- Gary Sheffield
Gary Antonian Sheffield (born November 18, 1968 in Tampa, Florida) is a Major League Baseball designated hitter and outfielder for the Detroit Tigers. Sheffield has primarily played right field, though he has also played left field, third base, shortstop, and a handful of games at first base. He previously played for the Milwaukee Brewers, San Diego Padres, Florida Marlins, Los Angeles Dodgers, Atlanta Braves, and New York Yankees. - Brian Cashman
Brian Cashman is the Senior Vice-President and General Manager of the New York Yankees. He is the single winningest General Manager in Major League Baseball history. He is a native of Lexington, Kentucky, where he attended Lexington Catholic High School before moving to the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. He graduated from Georgetown Preparatory School in 1985 and The Catholic University of America in 1989. He started with the Yankees organization as an intern, … - Henry B. Plant
Henry Bradley Plant (October 27, 1819 - June 23, 1899), was involved with many transportation projects, mostly railroads, in Florida. Eventually he owned the Plant System of railroads which became part of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. Plant City, located near Tampa, was named after him. - Tony La Russa
Anthony La Russa, Jr. (born October 4 1944, in Tampa, Florida) is a manager in Major League Baseball, currently with the St. Louis Cardinals. In 2004 he became the sixth manager in history to win pennants with both American and National League teams; in 2006 he became the first manager ever to win multiple pennants in both leagues and became one of only two managers to win the World Series in both leagues. - Luis Gonzalez
Luis Emilio Gonzalez (born September 3, 1967), nicknamed "Gonzo", is an American baseball player who plays left field for the Los Angeles Dodgers. A Cuban-American, Gonzalez spent his best years with the Arizona Diamondbacks and was one of the most popular players in that organization's history. He is a native of Tampa, Florida, but he and his family (which includes wife Christine and triplets Megan, Jacob and Alyssa) are residents of Scottsdale, Arizona. - Hank Earl Carr
Hank Earl Carr (died May 19, 1998) was a convicted criminal who on May 19, 1998 escaped from his handcuffs and killed two Tampa detectives and a Florida state police officer. Carr then barricaded himself in a convenience store with a hostage before committing suicide. The murders of the law-enforcement personnel prompted national controversy on the proper way to handcuff a suspected criminal, … - Jason Michaels
Jason Drew "J-Mike" Michaels (born May 4, 1976 in Tampa, Florida) is an outfielder for the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball. He is a 1994 graduate of Jesuit High School of Tampa and received an Associate of Arts (AA) degree from Okaloosa-Walton Community College in 1996. He went on to star in baseball at the University of Miami in 1997 and 1998 and signed with the Philadelphia Phillies after they selected him in the fourth round of the June 1998 amateur draft. - Carl Everett
Carl Edward Everett III (born June 3, 1971 in Tampa, Florida) is a former All-star Major League Baseball outfielder. A switch hitter, he played with the Chicago White Sox on their 2005 World Series winning team. He was a member of the Seattle Mariners until the Mariners designated him for assignment on July 26, 2006. He threw right-handed and played all outfield positions, and was often the designated hitter. - Jim Davis
James Oscar "Jim" Davis III (born October 11, 1957) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Florida. He is a Democrat and served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1997 to 2007, representing Florida's 11th district. He was the Democratic nominee for governor of Florida in the 2006 election. He was defeated by Republican candidate Charlie Crist. - Kevin Cash
Kevin Forrest Cash (born on December 6, 1977 in Tampa, Florida) is a major league catcher who plays for the Boston Red Sox. Cash played a total of 101 games from 2002 to 2004 with the Toronto Blue Jays, and he joined the Devil Rays in 2005. Cash played college baseball for the Florida State University Seminoles under head coach Mike Martin. He is a career .173 hitter, and he bats and throws right-handed. - Chris Ray
Christopher T. Ray (born January 12 1982 in Tampa, Florida, United States) is a current Major League relief pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles. Ray graduated from Hillsborough High School in Tampa, Florida, and was drafted in the third round of the 2003 MLB amateur draft out of The College of William and Mary. He spent the 2003 and 2004 seasons in the Orioles minor league system before being called up in June of 2005. He bats and throws right-handed and wears #37. - John Wilson
John Wilson (born 1941) is a veteran television news anchor in the Tampa-St. Petersburg (Florida) area. He joined WTSP-TV in 1981 and was promoted to weeknight co-anchor in 1982, leading that station to a competitive second place in the market. In November 1992, he announced his intentions to leave for first place rival WTVT, which created a stir in the Bay Area. He officially left WTSP in January 1993 and joined WTVT in September 1993. - Bubba The Love Sponge
