- Sam Walton
Samuel Moore Walton (March 29 1918 - April 6 1992), born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma was the founder of two American retailers Wal-Mart and Sam's Club. He was the patriarch of the Walton family, one of the richest families in the world.
- Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton is a junior Democratic Senator from New York. Married to former President Bill Clinton , she was First Lady from 1993 to 2001. She is currently seeking the Democratic nomination for President in 2008 and is considered the front-runner. Mike Huckabee
- Lee Scott
H. Lee Scott, Jr. is the current president and chief executive officer of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Scott has worked for Wal-Mart in different capacities since 1979, but has held his current offices since January of 2000. Under his leadership, Wal-Mart has retained its position as the largest retailer in the world based on revenue, but its share price has fallen 22%. Scott was born and raised in Baxter Springs, …
- Garth Brooks
Troyal Garth Brooks (born February 7, 1962 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American country music singer-songwriter. Brooks' music was ubiquitous in the 1990s. He first became visible the year before the decade began with the release of his self-titled album "Garth Brooks" and was an immediate commercial success. Successfully integrating pop and rock elements into his recordings and live performances, …
- Ray Nagin
Mayor Nagin said yesterday that "there are way to many frickin' - excuse me - cooks in the kitchen... they should have done these sandbagging operations first thing in the morning and it didn't get done... quite frankly I'm very frustrated" and today he is already on track to get the organizational problems fixed. New Orleans made a very rare, wise decision to elect this man, and I hope they keep him in office for quite a while.
- Steve Rubel
Steve Rubel is a senior marketing strategist and one of the most influential bloggers in the world, according to Technorati. He currently serves as senior vice president in Edelman's me2revolution practice. Edelman is the largest independent global PR firm. Widely viewed as an expert on conversational marketing, Rubel is often sought out as a speaker and appears frequently in the press. He has been named to several prestigious lists, including: Media Magazine's Media 100, the . . .
- Alice Walton
Alice Louise Walton (born October 7, 1949) is the daughter of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton and Helen Walton, and sister of S. Robson Walton, John T. Walton (d.2005), and Jim Walton. She has an estimated net worth of about $16.6 billion. She is a graduate of Trinity University San Antonio, and lives in Mineral Wells, Texas on The Rocking W Ranch. Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton's only daughter, Alice chose not to get involved in the operations of the family business.
- Tom Coughlin
Thomas M. "Tom" Coughlin is a former vice chairman of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and confidant of founder Sam Walton. He began his career with the retailer in 1978 in the company’s security division, and was named vice chairman of Wal-Mart and elected to the Wal-Mart Board of Directors in April of 2003. He stepped down December 6, 2004. As of July 2005, he is the subject of a United States Department of Justice investigation, as well as a lawsuit by Wal-Mart, …
- David Glass
David D. Glass became Owner and Chief Executive Officer of the Kansas City Royals on April 18, 2000 after serving as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Royals since Sept. 23, 1993. The Board, comprised of Glass and other individuals appointed by Glass, approved his bid of $96 million for the Royals despite the fact a competing bid by Miles Prentice was 25% higher, at $120 million.
- S. Robson Walton
Samuel Robson (Rob) Walton (born 1945, in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is the eldest son of Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer. According to Forbes, his net worth is $16.7 billion as of 2007. Walton graduated from Columbia Law School in 1969 and became a member of the law firm that represented Wal-Mart until his father's death. Rob Walton was named chairman of the Board of Directors of Wal-Mart on April 7, 1992, two days after his father's death, …
- Adam Werbach
Adam Werbach is Founder and CEO of Act Now. He is highly regarded as one of the world's experts in sustainability. At age 23, Adam was elected as the youngest president ever of the Sierra Club, the oldest and largest environmental organization in the United States. Under his leadership, the Sierra Club helped create the largest new national park in the country and protect over 3 million acres of public land.
- Helen Walton
Helen Robson Kemper Walton was the wife of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton. She was the eleventh richest American and at one point the richest woman in the world. Helen died with an estimated net worth of $16.4 billion. Helen was the valedictorian of her high school class in Claremore, Oklahoma and a graduate of the University of Oklahoma at Norman with a degree in business. She was the daughter of L.S. Robson, a prosperous banker and rancher.
- Mike Duke
Michael T. Duke is a management executive in the U.S.A.. He is currently serving as the "Executive Vice President", "President", and "Chief Executive Officer" of Wal-Mart Stores Division USA. (Wal-Mart is the world's largest retailer, and the largest company in the world based on revenue.) He has been with Wal-Mart since 1995, serving formerly as Executive Vice President of Administration, Executive Vice President of Logistics, …
- Jim Walton
Jim Carr Walton (born 1948) is the youngest son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton. He is the Chairman of Arvest Bank. With an estimated current net worth of around $16.8 billion, he is ranked by "Forbes" as the 23rd-richest person in world. He is married to Lynne McNabb Walton and has several children, including Stephen Michael Walton Breed, Christopher Sean Walton Breed, Alice Anne Walton, Thomas Layton Walton. The family resides in Bentonville, Arkansas.
