- Mordechai Vanunu
The traitor "' (born Marrakech, Morocco, October 13 1954), also known by his baptismal name John Crossman"', is an Israeli former nuclear technician who revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986. He was subsequently abducted in Rome by Israeli Mossad agents and smuggled to Israel, where he was tried in secret and convicted of treason.
- Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster (born November 19 1962) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, director, and producer. She has also won two Golden Globes, BAFTA and a Screen Actors Guild Award. After appearing as a child in several commercials, Foster won her first role in the 1970 TV movie "Menace on the Mountain", followed by several Disney productions. Foster did not experience her breakout role until 1976, …
- Keith Campbell
Professor Keith Campbell is an English biologist best known for being credited with the main role in the team that in 1996 first cloned a mammal, a Finn Dorset lamb named Dolly, from fully differentiated adult mammary cells. The work was published in February 1997. Campbell grew up in Birmingham in England. He got his microbiology bachelor's degree from the University of London and his doctoral degree from the University of Dundee in Scotland.
- Robert Brown
Robert Brown (December 21, 1773-June 10, 1858) is acknowledged as the leading British botanist to collect in Australia during the first half of the 19th century. Brown was born in Montrose, Scotland on 21 December 1773. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, where he was a classmate of Thomas Dick. He joined the army as a surgeon in 1795.
- Chuck Campbell
Chuck Campbell is a Canadian actor probably best known for his role as a Technician on "Stargate Atlantis". He will also have a role on the upcoming webseries, Sanctuary. He was born August 5th, 1969, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He got a BA in Theatre at Dalhousie University. He started his career in acting working with theatre troupes touring the US and Canada. He later moved to Toronto to start work in film and television, and also did a lot of radio and voice acting.
- Robert Rauschenberg
Robert Milton Ernest Rauschenberg (b. October 22 1925 in Port Arthur, Texas) is an American artist who came to prominence in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. Rauschenberg is perhaps most famous for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations. While the Combines are both painting and sculpture, Rauschenberg has also worked with photography, printmaking, papermaking, …
- Tony Allen
Tony Oladipo Allen is a Nigerian drummer, composer, and songwriter. As drummer and musical director of Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s band Africa 70 from 1968-1979, Tony Allen was a co-founder of the genre of Afrobeat music. As Fela stated, “without Tony Allen, there would be no Afrobeat”.
- Eric Balfour
Eric Salter Balfour (born April 24, 1977) is an American film and television actor.
- Tom Stone
Tom Stone is the stage name of Thomas Bengtsson, a Swedish magician, editor and author.
- Roger Bolton
Roger William Bolton (b. 7 September 1947, Dublin, Ireland - d. 18 November 2006, Woking, Surrey) was a British trade unionist. Roger Bolton left Dublin with his family in 1958 when they moved to London. He began his career as a photographic technician at Boots the Chemist before moving to the BBC and became a prominent member of the BBC trade union, the Association of Broadcasting Staff (ABS). In 1979, he began working for the ABS, …
- John Alton
- Blue Panther
Blue Panther is a Mexican professional wrestler currently working for Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre. The "Blue" part of his ring name is an homage to Aníbal, a wrestler he looked up to growing up who wore a blue mask.
- Martin Atkins
Martin Atkins (born December 24, 1965) is an English darts player. His nickname is "The Assassin". His most notable achivement was beating former BDO World Champion Jelle Klaasen to win the Finnish Open on March 11, 2006. Atkins has been a Yorkshire county player since 1996, and has represented the England national side in the British Internationals Series. He reached the last 16 of the BDO World Professional Darts Championship in both 2006 and 2007.
- Ben Shahn
Ben Shahn (September 12, 1898 - March 14 1969) was a Lithuanian-born American artist, muralist, social activist, photographer and teacher. He is best known for his works of Social realism, his leftist political views, and his series of lectures published as "The Shape of Content". He was born in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, to Joshua Hessel and Gittel (Lieberman) Shahn. His father was exiled to Siberia for alleged revolutionary activities in 1902, at which point Shahn, …
- Roy H. Park
Roy Hampton Park (15 September 1910 - 25 October 1993) was an American media executive and entrepreneur. Park was born in Dobson, North Carolina the son of a tenant farmer. He began writing for two local North Carolina newspapers at the age of 12; although he suffered a severe bout with rheumatic fever at 13, Park graduated from Dobson High School at the age of 15 and followed his brother to North Carolina State University.
