- Jessica Simpson
Jessica Ann Simpson (born July 10 1980) is an American pop singer and actress who rose to fame in the late 1990s. She has achieved seven Billboard Top 40 hits, and has three gold and two multi-platinum RIAA-certified albums. Simpson starred with her then-husband Nick Lachey in the MTV reality show "Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica". She has also begun working as an actress, and is the older sister of Ashlee Simpson, a pop rock singer. - Denzel Washington
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is a American actor and director. He has garnered much critical acclaim for his portrayals of several real-life figures, such as Steve Biko, Malcolm X, Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, and Herman Boone. - Jessica Biel
Jessica Biel Actress Jessica Biel was born on March 3, 1982, in Ely, Minnesota. Jessica grew up in Boulder, Colorado with an early ambition to be in music theater. As a child, she starred in several musicals, including The Sound of Music and Annie . In 1994, Biel was awarded a scholarship to Diane Hardin's Young Actors Space in Los Angeles. - Tori Spelling
Victoria Davey "Tori" Spelling (born May 16, 1973) is an American actress. She is best known for being Aaron Spelling's daughter; in acting she is known for her role as Donna Martin in the 1990s teen soap opera "Beverly Hills, 90210". - Mahinda Rajapaksa
Percy Mahendra 'Mahinda' Rajapaksa (born November 18, 1945) is the current President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. A lawyer by profession, Rajapakse previously served as the country's Prime Minister from April 06, 2004 until his swearing in as President for a six-year term on November 19, 2005. He is married to Shiranthi Rajapaksa, and is the father of three sons. - Elvis Costello
Elvis Costello (born Declan Patrick MacManus August 25, 1954 in London) is an English musician, singer, and songwriter. His full given name is often listed as Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus; however, Aloysius was not one of his names at birth, being added years later, around the time of the release of "King of America" (typically, it was a tongue-in-cheek gesture, … - Gerrit Zalm
Gerrit Zalm (born May 6, 1952) is a former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of the Netherlands. He was the longest serving Minister of Finance in the history of the Netherlands and has been responsible for numerous reforms of the Dutch economy. - Kirk Cameron
Kirk Thomas Cameron (born October 12, 1970) is an American actor who is perhaps most notable for his role as "Mike Seaver" on the sitcom "Growing Pains". Cameron is currently a partner in the evangelical Christian ministry "The Way of the Master" - Fred Rogers
Reverend Frederick McFeely "Fred" Rogers was an American educator, minister, songwriter and television host. Rogers was the host of the internationally acclaimed children's television show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood", in production from 1968 to 2001. As Mister Rogers, he became an iconic presence to millions of viewers. Rogers was also an ordained Presbyterian minister. - Toni Braxton
Toni Michelle Braxton (born October 7, 1967 in Severn, Maryland) is a six-time Grammy Award-winning American R&B singer, songwriter, and actress who was popular during the 1990s. She is famous for her husky alto vocal timbre. The RIAA named Braxton as one of the top selling artists of all time. - Sunil Dutt
Sunil Dutt, born as Balraj Dutt was an Indian Bollywood actor, producer, director and politician. He was the cabinet minister for Youth Affairs and Sports in the Manmohan Singh government (2004-2005). His son, Sanjay Dutt, is currently also a Bollywood star. In 1984 he joined the Congress (I) party and was elected to Parliament for five terms from the constituency of Mumbai North West. - Tammy Faye
Tamara "Tammy" Faye LaValley Bakker Messner (born March 7, 1942) is an American Christian singer, evangelist, entrepreneur, author, talk show hostess, actress and a prominent television personality. She is the former wife of televangelist, and later convicted felon, Jim Bakker, and she co-hosted with him on "The PTL Club", from 1976 to 1987. She is known for her tendency to wear heavy makeup, … - John Davidson
John Davidson (born to two Baptist ministers, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on December 13, 1941) is an American actor and singer, best known for hosting "That's Incredible!", "Time Machine", and "Hollywood Squares" in the 1980s, and a revival of "The $100,000 Pyramid" in 1991 and 1992. Davidson also was host of his own talk show, which aired daily in syndication (either 60 or 90 minutes in length) from 1980 to 1982. - Don Piper
