- 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, … - Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman, born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel is a Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated Israeli-American actress. - Hill Harper
Hill Harper (born Francis Harper on May 17 1966) is an American film, television and stage actor. - Matt Damon
As a teen, Boston-native Matt Damon used to break-dance for money in Harvard Square. Matt Damon was an extra in Field of Dreams with friend Ben Affleck when they were just starting out. ... Matt Damon appeared on Will & Grace in 2002 as Jack's rival for a coveted spot in a gay men's chorus. - Elisabeth Shue
Elisabeth Shue (Elisabeth Judson Shue) was born on Sunday, October 06, 1963 in Delaware, USA and she is a famous actress. She is best known for her actress and producer career, in which she won several trophies and awards. The most important films of her career are: Hamlet 2, Gracle, Underneath, Dream On, Hale the Hero, Twenty Bucks, Palmetto and City of Angels among others.General appearance:-... - Rashida Jones
Rashida Leah Jones (born February 25 1976), is an American actress, writer, model, and musician, best known for her portrayal of Karen Filippelli on "The Office". - Stockard Channing
Stockard Channing has received two Emmy Awards out of nine nominations, an Academy Award nomination, two SAG Awards out of nine nominations, and a Tony Award. She earned her Academy Award nomination and one of her Golden Globe nominations when she reprised her Tony-nominated performance in the film version of "Six Degrees of Separation." She received a SAG Award nomination for the film "Smoke" and won a People's Choice Award for her role in "Grease." - Mo Rocca
Mo Rocca is a frequent commentator for CNN, Headline News and a regular panelist on NPR's "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" Known for his wacky, tongue-in-cheek news reports and hilarious commentary, Rocca is also a current contributor to NBC's Today show and host of Bravo's "Things I Hate About You." In addition, he is regularly seen on VH1's "Best Week Ever" pop culture roundup and on the series "I Love the 70s," "I Love the 80s" and "I Love the 90s." - Winona Laduke
Winona LaDuke , 37 years old, lives on the White Earth Chippewa Reservation in Northern Minnesota with her two children. LaDuke began working on Indian issues at a young age and spoke before the United Nations when just 18 years old. - Amy Brenneman
Amy Frederica Brenneman (born June 22, 1964) is a Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated American actress best known for her roles in the television series "NYPD Blue" and "Judging Amy". - Robert Benchley
Robert Charles Benchley was an American humorist best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and film actor. From his beginnings at the "Harvard Lampoon" while attending Harvard University, through his many years writing essays and articles for "Vanity Fair" and "The New Yorker", and his acclaimed short films, Benchley's style of humor brought him respect and success during his life, … - Lemon
Lemon (Real name Andrew Anderson) (1975-) (official website: www.lemonshood.com) was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York City. Lemon is a critically acclaimed poet, spokenword artist, and actor. As a poet he has the most aired episodes on HBO's Def Poetry, eight times in six seasons, and was an original cast member of the TONY Award winning Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway. - David Bacon
David Bacon (March 24, 1914 - September 13, 1943) was an American film actor. Born Gaspar Griswold Bacon, Jr. in Barnstable, Massachusetts, his family were one of the prominent Brahmin families and active in politics. His father Gaspar G. Bacon was on the board of Harvard University, and would be elected lieutenant governor of Massachusetts. Born to a life of privilege and wealth he was graduated from Harvard. - B. J. Novak
Benjamin Joseph Manaly Novak (born July 31, 1979 in Newton, Massachusetts), better known as B. J. Novak, is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer who plays the character of Ryan Howard on the NBC sitcom "The Office". Novak is also a writer and supervising producer for "The Office". He has written the episodes Diversity Day, Sexual Harassment, The Fire, Boys and Girls, Initiation, and Safety Training. - Fred Gwynne
Frederick Hubbard Gwynne (July 10, 1926 - July 2, 1993) was a 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) tall American actor, best known for starring in the television sitcoms "Car 54, Where Are You?" and "The Munsters". For his role as Herman Munster he had to wear 40 or 50 lb (20 kg) of padding, makeup and elevator shoes. Earlier he was in the cast of "The Phil Silvers Show" as a man of enormous appetite that Sgt. - Jonathan Prince
