emerging social practices around new networked interaction rituals. He focuses on hands-on prototyping as a way to make new things. He lectures and leads workshops on the intersections of art, design, technology and the near-future possibilities for new social-technical interaction rituals. - Sam Jones
Samuel L. Jones is serving his first term as Mayor of his hometown, Mobile, Alabama. He ran on a platform of safety, efficient government, historic preservation and bringing employers to the city. - Richard Spencer
Richard Spencer (October 29, 1796 - September 3, 1868) was an American politician who represented the seventh congressional district of the state of Maryland from 1829 to 1831. Richard Spencer was born at "Spencer Hall" in Talbot County, Maryland and attended the common schools. He studied law in Baltimore and was admitted to the Talbot County bar in 1819. He moved to his farm, "Solitude", near St. Michaels, … - Steve Hoffman
Steve Hoffman is the COO & co-founder of Zannel, Inc., a venture-funded mobile entertainment startup. Hoffman is also a founding member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Interactive Media Group and sits on the Board of Governors for the Producers Guild New Media Council. Hoffman is also a co-founder of the San Francisco Chapter of the Producers Guild of America. Hoffman was the Chairman & CEO of Spiderdance, … - Willie Anderson
Willie Aaron Anderson (born July 11, 1975 in Mobile, Alabama) is an NFL offensive tackle who currently plays for the Cincinnati Bengals. After playing collegiately at Auburn University, Anderson was selected in the first round (10th overall) of the 1996 NFL Draft. He is currently in the midst of an 96-game consecutive start streak, the longest by any Bengal. He was selected to represent the AFC in the 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 Pro Bowls, … - Jack Edwards
William Jackson (Jack) Edwards (born September 20, 1928) is a former U.S. Republican politician, who represented Alabama in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1965 until 1985. Edwards was first elected to Congress in 1964, one of five Republicans elected to the House from Alabama amid Barry Goldwater's sweep of the state in that year's presidential election. He represented the state's 1st District, based in Mobile. - Steve Wood
Steve Wood (born 1952) is an American technology-industry programmer, manager, and investor best known as an early Microsoft employee. Wood graduated with a BS from Case Western Reserve University and an MSEE from Stanford. He was Employee No. 6 at Microsoft, but in 1980 one of the first original employees to leave, after his wife Marla Wood, then a bookkeeper, organized the non-exempt employees and filed an overtime pay dispute (later settled) against the company. - Frank Howard
Frank J. Howard (March 25, 1909 - January 26, 1996) was an American college football player and coach. He played college football for Alabama and was a teammate of legendary coach Bear Bryant. After a career-ending injury, Howard joined the staff at Clemson College and became head coach in 1939. Howard would coach the Clemson Tigers for 30 years, amassing the 15th most wins of any college football coach. He led Clemson to ten bowl games, an undefeated season in 1949, … - Jo Bonner
Josiah Robins (Jo) Bonner, Jr. (b. November 19 1959), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing - Bernie Kosar
Bernard Joseph Kosar, Jr. (born November 25, 1963 in Youngstown, Ohio) is a former American football quarterback who played for the Cleveland Browns from 1985 to 1993 and then finished his career with stints with the Dallas Cowboys and Miami Dolphins. - Michel Butor
Michel Butor (b. 14 September, 1926) is a French post-World War II writer. - Billy Bang
Billy Bang (b. William Vincent Walker, Mobile, Alabama, September 20, 1947), is an American free jazz violinist and composer. - R. Madhavan
R. Madhavan, also called "Maddy", is a prominent regional Indian film actor, a game show host, a mobile game character, and an active PETA campaigner. He started to act in Hindi television serials and appear in advertisements and commercials before he started his film acting career. He currently acts in regional industries across India with the Tamil film industry being his main focus. Madhavan has also acted in Hindi films, English films, … - Richard Tyson
