- Piracy
Piracy is a robbery committed at sea, or sometimes on the shore, by an agent without a commission from a sovereign nation. Seaborne piracy against transport vessels remains a significant issue (with estimated worldwide losses of US$13 to $16 billion per year), particularly in the waters between the Pacific and Indian Oceans, off the Somali coast, and in the Strait of Malacca and Singapore, which are used by over 50,000 commercial ships a year. - Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor. He is best known for his performances as the tough, wisecracking space pilot Han Solo in the "Star Wars" film series, and the adventurous archaeologist/action hero in the Indiana Jones film series. Ford has also been the star of many high-grossing hits Hollywood blockbusters such as "Air Force One" and "The Fugitive", which have distanced him from his famous Star Wars and Indiana Jones roles. - Jenna Jameson
Jenna Jameson (born Jenna Marie Massoli on April 9 1974) is an American pornographic actress and entrepreneur who has been called the world's most famous porn star and "The Queen of Porn". She started acting in erotic films in 1993 after having worked as a stripper and glamour model. By 1996, she had won the three top newcomer awards from pornographic film industry organizations. She has since won more than 20 adult film awards, … - C. S. Lewis
Clive Staples Lewis, commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis, was an Irish author and scholar. Lewis is known for his work on medieval literature, Christian apologetics, literary criticism and fiction. He is best known today for his series "The Chronicles of Narnia". Lewis was a close friend of J. R. R. Tolkien, the author of "The Lord of the Rings". - Ann Marie
Ann Marie (born 1953, Wood River, Illinois, USA) is the stage name of the now retired big-bust model, stripper and actress, Kathy Ayers. She attended the University of Illinois before dropping out to pursue a career in nightclub dancing in Sarasota, Florida in 1974. As a feature dancer she earned up to US$3,500 a week. In 1975, she appeared as the "Fisherman's wife" and "Pink bikini woman" in the Russ Meyer movie "Supervixens". - James Cameron
James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian director, producer and screenwriter. He is noted for his action/science fiction films, which are often highly successful financially and innovatively. Thematically, James Cameron's films generally explore the relationship between man and technology. Cameron also directed the film "Titanic", which went on to become the top-grossing film of all time, with a worldwide gross of over US$1.8 billion. - Ernie Ball
Ernie Ball was an American entrepreneur, musician, and innovator, widely acclaimed as a revolutionary in the development of guitar-related products. He began as a club and local television musician and small business entrepreneur, building an international business in guitars and accessories that would eventually gross US$40 million a year. - Mark Shuttleworth
Mark Richard Shuttleworth (born 18 September 1973) is a South African entrepreneur who was the second self-funded space tourist and first African national in space. He is now best known for his leadership of the Ubuntu Linux distribution. He currently lives in London and holds dual citizenship of South Africa and the United Kingdom - Kenny Perry
James Kenneth Perry (born August 10, 1960) is an American professional golfer. Perry was born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, but lived most of his formative years in Franklin, Kentucky, in Simpson County. He started high school at Franklin-Simpson High School, but transferred to Lone Oak High School in McCracken County, Kentucky, when his father's job took him to work in Paducah, Kentucky. Kenny graduated from Lone Oak High School and attended Western Kentucky University. - Ben Wallace
Ben Wallace (born September 10, 1974 in White Hall, Alabama) is an American professional basketball player in the NBA with the Chicago Bulls. Nicknamed Big Ben and The Body, he plays the position of center and is and. He is a four-time winner of the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award (a feat equalled only by Dikembe Mutombo), and is regarded as one of the finest defensive players in the game. - Carlos Boozer
Carlos Austin Boozer, Jr. (born November 20 1981, in Aschaffenburg, West Germany (present Germany)) is an American professional basketball player currently with the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association. Boozer was a two-time Parade All-American in high school, leading the Juneau-Douglas Crimson Bears to back-to-back state titles. He then played collegiately for Duke University, helping the team win the 2001 NCAA basketball tournament. - James Randi
James Randi (born August 7, 1928), stage name The Amazing Randi, is a stage magician and scientific skeptic best known as a challenger of paranormal claims and pseudoscience. Born Randall James Hamilton Zwinge, in Toronto, Canada, Randi is the founder of the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF). - Rebecca Taylor
Rebecca Taylor is a New Zealand-born fashion designer based in New York, New York, USA. To Americans, she is probably the most famous New Zealand designer, with her label at US and European department stores. Her retail outlets include boutiques in Japan. Her company was reported in 2003 as having a US$12 million turnover. - Ryan Dempster
