- Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft he has held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and he remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8% of the common stock. "Forbes" magazine's list of The World's Billionaires has ranked him as the richest person in the world since 1995, … - Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee (November 27, 1940 - July 20, 1973) was a martial artist, philosopher, instructor, and martial arts actor widely regarded as the most influential martial artist of the 20th century. Born in San Francisco and raised in Hong Kong, Lee is best remembered for the presentation of Chinese martial arts to the non-Chinese world. - Ray Charles
Ray Charles was the stage name of Ray Charles Robinson, a pioneering American pianist and soul musician who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues. He brought a soulful sound to country music, pop standards, and a rendition of "America the Beautiful" that Ed Bradley of "60 Minutes" called the "definitive version of the song, an American anthem - a classic, … - Duff McKagan
Duff McKagan (born Michael Andrew McKagan on February 5 1964) is an American musician and bassist, who is best known for his thirteen-year tenure in the 1980s hard rock band Guns N' Roses. He is currently the bassist for the modern rock band Velvet Revolver. - Stone Gossard
Gossard graduated from Seattle's Northwest School in 1984. The first band Stone joined was March of Crimes, a band of which future Soundgarden bassist Ben Shepherd was a member. Although Gossard's time with the band was brief, it introduced him to the emerging music scene in Seattle. Stone formed a close friendship with fellow guitarist (and future Mudhoney member) Steve Turner , who also had attended the Northwest School, and joined Turner in his band The Ducky Boys. - Rainn Wilson
Rainn Dietrich Wilson (pronounced "Rain") (born January 20, 1966) is a two-time Screen Actors Guild Award winning American actor. He is known for his roles as the neurotic Dwight Schrute on the American television comedy "The Office," and Arthur Martin, assistant mortician in HBO's "Six Feet Under". - Adam West
Adam West (born William West Anderson on September 19, 1928) is an American actor who is best known for playing the role of Batman/Bruce Wayne on the TV series "Batman" (which also had a film adaptation). - Bill Nye
William Sanford Nye (b. November 27, 1955), also known as "Bill Nye the Science Guy," is an American television program host, scientist, and mechanical engineer. - Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Jeffrey Dean Morgan (born April 22, 1966 in Seattle, Washington) is an American actor. Morgan became well known in 2006 for playing three high-profile recurring roles simultaneously: patient Denny Duquette on "Grey's Anatomy", patriarch John Winchester on "Supernatural", and Judah Botwin, the deceased husband of show protagonist Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker) on the Showtime series "Weeds". - Carol Channing
Carol Elaine Channing (born on January 31, 1921 in Seattle, Washington) is an American singer and actress. The winner of three Tony Awards (including a lifetime achievement award), a Golden Globe and an Academy Award nominee, Channing is best remembered for two roles: Lorelei Lee in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and Dolly Gallagher Levi in "Hello, Dolly!". She is easily recognized by her distinctive voice and wide eyes, … - Tom Skerritt
Thomas Alderton Skerritt (born August 25, 1933) is an Emmy Award-Winning American actor who has appeared in over 40 films and more than 200 television episodes (half "Picket Fences"). - 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, … - Frances Farmer
Frances Elena Farmer (September 19, 1913 - August 1, 1970) was an American film actress. - Jean Smart
Jean E. Smart (born September 13, 1951) is an Emmy Award-winning American film and television actress. - Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy (born February 15, 1914 in Seattle, Washington) is an American actor. He is the brother of the late author Mary McCarthy, and a distant cousin of former U.S. senator and presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy. He graduated from Campion High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in 1932. McCarthy has had a long and distinguished career as an in-demand character actor. He has had some starring roles sprinkled in his career, … - Dyan Cannon