Jonathan Alexander Prince (born August 16, 1958) is an American actor, director, screenwriter and movie producer. Prince was born in Beverly Hills, California. His parents are Dr. Martin Prince, a Los Angeles optometrist, and Gayle Prince, a special-education teacher for deaf and hearing-impaired children at the Bella Vista School in Los Angeles. Prince embarked on an acting career following graduation from Harvard University. - Nestor Carbonell
Nestor Carbonell (born December 1, 1967) is an American actor best known for his role as Luis Rivera on the sitcom "Suddenly Susan". Carbonell was born in New York City and attended Harvard University in the late 1980's. His father is active in the Cuban-American community and has held senior positions at Pepsi. Carbonell had recurring roles on "Resurrection Blvd.", "The Tick", "Strong Medicine", "Kim Possible", and "Cold Case". - David Shepherd
David Shepherd (1926-) is an American producer, director, and actor primarily noted for his work in improvisational theatre Born in New York City to an old money family, Shepherd grew up with left-leaning sensibilities. He studied English at Harvard and received an M.A. in the History of Theater at Columbia. Disenchanted with what he perceived as a european dominated theater on the East coast, Shepherd gravitated to the midwest. - George Abbott
George Abbott (June 25 1887 - January 31, 1995) was a theatre producer and director, playwright, screenwriter, and film director and producer whose career spanned more than seven decades. He was born George Francis Abbott in Forestville, New York, near the town of Salamanca, which twice elected his father mayor. In 1898 his family moved to Cheyenne, Wyoming, where he attended Kearney Military Academy. Within a few years his family returned to New York, … - Peter Sagal
Peter Sagal is an American playwright, screenwriter, actor, and host of the National Public Radio game show "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" He is originally from Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, although he currently resides in a suburb of Chicago. He is a regular contributor to the "The New York Times Magazine"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s "True-Life Tales" column, beginning with a column entitled "He Goes Down Looking," which appeared in the August 6, 2006 issue. - Tom Neal
Thomas Neal (January 28, 1914 - August 7, 1972) was an American actor famous for appearing in the critically lauded film "Detour", a tryst with Barbara Payton and later committing manslaughter. Born in Evanston, Illinois, Tom Neal debuted on the Broadway stage in 1935. In 1938 he first appeared in film in "Out West with the Hardys", part of the Mickey Rooney "Hardy family" movie series. That same year, he received a law degree from Harvard University. - Orson Bean
Orson Bean (born July 22, 1928) is an American film, television, and stage actor, as well as an author. In addition to his acting career, which began in 1952, he is also known for his numerous appearances on a variety of game shows in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Born Dallas Frederick Burroughs in Burlington, Vermont), he is a second cousin to Calvin Coolidge, who was President of the United States at the time of his birth. - Miguel Arteta
Miguel Arteta (born 1965 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is an American director of film and television, best known for his independent film "Chuck & Buck" (2000). Born to a Peruvian father and Spanish mother, Arteta grew up all over Latin America due to his father's itinerant existence as a Chrysler auto parts salesman. He went to high school in Costa Rica, but was expelled, and went to live with his sister in Boston, Massachusetts, where he learned filmmaking. - Donal Logue
DONAL LOGUE is well known to both film and television audiences for his work in a wide range of projects. He recently completed production on two upcoming film projects: the action thriller "Ghost Rider," with Nicolas Cage ; and Edward Burns ' comedy "The Groomsmen." Both films are due out in 2006. He is also currently developing "El Centro" for the FX Network, a one-hour series he will write, produce and star in. - Richard Leacock
Richard Leacock (born 18 July 1921, London) is a documentary film director and one of the pioneers of Direct Cinema. Leacock (known to his friends as "Ricky") grew up on a banana plantation in the Canary Islands (the Leacock family, though English, have long been involved in the production of Madeira wine and bananas in the Spanish and Portuguese islands), until shipped off to School in England. He attended Bedales School, then Dartington Hall School from 1929 to 1938, … - Tom Lowe
Thomas Peter "Tom" Lowe (born April 23 1978 in Stockport, England) is an English-born singer and actor. - Eden Riegel
Eden Sonja Jane Riegel (born January 1, 1981 in Washington, D.C.) is an American actress. - Andre Dubus
Andre Dubus (August 11, 1936 - February 24, 1999) was an American short story writer, essayist, and autobiographer. - China Forbes