- Mike McGill
Mike McGill is an American skateboarder. He is best known for inventing of the McTwist, an inverted 540 degree mute grabbed aerial which he first performed on a wooden half-pipe in Sweden in 1984 and then at the Del Mar Skate Ranch in a concrete bowl when he returned to the US. He was inspired by Fred Blood, who'd performed a 540 on roller skates. It was a groundbreaking trick that dominated skateboarding for many years afterwards.
- David Faber
David Faber is a market news analyst for CNBC, and appears on "Squawk on the Street" (along with Mark Haines and Erin Burnett). He was dubbed "The Brain" by co-workers after he broke the Enron scandal. He has hosted several documentaries on corporations such as Wal-Mart and eBay; the Wal-Mart piece earned Faber a Peabody Award. Faber joined CNBC in 1993 after seven years at Institutional Investor.
- Charles Kernaghan
Charles Kernaghan is the executive director of the National Labor Committee in Support of Human and Worker Rights, headquartered in New York City. He has spoken out against sweatshops, corporate greed and the sometimes appalling living and working conditions of the poor of the world, whom he considers the backbone of the global economy. He is probably most famous for his outspoken stand on Kathy Lee Gifford's clothing line sold in Wal-Mart's across the world.
- Christy Walton
Christy Ruth Walton is the wife of late John T. Walton. After his death, she became the 17th wealthiest person in the world with a net worth of USD $15.9 billion. As of 2006, she is the 7th richest American and the richest woman in America with a net worth of $15.6 billion dollars.. She currently resides in Jackson, Wyoming.. She has one son, Luke.. Christy Walton
- Jason Reitman
Jason Reitman (born October 19, 1977) is a Canadian-born actor, writer, producer and director. His father is director Ivan Reitman. He attended Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, CA and majored in English-Creative Writing at University of Southern California. His biggest commercial success to date is "Thank You for Smoking", based on the novel by Christopher Buckley. He is currently set to direct "Juno", a screenplay by Diablo Cody, …
- Mike Daisey
Mike Daisey (b. 1973) is an American monologist, author, and actor best known for his full-length extemporaneous monologues. His breakthrough work "21 Dog Years" is an account of life as an Amazon.com employee during the Dot-com boom. Since that time he has created monologues about Nikola Tesla, L. Ron Hubbard, the history of the New York transit system, 9/11, Wal-Mart and a variety of other topics, …
- John T. Walton
John Thomas Walton (October 8 1946 - June 27, 2005) was a son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton. He was the chairman of True North Partners, a venture capital firm. Walton was a graduate of Bentonville High School, a public high school, where he was a star football player. Walton went on to continue his studies at the College of Wooster in Wooster, Ohio. He later dropped out in order to enlist in the U.S. Army and fight in the Vietnam War.
- Sammy Kershaw
Samuel Paul "Sammy" Kershaw (born February 24, 1958, in Kaplan in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana) is an American Country music singer and songwriter. He is a relative of Cajun music legend Doug Kershaw.
- Devin Moore
Devin Moore (born 1985) is a criminal from Alabama who sparked a large controversy over the video game "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" when he committed three acts of first-degree murder against three people in the Fayette, Alabama police station in 2003. Moore killed two policemen (Arnold Strickland and James Crump) and a dispatcher (Leslie Mealer) after being booked on suspicion of stealing a car. He then fled in a patrol car.
- Archie Norman
Archie was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Tunbridge Wells in May 1997. He was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Party in June 1997, with special responsibility for the reform and renewal programme. In July 1998 he was appointed Chief Executive of the Conservative Party.
- Kate Kretz
Kate Kretz (born March 22, 1963, Grove City, Pennsylvania) is an American artist. Kretz attended the Sorbonne in Paris in 1981, and obtained a BFA in drawing and painting from Binghamton University in 1987, and an MFA from the University of Georgia in 1994. Her work is influenced by imagery of Catholicism and Technicolor films. She has created drawings, paintings, embroideries done with human hair, and a series of Psychological Clothing.
- Thomas Schoewe
Thomas M. Schoewe (born 1952) is currently the chief financial officer and executive vice president of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.. He has been with the company since taking his positions in January of 2000. Prior to joining Wal-Mart he was with Black and Decker where he held the same positions of CFO and executive vice president from 1993-1999. He attended Loyola University Chicago where he graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree, …
- Corey Clark
Corey Delaney Clark (born July 13 1980 in San Bernardino, California) is an American singer who was a disqualified finalist in the second season of "American Idol" in 2003.