- Tim Paterson
Tim Paterson (born 1956) is an American computer programmer, best known as the original author of the popular MS-DOS operating system. Educated at the University of Washington, Paterson worked as a repair technician for a computer store in Seattle, Washington. After he graduated "magna cum laude" in June 1978, he went to work for Seattle Computer Products as a designer and engineer.
- Oswald Spengler
Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler (Blankenburg am Harz May 29, 1880 - May 8, 1936, Munich) was a German historian and philosopher whose interests also included mathematics, science, and art. He is best known for his book "The Decline of the West" in which he puts forth a cyclical theory of the rise and decline of civilizations. After "Decline" was published in 1918, Spengler produced his "Prussianism and Socialism" in 1920, …
- Michał Życzkowski
Michał Życzkowski was a Polish technician, professor and doctor honoris causa of Cracow University of Technology, member of Polish Academy of Sciences and Polish Academy of Learning.
- Gerhard Herzberg
Gerhard Herzberg , PC , CC , FRSC , FRS ( December 25 , 1904 a March 3 , 1999 ) was a pioneering physicist and physical chemist , and Nobel Laureate in chemistry . Born in Germany , he fled to Canada in 1935, where he continued his distinguished scientific career. Herzberg's main work concerned atomic and molecular spectroscopy .
- Alexandra Nechita
Alexandra Nechita (b. August 27, 1985) is a Romanian-born American cubist painter and muralist.
- Stuart Sutherland
Norman Stuart Sutherland (26 March 1927 - 8 November 1998), always known professionally as Stuart Sutherland, was a British psychologist and writer. Sutherland was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham before going to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology. He stayed at Oxford for his DPhil which he took in zoology under the supervision of J. Z. Young.
- Tadeusz Żyliński
Tadeusz Żyliński was a Polish technician and textilist. He was a professor of Technical University of Łódź, creator of Polish school of textile metrology. Author of "Metrologia włókiennicza" and "Nauka o włóknie".
- Ernst Fuchs
Ernst Fuchs (born 14 June 1851, Vienna; died November 21, 1930, Vienna) was an Austrian ophthalmologist. In 1910, Fuchs reported 13 cases of bilateral central corneal clouding in elderly patients. Fuchs originally referred to it as "dytrophia epithialis corneae."
- Arnett Cobb
Arnett Cobb (10 August 1918-24 March 1989) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Cobb was born Arnette Cleophus Cobbs in Houston, Texas. His musical career began with the local bands of Chester Boone, from 1934 to 1936, and Milt Larkin, from 1936 to 1942 (which included a period on the West Coast with Floyd Ray). He replaced Illinois Jacquet in Lionel Hampton's band in 1942, staying with Hampton until 1947.
- James Krenov
James Krenov is a world-famous woodworker. James Krenov was born in Wellen in Kamchatka in 1920. Currently he lives in Fort Bragg, CA where he still makes cabinets. As of 2002, he no longer teaches at College of the Redwoods, whose fine woodworking program he founded.
- Willem Mengelberg
Joseph Willem Mengelberg (28 March 1871 - 22 March 1951) was a Dutch conductor. Mengelberg was born fourth of sixteen children to German born parents in Utrecht, Netherlands. He studied in the Cologne conservatory, including piano and composition. When he lived in Lucerne, Switzerland in his early twenties, he was conductor of an orchestra and a choir, directed a music school, taught piano lessons and continued to compose.
- Giovanni Pastrone
Giovanni Pastrone, also known by his artistic name Piero Fosco (13 September 1883 - 27 June 1959), was an Italian film pioneer, director, screenwriter, actor and technician. Pastrone was born in Montechiaro d'Asti. He worked during the era of the silent film, but he influenced many important directors in the international cinema, such as David Wark Griffith, in his "Birth of a Nation" (1915) and" Intolerance "(1916).
- Michael Betancourt
Michael Betancourt (b. 1971, New Jersey) is a critical theorist, art and film historian, and animator. His principle published works focus on the technologies of visual music, new media art and theory, and formalist study of motion pictures.