Bubba the Love Sponge Clem (born Todd Clem in Warsaw, Indiana on April 23, 1966) is a Tampa, Florida radio talk show host who has had a colorful past. His radio show can be heard five days (Monday-Friday) a week between 3PM and 7PM (EST) on Howard 101, a channel on Sirius Satellite Radio. Replays of the show can be heard between 1-5AM (EST) also on Howard 101. - Chase Wright
Sebern Chase Wright (born February 8, 1983, in Wichita Falls, Texas) is an American baseball player with the New York Yankees. He was selected by the Yankees in the third Round (95th overall) of the 2001 amateur entry draft. He bats and throws left-handed. He throws a low 90s 4-seam fastball, a slider, a curveball, and a changeup which is easily his best pitch. In 2006, he was 12-3 for Class A Tampa, with a 1.88 ERA in 119.2 innings. - Kathy Castor
Kathy Castor (born August 20, 1966 in Miami, Florida) is an American politician. She is the Democratic congresswoman for. This district covers most of the city of Tampa, most of the southern section of the city of St. Petersburg, a small portion of unincorporated Hillsborough County, a small section of the city of Temple Terrace and a small section of Manatee County. A moderate Democrat with a long history of promoting ethics in government, a healthy and clean environment, … - Steve Wilson
Steve Wilson is Chief Investigative Reporter for WXYZ-TV in Detroit, Michigan. During the early 1990s, he was a former reporter for the syndicated news program "Inside Edition". Wilson came to national prominence in 1998, when, together with his wife and reporting partner Jane Akre, he filed suit against Tampa, Florida Fox television station WTVT, his former employer. After spending some time away from the broadcast media, Wilson joined WXYZ-TV in Detroit, Michigan. - Jessica Sierra
Jessica Ann Sierra (born November 11, 1985 in Tampa, Florida) is an American singer and was the tenth-place finalist on the fourth season of "American Idol". She was the third finalist eliminated, on March 30 2005. - Chad Reed
Chad Reed is an Australian Supercross champion, winning the U.S. AMA 250 Supercross title in 2004.He was coached by Alex Cooper (15, NSW). He had also won the Australian Supercross twice. Born in 1982, in Kurri Kurri, Australia, Chad is married and currently resides in Tampa, Florida. After winning the Australian Supercross Championship in 2000, Reed went to Europe in 2001 to ride for Jan DeGroot's factory Kawasaki team. - Brittany Snow
Brittany Anne Snow (born March 9, 1986 in Tampa, Florida) is an American television and film actress. Snow began modeling at the age of three in a print ad for Burdines. She is a 2004 graduate of Gaither High School in Tampa, Florida. - Derek Bell
Derek Nathaniel Bell (born December 11, 1968 in Tampa, Florida) is a former Major League Baseball player. Primarily a right fielder and center fielder, Bell batted from the right side and threw with his right hand. He is 6'2" tall, and during his playing career, he weighed 215 pounds. - Bobby Boswell
Bobby Boswell (born March 15, 1983 in Austin, Texas) is an American soccer defender, who currently plays for D.C. United of Major League Soccer. Boswell grew up in Tampa, Florida and played college soccer at Florida International University but was not drafted by an MLS club in either the 2005 MLS SuperDraft or the Supplemental Draft. - Ronda Storms
Ronda Storms (born Ronda Rehnell Newcomb on September 5, 1965) is an American politician from the Republican Party, and is Florida State Senator for District 10. Storms had an eight-year tenure on the Hillsborough County Commission (1998-2006), for which she is well known, and pushed a number of controversial issues. These issues included a fight against establishing the proposed Florida A&M University School of Law in Tampa, … - J.R. Reed
Hebert Lee (J.R.) Reed (born February 11, 1982) is a National Football League defensive safety for the Atlanta Falcons. He was selected by the Philadelphia Eagles in the fourth round in the 2004 NFL Draft from the University of South Florida. Reed had an excellent rookie season in 2004 as a kick returner and was expected to get a full season at that position in 2005. - Glenn Martinez
Glenn Martinez (born November 30, 1981 in Tampa, Florida) is an American football player who is currently a member of the Denver Broncos. Martinez is of Puerto Rican descent. - Mark Williams
Mark Williams is a conservative opinion journalist who often winds up far more libertarian. He is based in Sacramento, California. Williams is a regular contributor to Fox News Channel, MSNBC and Court TV and writes a newspaper column for the new Sacramento Union newspaper. Additionally he fills in for radio talk hosts on a number of mostly major market radio outlets such as the Schnitt Show from Tampa, Florida's WFLA, … - Nick Bollettieri
Nicholas James Bollettieri (b. July 31, 1931 in Pelham, New York) is an American tennis coach who is credited with developing many world-class champions, including Andre Agassi, Jim Courier, Monica Seles, and Mary Pierce. Recently, he has worked with 2006 US Open champion Maria Sharapova, Jelena Janković, and Nicole Vaidišová. He also acted briefly as Boris Becker's coach. Nick Bollettieri graduated in 1953 from Spring Hill College (Mobile, … - Tony Jannus