Dyan Cannon (born Samille Diane Freisen on January 4 1937) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated American film and television actress, director, screenwriter, editor, and producer. - Joel McHale
Joel E. McHale (born November 20, 1971 in Seattle, Washington) is an American actor and host of "The Soup" on E! Entertainment Television. McHale is of Irish and Swedish roots and graduated from Mercer Island High School, outside Seattle, Washington. He received his Bachelor's degree in history from the University of Washington in 1995. He was a member of the Theta Chi fraternity. - Gary Kildall
Gary Arlen Kildall (May 19, 1942 - July 11, 1994) was an American computer scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur who created the CP/M operating system and founded Digital Research, Inc.(DRI). Kildall was one of the first people to see microprocessors as fully capable computers rather than equipment controllers and to organize a company around this concept. He also co-hosted the PBS TV show "The Computer Chronicles". - Steven Hill
Steven Hill is an American film and television actor who was a founding member of Lee Strasberg's Actor's Studio. He is best known as Adam Schiff in the NBC TV drama series "Law & Order", a part that he played for ten seasons (1990–2000). At the time of his departure, he was the longest-serving cast member. After a four-year hitch with the Naval Reserve, Hill made his first New York stage appearance in Ben Hecht's "A Flag is Born" (1946), … - Ryan Stiles
Ryan Lee Stiles (born April 22, 1959) is an Emmy-nominated American actor and comedian, whose work is often associated with improvisational comedy. - Stacie Orrico
Stacie Joy Orrico (born March 3, 1986) is a Grammy-nominated and Dove Award-winning pop singer, songwriter, and occasional actress. - Kyle Cease
Kyle Cease (born September 19, 1977) is an American-born actor/comedian, born in Seattle, Washington. By the time he was eighteen he had become one of the most famous comedians in the Pacific Northwest. At twenty-one, he was touring nationally. While still keeping residence in Seattle, Washington, his hometown, he was cast as Bogey Lowenstein in the 1999 movie "10 Things I Hate About You". Right after the film, he moved to Los Angeles. - Gypsy Rose Lee
Gypsy Rose Lee (also known as Rose Louise Hovick and Louise Hovick) (February 9, 1911 or 1914 - April 26, 1970) was an American actress and burlesque entertainer, whose 1957 memoir, which included a scathing portrait of her domineering mother, was made into the stage musical and film "Gypsy". - Litefoot
Litefoot (born on August 5, 1972; also goes by the name G. Paul Davis) is a Native American rapper and the founder of the Red Vinyl record label. - Gene Nelson
Gene Nelson (March 24, 1920 - September 16, 1996), was an American dancer, actor, and television director. Born Leander Eugene Berg in Seattle, Washington, he was inspired to become a dancer by watching Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movies when he was a child. After serving in the Army during World War II, Nelson landed his first Broadway role in "Lend an Ear", for which he received the Theatre World Award. - Constance Cummings
Constance Cummings, CBE (May 15, 1910 – November 23, 2005) was an American-born British actress, known for her work on both screen and stage. Born Constance Halverstadt in Seattle, Washington to Dallas Halverstadt and Kate Cummings, she began as a stage actress, landing her first Broadway show by the age of eighteen. While appearing on Broadway, she was discovered by Sam Goldwyn, who brought her to Hollywood in 1931. - Josie Bissett
Josie Bissett (born on October 5, 1970) is an American actress best known for her role as Jane Andrews Mancini on the TV series "Melrose Place". Bissett was born in Seattle, Washington, USA. She has been married to Rob Estes since 1992 and they have two children, Mason Tru and Maya Rose. In August 2006, Estes was quoted during an appearance at a Television Critics Association meeting as saying that Bissett had "kicked him out of their home over 7 months earlier", … - Keye Luke
Keye Luke (June 18, 1904–January 12, 1991) was a Chinese-born American actor. Luke was born in Canton, China to a father who owned an art shop, and grew up in Seattle. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1944. Before becoming an actor he was a local artist in Hollywood and worked on several of the murals inside Grauman's Chinese Theater. Luke made his film debut in "The Painted Veil" in 1934, and the following year gained his first big role, … - Erika Christensen