Ryan Scott Dempster (born May 3, 1977 in Gibsons, British Columbia, Canada) is a pitcher for the Chicago Cubs in Major League Baseball. Dempster bats and throws right handed. He has a win-loss record of 56-59 and an earned run average of 4.83 in 247 games (162 starts) [all statistics are through the 2005 season]. He has played for the Florida Marlins (1998-2002), the Cincinnati Reds (2002-2003), and the Chicago Cubs (2004-present). - Seymore Butts
Seymore Butts (born Adam Glasser March 18, 1964 in The Bronx, New York) is an American adult film director, producer, customer service advisor for domestic and general and occasional star who has produced hundreds of films in the "gonzo" genre of pornographic films (faux reality-based adult material), and is considered one of the foremost in the business. After making several appearances as a supporting actor in the late 1980s, … - Lakshmi Mittal
Lakshmi Nivas Mittal is a London-based Indian billionaire industrialist, born in Sadulpur Village, in the Churu district of Rajasthan, India, and residing in Kensington, London. He is the fifth richest person in the world, with a fortune of US$32 billion according to "Forbes". The "Financial Times" named Mittal its 2006 Person of the Year. In May 2007, he was named one of the "100 most influential people" by "Time" magazine. - Mehmet Okur
Mehmet Okur (born May 26, 1979 in Yalova, Turkey) is a Turkish professional basketball player who currently plays for the Utah Jazz of the NBA. He is married to former Miss Turkey and model Yeliz Caliskan, and they have a daughter, Melisa, born on March 21, 2007. - Jeff Williams
Jeff Williams is an American poker player from Athens, Georgia. He graduated from Dunwoody High. In March of 2005, Williams won the European Poker Tour (EPT) second season Monte Carlo Grand Final where he won €900,000 (US$1,084,037). Jeff was only 19 at the time of his victory. Jeff qualified for the tournament at PokerStars where he plays under the name "yellowsub86". As of 2007, his total live tournament winnings exceed $1,000,000. - Mark Bell
Mark Bell (born on August 5, 1980 in St. Paul's, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian professional hockey forward currently playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Mark Bell played for four seasons with the Ottawa 67s, and was part of a Memorial Cup championship in 1998-99. He was drafted by the Chicago Blackhawks in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft with the eighth overall pick. Mark was a bronze medalist with Team Canada at the 2000 World Junior championships. - Chris Moneymaker
Christopher Bryan Moneymaker (born November 21, 1975 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American poker player who won the main event at the 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP). His victory is generally credited for being one of the main catalysts for the poker boom in the years following his win. Moneymaker attended Farragut High School in Farragut, Tennessee and later earned a master's degree in accounting from the University of Tennessee. - William McDonough
William A. McDonough (b. 1951, Tokyo, Japan) is an American architect and founding principal of William McDonough + Partners, whose career is focused on designing environmentally sustainable buildings and transforming industrial manufacturing processes. McDonough was born in Tokyo the son of an American Seagram's executive, and trained at Dartmouth College and Yale University. - Glen Taylor
Glen A. Taylor is a billionaire American businessman and the head of Taylor Corporation, a privately held multinational company in the printing and electronics businesses with more than 15,000 employees. Taylor grew up on a farm in Comfrey, Minnesota, and attended Minnesota State University, Mankato In which he now is one of the main benefactors, donating the funds to build the Taylor Center, the school's basketball arena. He worked at a local print shop in his early life. - Juan Ignacio Chela
Juan Ignacio Chela (born August 30, 1979, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a professional male tennis player from Argentina, and his strongest surface is slow hardcourt, but like all Argentine players he is comfortable on the clay. Chela was suspended by the ATP in 2001 for 3 months and US$ 8,000 for the use of Methyltestosterone during the Cincinnati Masters. On August 9, 2004 he reached his career-high singles ranking of World No. 15. On January 19, 2006, … - Cuttino Mobley
Cuttino Rashawn Mobley (born September 1, 1975 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American professional basketball player in the NBA who currently plays for the Los Angeles Clippers. Cuttino also known as the "Cat", attended Incarnation of Our Lord grade school in the Olney section of Philadelphia. After graduating from grade school, Cat attended Cardinal Dougherty High School and Maine Central Institute. - Vijay Mallya
Vijay Mallya is an Indian businessman and Rajya Sabha MP. The son of industrialist Vittal Mallya, he is the chairman of the United Breweries Group and Kingfisher Airlines, which draws its name from United Breweries Group's flagship beer brand, Kingfisher. Mallya receives substantial press coverage that focuses on his lavish parties and his yacht, the Indian Empress.<br - D. James Kennedy
Dr. D. James Kennedy , Senior Pastor -- Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church - Billy Williams
Billy W. Williams is a businessman in Kailua, Hawaii who is currently being sued by Greg Abbott, the Attorney General of the state of Texas, for allegedly sending thousands of spam e-mails to Texas citizens, as well as others across the United States. Abbott claims that Williams' technique involves sending e-mails with innocent-seeming subject lines designed to encourage recipients to open them ("Order confirmation" or "About last night" being two examples). - Tom Walsh