Antony Habersack Jannus, more familiarly known as Tony Jannus (1889-1916), was an early American pilot who piloted the first flight of the St Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line on January 1, 1914. This was the first scheduled commercial airline flight in the United States, and the first such flight anywhere in the world to use a heavier-than-air aircraft. Born in Washington, D.C., he did his flight training at the College Park Airport in nearby Maryland in 1910. - John H Sykes
John H. Sykes is a prominent Tampa Bay area business man and founder of Sykes Enterprises Incorporated (NASDAQ listing SYKE). Mr. Sykes was born in Charlotte, North Carolina and attended High Point University and Queens University of Charlotte, as well as Rollins College. He currently serves a Chairman Emeritus of Sykes Inc. and remains active in the Tampa Business community. - Ed Rollins
Ed Rollins (born March 19, 1943) is a Republican campaign consultant and advisor who has worked on a number of high profile political campaigns in the United States. Edward Rollins was born in Boston, Massachusetts where he was raised in a Democratic household. His family later moved to California where Rollins attended California State University, Chico. Rollins later served in a number of Republican staff positions in the California State Assembly. - Todd Wright
Todd Wright (born in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American sports radio personality. He is currently the host of "Todd Wright Tonight" on Sporting News Radio, which debuted on Monday, June 12, 2006 and airs Monday to Friday from 10 p.m.-2 a.m. (Eastern). He was previously the host of ESPN Radio's "AllNight with Todd Wright", and was a part of ESPN Radio from 1996 to 2005. - Ferdie Pacheco
Ferdie Pacheco is a Showtime boxing analyst who was earlier the physician to Muhammad Ali. Pacheco had been interested in boxing since childhood, and worked with many fighters. He began working with Ali, where he gained fame as Ali's cornerman. Pacheco left Ali's team in the late 1970s when it became clear to him that boxing was taking its toll on Ali, and when his warnings that Ali should retire went unheeded. He is still friends with Ali to this day. - Jon Schaffer
Jon Ryan Schaffer (born March 15, 1968 in Franklin, Indiana) is a heavy metal guitarist and songwriter. He is the founder and only remaining original member of the heavy metal band Iced Earth. At the age of 14 Jon got his first guitar and began writing music. At the age of 16 he dropped out of Northrop High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana and moved out of his parents' home to Tampa, Florida, in order to start up a band and play music. - Joe Redner
Joseph R. "Joe" Redner, born "c." 1940, is the owner of the Mons Venus, a nude strip club in Tampa, Florida, and is known as the father of the nude lap dance. Redner has been engaged in legal battles with the Tampa City Council, which has tried to place restrictions on the strip club industry for 25 years. Mons Venus and Redner have filed suits that have reached the Supreme Court and have become case law in many court cases. - Rachel Specter
Rachel Sarah Specter (born April 9, 1980 in Tampa, Florida) is an American actress and is best known as the model for the RGX bodyspray commercials. She has also been cast in the pilot for "Not Another High School Show" on Comedy Central. She graduated from the University of Florida with honors, and was a member of the Delta Gamma sorority. - Trey Traviesa
Trey Traviesa is a Republican Florida State Representative serving Florida district 56, in the Tampa area. He received his B.S. in Finance from Florida State University and his M.B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. Traviesa grew up in the Tampa area with his parents and his sister. His mother was a public school teacher for 34 years and his father worked in juvenile justice. He was Student Body President at FSU. - David Heath
David Christian Heath (born February 16, 1969) is an American professional wrestler better known by his Ring names The Vampire Warrior and Gangrel. - Ozzie Timmons
Ozzie Timmons (born September 18, 1970 in Tampa, Florida), is a former professional baseball player who played outfielder in the Major Leagues from 1995-2000. - Gene Nelson
Wayland Eugene Nelson (born December 3, 1960 in Tampa, Florida), is a former professional baseball player who pitched in the Major Leagues from 1981-1993. - Todd Schnitt
Todd Andrew "MJ" Schnitt (born January 24,1966) is a radio host whose two shows are based in Tampa, Florida. "The MJ Morning Show" is Todd's morning radio show, on which he goes by the name "MJ". The flagship station for the show is Clear Channel's top-rated WFLZ (93.3 FM) in Tampa. In addition, he hosts "The Schnitt Show", which is an afternoon talk show focusing more on politics and world news, and originates from another Tampa Clear Channel station, … - Lionel
Michael William LeBron (born August 26, 1958), popularly known as Lionel, is a nationally syndicated radio talk show host based in New York City. Starting May 14, 2007, he hosts a daily three-hour radio talk show from 9 a.m. to noon weekdays on Air America Radio. Prior to the Air America show, he hosted a nationally-syndicated show on the WOR Radio Network six days a week (9 p.m.-midnight ET weekdays, and 5-8 p.m. ET Saturdays), …
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