Richard Martin Tyson (February 13, 1961 in Mobile, Alabama, USA), is an American actor. His most prominent role was as the villain Cullen Crisp, Sr. in Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Kindergarten Cop". He also starred as high school bully Buddy Revell in the 1987 comedy "Three O'Clock High". Richard can also be seen in the Farrelly Brothers movies, "Kingpin", "Me, Myself & Irene" and "There's Something About Mary". - Michelle Richmond
Michelle Richmond is a fiction writer and essayist. Richmond's first book, the story collection The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress, won the Associated Writing Programs Award for Short Fiction in 2000 and was published by University of Massachusetts Press in 2001. Her first novel, "Dream of the Blue Room", was published by MacAdam/Cage in 2003. Her second novel, The Year of Fog, published by Delacorte in 2007, was a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller. - Julian Horn-Smith
Sir Julian Horn-Smith was Deputy Chief Executive of Vodafone Group Plc until July 2006. From September 2006 to April 2007 he was Chairman of The Sage Group. Julian joined Vodafone in 1984 as a Marketing Executive in the UK and has held a number of senior posts including Chief Operating Officer. During his career with the company, he was closely involved in many of Vodafone's major transactions, … - Anthony Watson
Anthony Watson (born Anthony Reynard Watson, in Mobile, Alabama) is an American soul singer, who toured and recorded (off and on) with The Chi-Lites in the late 1980s, and the 1990s. - Kenneth Martin
Kenneth Martin (born 13 April 1905 in Sheffield - died 1984) was an English painter and sculptor who along with his wife Mary Martin and Victor Pasmore was a leading figure in the revival of Constructivism in Britain and America in the 1940s. After part time study at Sheffield School of Art Martin won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in 1929 -32 where he met Mary Balmford and the pair married. - Robert McCune
Robert McCune (born March 9, 1979 in Mobile, Alabama) is an American football linebacker who currently plays for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Washington Redskins in the fifth round (154th overall) of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played collegiately at Louisville. - Eliot Morris
Eliot Morris grew up one of six kids in his parent’s house in Mobile, Alabama. A typical southern upbringing with typical boyhood interest, until the day his father brought home a CD player and a Motown compilation. He went to Auburn University in 1999 where he graduated with a degree in Finance. It was at Auburn University when Eliot began to play the occasional gig or writers night that he really came to believe that he was writing some special songs. - Ray Sawyer
Ray Sawyer (born February 1, 1937) is a singer from Chickasaw, Alabama, United States, who was one of the lead vocalists for the American 1970s rock band, Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show through most of their career. His first hit single was "Rockin' Satellite", released in 1960 on the Sandy Records record label, in Mobile, Alabama. - Clarence Hill
Clarence Edward Hill (December 2, 1957- September 20, 2006) was a convicted murderer executed by the state of Florida. A native of Mobile, Alabama, Hill was convicted of the October 19, 1982 murder of Pensacola, Florida police officer Stephen Taylor and the wounding of Taylor's partner, Larry Bailly, when the two officers responded to a bank alarm. Hill was sentenced to death by lethal injection. - Derrick Hamilton
Derrick Lamont Hamilton (born 20 November 1966 in Mobile, Alabama, USA) is a former professional basketball player. A 6'7" small forward, Hamilton was a college hoops star at the University of Southern Mississippi in the late 1980s. He was drafted by the New Jersey Nets with the 2nd pick in the 3rd round (52nd overall) of the 1988 NBA Draft, but was not signed to a contract. Despite failing to enter the NBA, Hamilton had a successful and long career abroad. - Gordon Persons
Seth Gordon Persons (February 5, 1902-May 29, 1965) was an American Democratic politician who was the Governor of Alabama from 1951 to 1955. He was born and died in Montgomery, Alabama. The Dauphin Island Bridge south of Mobile is formally named for him. - Philip Phillips