Tom Walsh (born August 26, 1964) is best known publicly as a contestant on the syndicated television game show "Jeopardy!" from January 5, 2004 through January 14, 2004. At the beginning of the 20th season of "Jeopardy!", a long-standing game rule that stipulated that winning contestants must leave after five wins was eliminated. Under the new rules, contestants can return as long as they keep winning. - Ken Jennings
Kenneth Wayne Jennings III (born May 23, 1974) holds the record for the longest winning streak on the U.S. syndicated game show "Jeopardy!" Jennings won 74 games before he was defeated by challenger Nancy Zerg on his 75th appearance. His total earnings on "Jeopardy!" are US$3,022,700 ($2,520,700 in winnings, a $2,000 consolation prize on his 75th appearance, and $500,000 in the "Jeopardy!" Ultimate Tournament of Champions). - Eddie Robinson
Eddie B. Robinson Jr. (born April 19 1976 in Flint, Michigan) is an American professional basketball player. A 6'8" guard/forward, he spent five seasons (1999-2004) in the National Basketball Association (NBA). After attending the University of Central Oklahoma, Robinson signed as a free agent with the NBA's Charlotte Hornets in 1999. Known primarily for his leaping ability and athleticism, … - Don Carter
Don Carter is an investor and businessman, perhaps most known as the founder of the Dallas Mavericks NBA and Dallas Sidekicks MISL franchise. Carter was born into a poor family in Arkansas in 1933. However, by 1957, his mother, Mary Crowley made a fortune in a direct marketing interior decoration business, known as Home Interiors & Gifts. The business was sold to Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst and is estimated to have netted Carter US$470 million. - Jorge Garbajosa
Jorge Garbajosa Chaparro Jr., nicknamed "Garbo", (born December 19, 1977 in Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid) is a Spanish basketball player currently playing for the Toronto Raptors of the NBA. At 6'9" he plays both power and small forward. - Willy Voet
Willy Voet is a Belgian sports physiotherapist. He is most widely known for his involvement in the infamous Festina doping scandal which plagued the 1998 Tour de France (often dubbed the "Tour of Shame"). On July 8, 1998, Voet was stopped by French Customs agents as he tried to cross the French-Belgian border close to Neuville-in-Férain, near Lille in northern France. - Frank Sinatra Jr.
Frank Sinatra, Jr. (born January 10, 1944) is an American singer and conductor. He is the son of famed musician Frank Sinatra and his first wife, Nancy Barbato. Frank Jr. has always existed in the shadow of his far more famous father. His supporters feel that if he had been born with another name he could have achieved quite a following of his own, while his detractors have claimed that he has made his entire career off his name. - Michael Peca
Michael Anthony Peca (born March 26, 1974 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward in the National Hockey League who has played for the Vancouver Canucks, Buffalo Sabres, New York Islanders and Edmonton Oilers. On July 18, 2006 Mike Peca agreed to a one-year deal with the Toronto Maple Leafs for the 2006-07 NHL season. - Saparmurat Niyazov
Saparmyrat Ataýewiç Nyýazow, meaning "Leader of Turkmens", referred to his position as the founder and president of the Association of Turkmens of the World. Foreign media criticized him as one of the world's most authoritarian and repressive dictators, highlighting his reputation of imposing his personal eccentricities upon the country. He was also known for an all-pervasive cult of personality which, in many ways, rivaled that of Joseph Stalin. - Henry Blanco
Henry Ramón Blanco is a Major League Baseball catcher and right-handed batter who plays in the National League for the Chicago Cubs. Basically a backup catcher most of his career, Blanco also played with the Los Angeles Dodgers (1997), Colorado Rockies (1999), Milwaukee Brewers (2000-2002), Atlanta Braves (2003) and Minnesota Twins (2004). Before the 2005 season, Blanco signed a two-year, US$2.7 million contract with the Cubs to be their backup catcher. - Red McCombs
The oldest of four children, his family moved in 1943 to Corpus Christi, Texas. He briefly attended Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas where he played football (lineman and receiver) before serving in the Army in 1946 and 1947. After completing his Army stint, McCombs enrolled at The University of Texas, attending the business school and law school. While visiting a friend in Corpus Christi, he was convinced to try selling cars. - Marcel Goc
Marcel Goc (pronounced Goch) (born August 24, 1983 in Calw, West Germany) is a NHL player currently playing center for the San Jose Sharks. He was drafted in the 1st round, 20th overall by the Sharks in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft, though he remained in Germany until 2003. He spent all of the 2003-2004 season with the Cleveland Barons, the Sharks' minor league affiliate, but joined the Sharks during the 2004 playoffs. - Fabricio Oberto
Fabricio Raúl Jesús Oberto is an Argentine professional basketball player, currently playing for the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA. He is a 6' 10", 245 lb center/power forward. He has dual Argentine and Italian citizenship. At age 17, Oberto went to a trial at "AD Atenas de Córdoba", one of the most important basketball clubs in Argentina, and was selected to start the following year, and started playing professionally later that year.
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