- Anne Sudworth
Anne Sudworth is a British artist internationally known for her paintings of magical trees and haunting moonlit landscapes. She started her career as a professional artist in 1993 when she presented her first exhibition "Visions and Views". Many more exhibitions have followed including the highly successful "Dreams and Whispers" show and "The Dark Side". She has since exhibited widely and now has work in many collections around the world including Germany, Australia, …
- Lona Cohen
Lona Theresa Cohen, Leontine, a.k.a. in London as Helen Kroger (11 January 1913 - 23 December 1992) was born in Adams, Massachusetts. She was an American citizen and member of the Communist Party USA who was recruited into Soviet espionage in 1939 by her husband, Morris Cohen. She worked for Soviet case officers, including Anatoli Yatskov, out of the New York Rezidentura during World War II. After Morris was drafted in 1942, …
- Ouyang Yu
Ouyang Yu (born 1955) is a contemporary Chinese-Australian author, translator and academic. Ouyang Yu was born in the People's Republic of China, arriving in Australia in 1991 to study for a Ph. D. at La Trobe University which he completed in 1995. Since then his literary output has been prodigious. Apart from several collections of poetry and a novel he has translated authors as diverse as Christina Stead, Xavier Herbert, Germaine Greer and David Malouf among others.
- James J. Taylor
James J. Taylor (???? 1931-February 11 2005) was a self-taught videographer and member of Actors' Equity Association in New York. Taylor was the driving force behind the creation of the Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archive (WAPAVA). After his death, the archive was renamed after Taylor as a posthumous honor - and a rather significant one at that; it is one of only two Actors' Equity-approved collections of theater performances in the country.
- Paul Schatz
Paul Schatz (1898-1979) was a German-born sculptor, inventor and mathematician who patented the oloid, discovered the inversions of the platonic solids including the "invertible cube" which is often sold as an eponymous puzzle, the Schatz cube. From 1927 to his death he lived in Switzerland.
- Norbert Vollertsen
Norbert Vollertsen (born 10 February 1958 in Dusseldorf) is a German doctor and human rights activist. Vollertsen practiced medicine in North Korea from 1999 to 2001 with the Cap Anamur Committee, a non-governmental cooperation organization. In August 1999, he and Francois Large, another aid worker, donated their skin to Pak Jong Thae, a tractor factory worker in Haeju, South Hwanghae, …
- Jan Sloot
Romke Jan Bernhard Sloot (died 1999) was a Dutch electronics technician, who claimed to have developed a revolutionary data compression technique, the Sloot Digital Coding System, which could compress a complete movie down to 8 kilobytes of data- this is orders of magnitude greater compression than the best currently available technology. Despite the seeming impossibility of such a technique there were investors that saw potential.
- Thomas Stockham
Thomas Greenway Stockham (December 22, 1933-January 6, 2004) was an American scientist who developed the first practical digital audio recording system, and pioneered techniques for digital audio recording and processing as well. Stockham, known as the "father of digital audio", earned an Sc.D. degree from MIT in 1959 and was appointed Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering.
- Zeng Qinghong
Zeng Qinghong is PRC vice president and secretary general of the 17th CCP Congress. Zeng is a protege of former PRC president Jiang Zemin, having served under Jiang in Shanghai and having moved with him to Beijing. Zeng was born in July 1939 in Ji'an, Jiangxi.
- Gil Dobie
Gilmour "Gloomy Gil" Dobie (January 21, 1879-December 23, 1948) was an American football head coach. He was born in Hastings, Minnesota, USA.
- Doc Bundy
Infectious sense of humor and a relaxed charm with the intense competitiveness of a world champion. Doc started his racing career in 1973, as a technician with the late Peter Gregg's Brumos Porsche Racing Team. He moved to Al Holbert Racing in 1974, where he spent the next five years preparing cars while waiting for a seat. In 1980 Doc began driving for Holbert Racing in a Porsche 924, capturing a National Championship as a rookie.
- Vladimir Petlyakov
Vladimir Mikhailovich Petlyakov (6.15(27).1891 — 1.12.1942) was a Soviet aircraft designer. Petlyakov was born in the town of Sambek of Don Cossack Host in 1891 and studied in Taganrog's technical college (today "Taganrog Petlyakov Technical College") from 1900-1910. In 1917-1918, Petlyakov worked as a technician in the aerodynamics laboratory at Moscow State Technical University under the guidance of Nikolai Zhukovsky. In 1922, he graduated from the same university.