Erika Jane Christensen (born August 19, 1982) is an American actress whose film appearances include "Traffic" (2000) and "The Perfect Score" (2004), among others. She also co-starred in the drama "Six Degrees" on ABC. - Ann Reinking
Ann Reinking (born November 10, 1949 in Seattle, Washington) is an American actress and dancer, most famous for her association with choreographer Bob Fosse. Reinking originally trained as a ballet dancer. After working as a chorus girl in "Coco", "Wild and Wonderful", and "Pippin", Reinking first came to critical notice as Maggie in "Over Here!" (Theatre World Award). - David Quinn
David Quinn is an American actor, entrepreneur and teacher. Quinn began acting at the age of four and appeared in numerous commercials and several educational television programs before embarking on simultaneous careers in business and education. Quinn started out as a regular on the enduring children's program Sesame Street. Between 1986-1988, he was the host of 3-2-1 Contact, the educational science series produced for PBS. - Diana Lee
Diana Lee or Diana Lee-Hsu is an American model and actress. She was chosen as Playboy's playmate of the month in May, 1988. As an actress, she performed in several Playboy videos and had an appearance in the 1989 James Bond movie "Licence to Kill". In the film, Lee played Loti, a Hong Kong narcotic agent. She also is prominently featured in the film's title sequence. From 1988 to 1994, she was married to Stephen Wayda, … - Kerwin Mathews
Kerwin Mathews (January 8 1926 - July 5 2007) was an American actor. He is best known for playing Sinbad in the 1958 Ray Harryhausen stop-motion animation feature "The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad", where he engaged in a sword fight with an animated skeleton. Mathews was born in Seattle, Washington, USA. He attended Janesville High School in Janesville, Wisconsin, where he had moved with his mother after his parents divorced. - Kate Fleming
Kathryn Ann "Kate" Fleming (October 6 1965 - December 14 2006) was an American award-winning audio book narrator and producer. She was the owner and executive producer at Cedar House Audio, an audio production company specializing in spoken word that is located in Seattle, Washington, United States. Fleming died when a flash flood trapped her inside her Madison Valley basement studio during the Hanukkah Eve Wind Storm of 2006. She is survived by her partner of nine years, … - Megyn Price
Megyn Price (born March 24, 1971 in Seattle, Washington) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Claudia Finnerty on the sitcom "Grounded for Life" and Gale Ingersoll on the sitcom "LateLine". - Michael Forest
Gerald Michael Charlebois, better known as Michael Forest (born April 17, 1929 in Harvey, North Dakota, USA), is an American voice actor who has voiced in many anime titles. However, one of his best-known roles was a live-action voice-over, that being the voice of Prince Olympius in "Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue". Formerly, Forest was a film and television actor in his heyday, but has since been well-known for his voice-acting roles. - Lindsay Felton
Lindsay Marie Felton (born December 4, 1984 in Seattle, Washington) is an American actress. Felton has been acting in a variety of roles since the age of 3, when she appeared in advertisements on local television. Her first major network television appearance came in 1994 on the short lived ABC sitcom "Thunder Alley". In 2000, Felton received her first starring role as Caitlin Seeger on the Nickelodeon show "Caitlin's Way". - John Aylward
John Aylward (born November 7, 1946) is an American actor. He is best known for playing the former DNC chairman Barry Goodwin on the NBC television series "The West Wing" and for playing Dr. Donald Anspaugh on the NBC television series "ER". - Rachel Trachtenburg
Rachel Piña Trachtenburg is a musician and singer from New York City. She is a drummer and vocalist in the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, a band she is a member of along with her parents, Jason, who is Jewish, and Tina, who is Mexican American. Jason and Tina began taking their slideshow act in various places all over Seattle. Later, they added Rachel to the band, with her playing the drums at the age of six. - Anna Kay Faris
Anna Kay Faris (born November 29, 1976 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA) is an American actress, best known for her leading roles in the "Scary Movie" films as Cindy Campbell.
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