- Dale Carnegie
Dale Breckenridge Carnegie (originally Carnegey) (November 24 1888 - November 1 1955) was an American writer and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking and interpersonal skills. Born in poverty on a farm in Missouri, he was the author of "How to Win Friends and Influence People," first published in 1936, a massive bestseller that remains popular today. He also wrote a biography of Abraham Lincoln, … - Peter Ryan
Peter James Ryan was the Commissioner of the New South Wales Police from 1996 until 2002. He was recruited to the position from an international pool of applicants following the controversial Wood Royal Commission into Corruption of the NSW Police that ran from 1995 to 1997. Ryan was appointed by the state Labor government of Premier Bob Carr. - Thomas Leonard
Thomas J. Leonard (July 31, 1955 - February 11, 2003) is considered a major contributor to the development of personal coaching. In 1992, he founded Coach University, a leader in coach training with over 7,000 coaches operating in 38 countries. - Eric Jensen
Eric Jensen is the founder and President of Jensen Learning Corporation Inc. (formerly known as Turning Point for Education) in San Diego, California - an international professional training organization which aims to synthesize brain research information with implications and applications for education and learning. A former teacher at all levels, from elementary to university, … - Andrew Vachss
Andrew Henry Vachss (born 1942) is an American crime fiction author, child protection consultant, and attorney exclusively representing children and youths. He is also a founder and national advisory board member of PROTECT: The National Association to Protect Children. Vachss's last name is pronounced to rhyme with "tax". He is a native New Yorker. - Tom Barton
Tom Barton is a former member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. He was first elected in 1992 as the member for Waterford and retired at the 2006 Queensland Election. He was Minister for Environment and Heritage under the Wayne Goss government from 1995 to 1996. In the first Peter Beattie government, he was minister for Police and Corrective Services, under the second Beattie government, Minister for State Development, and Minister of Employment, Training, … - 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, … - Morris Massey
Morris Massey (1939-) is a producer of training videos. His undergraduate and M.B.A. degrees are from the University of Texas, Austin, and his Ph.D. in business is from Louisiana State University. During the late 1960's through the 1970's, as an Associate Dean and Professor of Marketing, at the University of Colorado at Boulder, he received four awards for teaching excellence. - Arnold Taylor
Arnold Taylor (21 July 1945 - 22 November 1981) was a South African boxer who became the WBA Bantamweight champion in 1973. Taylor lived during the apartheid period; he was half white and half black, but he identified himself as being white. Taylor was an expert cook, he used to work at a local bakery in Johannesburg during the day before training at night. Arnold Taylor made his professional boxing debut on May 20, 1967, against Ray Buttle, … - The Scary Guy
At 6ft tall, 18 stone and tattooed from head to toe ... The Scary Guy is quite possibly the most powerful Agent For Change on the planet today! The Power to Create World Peace Lives Within Each and Everyone of Us. - The Scary Guy 2000 - Najah Ali
Najah Ali (born circa 1984) is an Iraqi amateur boxer, who was the only Iraqi boxer to qualify for the 2004 Athens, Greece Olympics. Ali became interested in boxing as a young child, but most boxing gyms in Iraq at the time were generally in bad shape, making it hard for him and his fellow young boxers to train. Najah Ali grew during the Saddam Hussein era. He claims to have heard from other athletes about tortures committed against them by Hussein and his son Uday, … - Ján Figeľ
Ján Figeľ is a Slovak politician, currently serving as European Commissioner for Education, Training, and Culture. His area of responsibility also covers sport, youth, and relations with civil society. - John F. Clark
John F. Clark is the ninth Director of the United States Marshals Service. He was appointed to the position by president George W. Bush on March 17, 2006. Clark has more than 20 years experience in the Marshals Service, having served previously as the United States Marshal, Acting Marshal, and Chief Deputy U.S. Marshal for the Eastern District of Virginia. - David L. Hough