China Forbes is an American singer and songwriter, and the lead singer of Pink Martini. Born April 29, 1970 and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she comes from a multiracial background. Her father is Cameron D. Forbes and her mother is Peggy Woodford Forbes. She also has a sister, Maya C. Forbes. She attended Phillips Exeter Academy ('88), then studied visual arts at Harvard University ('92), where she met fellow student Thomas M Lauderdale, … - Peter Ivers
Peter Scott Ivers (September 1946 - March 3, 1983) was an American musician, best known as the host of "New Wave Theatre". Ivers was born in Illinois, but raised in Brookline, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. He attended the Roxbury Latin School and then Harvard University, majoring in classical languages, but chose a career in music. He started playing harmonica with the Boston-based Beacon Street Union (although he does not appear on their album, … - Ajay Naidu
Ajay Naidu (born 12 February 1972) is an American actor. Naidu was born in Evanston, Illinois and raised in Chicago, the son of Indian immigrants to the U.S. As an actor, he trained with the American Repertory Theatre's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University. On screen, Naidu has appeared in the film "Office Space", as well as "K-Pax", "π", "Requiem for a Dream", "Bad Santa", "The War Within", … - Daniel J. Travanti
Daniel J. Travanti (born Danielo Giovanni Travanti on March 7, 1940) is an American actor. He is known for his starring role as Frank Furillo in the television drama "Hill Street Blues". Travanti, one of five children, was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin to Italian immigrant parents. His father was a factory worker. During his teen years, Travanti was an athlete and good student, earning scholarships to Harvard University, Princeton University, … - Fred Grandy
Fred Grandy (born June 29, 1948) is a former actor who became a member in 1986 of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Iowa. Grandy was born in Sioux City, Iowa. He received his bachelor's degree in English from Harvard University in 1970 and is fluent in both French and Arabic. He played the dimwitted Burl "Gopher" Smith for nine years on the American television series "The Love Boat". - David Susskind
David Susskind was best known as a pioneer TV talk show host. He was born in New York City. His program, "Open End", began in 1958 on WNTA-TV in New York City, and was appropriately titled: the program continued until Susskind or his guests were too tired to continue. In 1961, "Open End" was constrained to two hours and went into national syndication. The show was retitled "The David Susskind Show" in 1967 and continued until 1986. - Stewart Cheifet
Stewart Cheifet Stewart Cheifet is the Director of Collections for the Internet Archive. In this capacity he is responsible for all movies, videos, television programs, music, lectures, radio programs, educational courseware, and software collections.Mr. Cheifet has had a long career in the field of media and technology. He pioneered the field twenty years ago when he created the award winning public television series “Computer Chronicles”. - Edward E. Jones
Edward Ellsworth Jones was an influential social psychologist who worked at Duke University for most of his career, then moving to Princeton University in 1977. He earned his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Harvard University. Much of Jones' work is centered on the attribution process, co-developing his "theory of correspondent inferences" with Keith Davis. - Sean Gullette
Sean Gullette (born June 4 1968 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA) is a New York-based writer and actor who first received international acclaim for his role in Darren Aronofsky's film "Pi". In "Pi", Gullette played Max Cohen, a troubled and aloof mathematical genius searching for patterns and meaning in the natural world. Along with being the movie's lead actor, he also co-wrote the original script for the movie and helped design the film's promotional website. - Martha Hackett
Martha Hackett (born February 21, 1961) is an American actress. She is known for her role as Seska in the television series "Star Trek: Voyager". Hackett is an alumna of Harvard University. - Irene Ng
Irene Ng (born Sze Ng on July 30, 1974 in Penang, Malaysia) is a Chinese American actress best known for playing Shelby Woo on Nickelodeon's "The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo", which aired from 1996 to 1999. Ng moved from Malaysia to Allentown, Pennsylvania in 1989, at age 15, with her parents, sister and brother. She attended Allentown's William Allen High School. - David Monahan
David Harold Monahan (born August 13, 1971 in North Olmsted, Ohio, USA) is an actor, best known for recurring roles on "Crossing Jordan" as Detective Matt Seely and "Dawson's Creek" as Tobey Barret. He has also appeared in such films as "The Last Supper" (2000), "The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green" (2005) and "Something New" (2006). Monahan graduated from Harvard University with a degree in government.
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