Philip Phillips (December 17, 1807 - January 14, 1884) was an American lawyer and politician from Cheraw, South Carolina, Mobile, Alabama, and Washington, DC. He was a member of the Democratic Party who served as the U.S. Representative from Alabama. Subsequently he was a prominent lawyer in Washington, DC, much involved in the political events surrounding the American Civil War. - Fayard Nicholas
Fayard Antonio Nicholas was an American dancer, and the elder brother of the tap dancing pair The Nicholas Brothers. The two greatest tap dancers that ever lived-certainly the most beloved dance team in the history of entertainment were Fayard (1914-2006) and Harold (1921-2000), the famous Nicholas Brothers. Born in Mobile, Alabama, the Nicholas Brothers grew up in Philadelphia, the sons of musicians who played in their own band at the old Standard Theater, … - Lawrence Samuels
Lawrence 'Law Dogg' Samuels (Born May 1, 1970 in Mobile, Alabama) is a 6' 2" 210 pound Arena Football League wide receiver/linebacker with the Tampa Bay Storm. He Is the Offensive Coordinator and receivers coach for the Wharton Wildcats. Samuels played his college football at Livingston in Alabama, not to be confused with Livingston College, one of the schools that comprises Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey. - Jim Woodcock
Professor Jim C. P. Woodcock FRSA FBCS is a British computer scientist. Woocock gained his PhD from the University of Liverpool. Until 2001 he was Professor of Software Engineering at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory, where he was also a Fellow of Kellogg College. He then joined the University of Kent and is now based at the University of York. His research interests include: strong software engineering, Grand Challenge in dependable systems evolution, … - Jamie Draven
Jamie Draven (sometimes credited as Jaime Draven, birth name Jamie Donnelly) is a British actor born on 14 May, 1979, in Wythenshawe, Manchester. Notable appearances include the 2000 film "Billy Elliot" where he appeared as Billy's elder brother, Tony. Draven has also appeared in "Everybody Loves Sunshine" (1999), "Butterfly Collectors" (1999), "Messiah" (2001), "Ultimate Force" (2002-03), … - Neil Fitzmaurice
Neil Fitzmaurice (born in Liverpool, England) is a British writer and actor best-known for his role as Ray-Von in "Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights", which he also co-wrote. Fitzmaurice's writing projects include "That Peter Kay Thing", for which he received a coveted British Comedy Award, and the critically acclaimed "Phoenix Nights". As an actor, Fitzmaurice has appeared in his own screenplay, "Going off Big Time", … - Martin John Callanan
Martin John Callanan, (born 1982, Birmingham) is an English artist and academic who works with digital media, audio, installation, and video. He obtained degrees from both The Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD) and University College London. Callanan is a Honorary Research Fellow to Susan Alexis Collins, (Head of Electronic Media, and Head of Undergraduate Fine Art Media, for the Slade School of Art, University College London). - Idan Gafni
Idan Gafni is an award winning mobile expert and entrepreneur. Using a creativity technique he created named “Object Pairing”, Idan harnesses innovation to create mobile value added services. Services are based on mobile interaction, contextual awareness, user-generated content, and dynamic content, using the advantages of technologies such as SMS, MMS, IVVR, and WEB technologies. In the past, Idan served as the innovation manager of Orange Israel, part of the Hutchison 3 telecom group. - Michael Portier
Bishop Michael Portier, born Sep 7, 1795, in Montbrison, France, was a Roman Catholic bishop and the first Bishop of Mobile. He migrated to the United States in 1817. After completing his studies at St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, Maryland, he was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of St. Louis, by Bishop Louis William Valentine Dubourg, on May 16, 1818. Eight years later, on August 26, 1825, he was consecrated titular Bishop of Oleno by Bishop Joseph Rosati, … - Anand Chandrasekaran
Anand Chandrasekaran - Aeroprise Evangelist, Co-Founder Since co-founding Aeroprise, Anand has worked with enterprise customers and partners to define product functionality, launch Aeroprise products, implement go-to market strategies, lead market awareness efforts and define inside sales strategies.
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