- Nancy Walton Laurie
Nancy Walton Laurie is the daughter of the late Bud Walton, the brother and business partner of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton. At Bud's death, she and her sister Ann Walton Kroenke inherited a stake in Wal-Mart now worth over USD$6 billion. She is president and founder of a New York City dance company called Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet. She and her husband Bill, major contributors to the University of Missouri–Columbia despite neither having attended the school, …
- Ann Walton Kroenke
Ann Walton Kroenke is, indirectly, an heir to part of the Wal-Mart fortune. Along with her sister, Nancy Walton Laurie, Kroenke inherited stock from father, Bud Walton (d. 1995), who was an early business partner and brother of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton. Her husband, Stan Kroenke, is a real estate developer and a billionaire in his own right; he is a part-owner of the St. Louis Rams (NFL) and majority owner of the Denver Nuggets (NBA) and Colorado Avalanche (NHL).
- Big Moe
Big Moe (born Kenneth Moore) is a rapper from Houston, Texas. Unlike most of the Houston rappers, who tended to offer a harder approach like hardcore or gangsta style, Kenneth offered a slow and calm style. He both raps and sings called rappsinging, and his producers craft smooth, melodic tracks that bounce along at a leisurely pace.
- Douglas Daft
Douglas N. Daft (born 1943 in Cessnock, New South Wales) is an Australian businessman. He graduated from the University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in Mathematics. He was CEO of Coca-Cola (2000 - 2004). In 2005, he was made a Companion in the Order of Australia (AC) for his leadership in the global business community. He is currently a Corporate Director of Wal-Mart.
- Peter Julian
Peter S. Julian, B.A., is a Canadian Member of Parliament for the New Democratic Party, representing the riding of Burnaby—New Westminster. Julian was born on April 16, 1962 in New Westminster, British Columbia to Terry and Ruth Julian. A community activist, Julian was Executive Director of the Council of Canadians and later the Western Institute for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
- Bianca Ryan
Bianca Taylor Ryan (born September 1 1994) is an American singer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who won the debut season of NBC's "America's Got Talent". At age 11, the prodigy repeatedly performed to standing ovations from the studio audiences, …
- Alan J. Lacy
Alan J. Lacy is the former Chairman and CEO of Sears, Roebuck and Company. Lacy joined Sears in 1994 and served in a number of senior positions, including Chief Financial Officer, President-Credit and President-Services before being named CEO in 2000. He became CEO of Sears Holdings Corporation following the 2005 merger of Sears and Kmart and became Vice Chairman prior to his retirement in 2006.
- Sol Price
Sol Price (born around 1916) He has been known as a pioneer of the "Warehouse store" retail model. He is a 1934 graduate of San Diego State University, and in 1938 earned a law degree from the University of Southern California Law School. Sol Price was admitted to the California Bar in November 1938, his California bar number is 16491. Price launched the first FedMart in 1954 and founded the Price Club in 1976.
- Anne Roberts
Anne Roberts is a journalism instructor and former Vancouver city councilor. She was elected as a member of Coalition of Progressive Electors in 2002. Before city council, Roberts was a member of the Vancouver School Board from 1993-1996. Prior to politics, she was chair of the Journalism Department at Langara College, having previously been a producer with CBC Radio, reporter with Canadian Press and freelance reporter for the "Chicago Tribune".
- Jem Cohen
Jem A. Cohen (born 1962, Kabul, Afghanistan) is a New York City-based filmmaker known for his observational portraits of urban landscapes, blending of media formats (16mm, Super 8, video) and collaborations with music artists. He was born in Afghanistan where his father was working for the U.S. Agency for Information and Development. Cohen's longer works include his feature film, "CHAIN", (Berlin Film Festival premiere, 2004), and the experimental documentary, …
- E. Stanley Kroenke
Enos Stanley "Stan" Kroenke is an American business entrepreneur who is listed in the Forbes 400 as one of the richest people in the world. His wealth is estimated to be about $2.1 billion and based primarily on real estate. His wife, Anne Walton, is a Wal-Mart heir. Kroenke obtained a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Missouri.
- Steve Maich
Steve Maich is a Canadian writer currently working for Maclean's magazine. His articles focus primarily on business and public policy. He graduated from St. Robert Catholic High School in Thornhill, Ontario in 1993. Generally considered a conservative, Maich has written articles defending Wal-Mart, arguing for the sale of Canadian water to the United States, and against the Kyoto Protocol. However, his articles have also argued for greater foreign aid, …
- Jerónimo Arango
Jerónimo Arango is a Mexican businessman, co-founder of the Aurrerá chain of supermarkets along with his 2 younger brothers, the famous Manuel and Placido, known for a long time as three of Mexico's wealthiest men. His fortune was estimated at 4.6 billion United States dollars in 2006 by Forbes magazine. In the 2007 Billionaires issue Forbes new estimate is 4.3 Billion. Born in 1927.