David L. Hough is a Port Angeles, Washington writer on rider safety, education and training. He is a columnist for Motorcycle Consumer News and BMW Owners News magazines, and has several published books. He has won the Motorcycle Safety Foundation's Excellence in Motorcycle Journalism award twice. He has also designed a rider skills course for sidecar riders - Jose Pasillas
Jose Antonio Pasillas II is the drummer of the rock band Incubus. Some of his influences include Chad Sexton of 311, Tim Alexander of Primus, Stewart Copeland of The Police, Tré Cool of Green Day, Ian Paice of Deep Purple, and Jon Fishman of Phish. He is of Mexican descent. In the liner notes of the critically-acclaimed release from Incubus entitled "S.C.I.E.N.C.E.", Pasillas is credited with making burritos and other food items for the band. - Charles S. Howard
Charles Stewart Howard was an American businessman. He made his fortune as an automobile dealer and who became a prominent Thoroughbred racehorse owner. Howard was stamped perhaps the most successful Buick salesman of all time. He lost a son to a car accident in 1926 at an early age and later bought the soon-to-be-famous horse Seabiscuit. - Lord Frederick Windsor
Lord Frederick Michael George David Louis Windsor is an English financial analyst who is the only son of Prince and Princess Michael of Kent (née Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz). Lord Frederick was born in Paddington, London, United Kingdom and has a sister, Lady Gabriella Windsor, born in 1981. He is presently 31st in the line of succession to the British Throne. - Joseph Serrano
Joseph Serrano (born 1981) is a Puerto Rican who was an amateur boxing star. Serrano had an award winning career as an amateur. A member of the Bairoa Gym boxing team, he met, among others, Miguel Cotto during his career as an amateur boxer. Cotto and Serrano forged a friendship as they belonged to the same team. Serrano joined the Puerto Rican Olympic boxing team that participated in Athens. - Edmund Charles Tarbell
Edmund Charles Tarbell (April 26, 1862 - August 1, 1938) was an American Impressionist painter. He was a member of the Ten American Painters. Tarbell was born at West Groton, Massachusetts, to a family that immigrated from England in 1647. His father, Edmund Whitney Tarbell, died in 1863 after contracting typhoid fever while serving in the American Civil War. His mother, Mary Sophia Fernald, thereupon remarried to David Frank Hartford and moved with him to Milwaukee, … - Clarence M. Kelley
Clarence M. Kelley (October 24, 1911 - August 5, 1997) was a public servant and former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Clarence Kelley was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1911. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Kansas in 1936 as a proud member of Sigma Nu fraternity. He then continued his education to earn an LL.B. from the University of Kansas City, Missouri, in 1940. - Robert M. Gagné
Robert Mills Gagné was an American educational psychologist best known for his "Conditions of Learning". Gagné pioneered the science of instruction during WWII for the air force with pilot training. Later he went on to develop a series of studies and works that helped codify what is considered to be 'good instruction' today. He also was involved in applying concepts of instructional theory to the design of computer based training and multimedia based learning. - Jan de Vos
- Buton Rinchen
Buton Rinchen Drub, 11th Abbot of Shalu Monastery (1290-1364) was a fourteenth century Sakya master and Tibetan Buddhist leader. Buton was not merely a capable administrator but he is remembered to this very day as a prodigious scholar and writer and is Tibet's most celebrated historian. Buton catalogued all of the Buddhist scriptures at Shalah, some 4,569 religious and philosophical works and formatted them in a logical,coherent order. - Irichelle Duran
Irichelle Duran (born November 20, 1977) is a female boxer from Panama. She is the daughter of former 4 division men's boxing world champion Roberto Duran. Irichelle Duran led a rich girl's life as a small child. She used to live in a mansion, where her father even had a collection of exotic birds. In 1999, she announced her intentions to become a professional boxer, joining the likes of Laila Ali, Freeda Foreman, … - Charles Kurtsinger
Charles Kurtsinger (November 16, 1906 - September 24, 1946) was an American Hall of Fame jockey who won the Triple Crown in 1937. Known as "Charley" but in racing received the nickname "The Flying Dutchman", Kurtsinger was born in Shepherdsville, Kentucky and learned race riding from his jockey father and from veteran rider Mack Garner. - Calvin Zola Makongo
Calvin Zola Makongo (born December 31, 1984 in Kinshasa), often known simply as Calvin Zola, is a football (soccer) player from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He currently plays in England for Tranmere Rovers F.C. Zola began his career at Newcastle United. After a spell with Oldham Athletic, he was released on a free transfer to Tranmere Rovers, in 2005/2006 season he scored 4 goals for the Tranmere in his first season. - Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov
Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov (February 24, 1744-October 2, 1817) was the most illustrious Russian naval commander and admiral of the 18th century. He was born in the village of Burnakovo in the Yaroslavl gubernia, to a modest family of the minor nobility. On February 15, 1761, he signed up for the Russian Navy in Saint Petersburg. After training, he served on a galley in the Baltic Fleet. - David M. Kopp
David M(arshall) Kopp (born November 12, 1965 in Canarsie neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York) is an assistant professor and department chair of Human Resource Development (HRD) at Barry University located in Miami Shores, Florida; Kopp also consults and writes in the areas of organizational development, performance improvement, training and adult education. He obtained his B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Louisville in 1987, … - Job Dean Jessop
Job Dean Jessop (December 4, 1926 - January 30, 2001) was an American Thoroughbred horse racing jockey. Born in Utah, Job Jessop was just eighteen years old when on August 9, 1944 as an apprentice jockey he won six races in one program at Ellis Park in Henderson, Kentucky. The following year, he won more races than any other jockey in the United States finishing the year with 290 victories, 103 more than his closest rival. - Sanders Anne Laubenthal
Sanders Anne Laubenthal (December 25, 1943 - May 15, 2002) was an American poet, novelist, historian and textbook writer. Much of her work concerns Mobile, Alabama, of which she was a native. She also wrote about the history of unrecorded areas of Scotland. She is best known, however, for one major work, the Arthurian fantasy "Excalibur", first published in the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in August 1973 and reprinted a number of times since. - Heliodoro Gustines
Heliodoro Gustines is a retired Panamanian-born jockey and horse trainer. In 1967, TIME magazine called him "The best grass-course rider in the United States." Although Gustines is best known as a jockey on many of U.S. Racing Hall of Fame inductee Forego, the most important win in his riding career came in an American Classic Triple Crown race on June 1, 1968 when he rode Stage Door Johnny to victory in record time in the Belmont Stakes. - Mahnaz Afkhami
Mahnaz Afkhami (Iran/U.S.) is Founder and President of the Women's Learning Partnership, Executive Director of the Foundation for Iranian Studies, and former Minister for Women's Affairs in Iran. In exile in the United States, Ms. Afkhami has been a leading advocate of women's rights for more than three decades, having founded and served as director and president of several international non-governmental organizations that focus on advancing women's status. - Tab Pierce
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Dr. Michael Bhatty (born 1967) is a noted computer game designer, producer and writer from Germany, responsible for the development and integration of modern story mechanics in the German game industry. Bhatty defines games not just as games, but a media form of its own, therefore implying that a far vaster range of content can be covered. His dissertation in media science covers the aspects of the history of interactive fiction, conncected to film, TV, … - Mark Coutts
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Born in Birmingham, UK, to L. Webb a battle of El Alamein war widow, I was the youngest of 5 children. Started cycling at the age of 8 and was many times British National cycling champion and National record holder at 10 miles, 25 miles and 1 hour. Moved to the Netherlands in 1967 where I became world cycling road champion, signed a professional contract with the French Mercier team in 1968 and moved to Belgium, where I still live with my family. http://crazyaboutbelgium.co.uk/blogs/webb.htm - Stewart Jordan
I am MD of PBC Ltd. We operate in a number of business areas, including working in the arena of sports promotion. This means negotiating with sponsors, suppliers, merchandising and developing exciting promotion opportunities. We provide sponsorship and brand awareness consultation as well as individual athlete management, appearances at corporate events and event promotion. I am also General Manager of a recruitment company and IT services organisation based in London
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