Don Piper is a Baptist minister who wrote "90 Minutes in Heaven", a book describing his near-death experience. On January 18, 1989, Don Piper was driving on an old bridge, and before he cleared that bridge, a semi-truck crossed into his lane and hit his small Ford Escort head on. He was killed instantly on impact. He claims to have gone to heaven, where he was reunited with loved ones. An hour and a half after the accident, … - Ray Comfort
Ray Comfort (December 5, 1949) is an a well-known creationist and evangelist born in New Zealand . In 1989, Comfort was offered the opportunity to to become the Pastor of Evangelism with Hosanna Chapel in the city of Bellflower, in Southern California. He moved to the United States to accepted the position in order to bring the Way of the Master teaching to the American Church . [1] - Will Patton
Will Patton (born June 14, 1954) is an American actor. He is one of the more recognized character actors in Hollywood, appearing in numerous movies over the last 10 years. Patton was born in Charleston, South Carolina, the eldest son of a Lutheran minister. - Tim Moore
Tim Moore (December 9, 1887, Rock Island, Illinois-December 13, 1958, Los Angeles) was a celebrated African-American vaudevillian and comic actor of the 1910s-1950s period. He achieved his greatest popularity in the starring role of George "Kingfish" Stevens in the CBS television series, "Amos 'n' Andy". Tim Moore was born Harry Roscoe Moore, one of thirteen children of Harry and Cynthia Moore. The elder Moore was a night watchman at a brewery. - John Howard
John Howard (born October 22, 1952) is an Australian stage and screen actor. He is best known for his appearances in the film "The Club", the Australian comedy film, "The Crop" and the television series "SeaChange" and "Always Greener". He currently plays the regular role of Dr. Frank Campion in the Australian medical TV drama, "All Saints". - Johnny Carson
John William "Johnny" Carson (October 23, 1925 - January 23,2005) was an American actor, comedian and writer best known for his iconic status as the host of "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson". - Georges Bataille
Georges Bataille (September 10, 1897 - July 9, 1962) was a French writer and philosopher, though he avoided this last term himself. - Ringo Starr
Richard Starkey, MBE (born 7 July 1940), known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an Academy Award and Grammy Award winning English musician, singer, songwriter and actor, best known as the drummer of The Beatles. He was the oldest and shortest member of the band, and the last to join the now familiar 'Fab Four' line up. - Hugh Beaumont
Eugene Hugh Beaumont was an American actor, television director, and ordained Methodist minister. He is best known for his portrayal of the character Ward Cleaver on the popular TV series "Leave It to Beaver" from 1957 to 1963. Beaumont was born in Lawrence, Kansas, to Ethel Adaline Whitney and Edward H. Beaumont, a little over three months after the couple married. After graduating from high school, he attended the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, … - Tiara Jacquelina
Tiara Jacquelina Abdullah (born 3 October 1967 as Jacqueline Eu) is a Malaysian actress of Burmese Chinese father and Indonesian Chinese mother. She rose to fame in "Puteri Gunung Ledang", the biggest budget movie in Malaysia to date, in which she played the lead role, and sang the theme song, "Asmaradana". The movie was No. 49 on the short-list of the Best Foreign Film Category at the Academy Awards in 2004. - Ralph Waite
Ralph Waite is an American actor. His most famous role was John Walton Sr. on the 1970s CBS program "The Waltons". He also more recently appeared on the HBO series Carnivàle. He is the oldest of five children. Before becoming an actor he graduated from Bucknell University located in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania with a B.A. degree, and tried several occupations such as social worker, He received his graduate degree from Yale University School of Divinity. - Martha Munizzi
Martha Munizzi (mew-NIZ-ee) is an internationally acclaimed Gospel singer, songwriter, and musician. Along with figures like Ron Kenoly, Clint Brown and Israel Houghton, Munizzi is pioneering cross-cultural worship music that connects with both black and white Christian congregations. - Marjoe Gortner
Marjoe Gortner (born January 14, 1944 in Long Beach, California) is a former evangelical minister who first gained a certain fame in the late 1940s and early to mid 1950s when he became the youngest ordained preacher at the age of four, and then outright notoriety in the 1970s when he starred in an Oscar-winning, behind-the-scenes documentary about the lucrative business of Pentecostal preaching. The name "Marjoe" is a combination of the names "Mary" and "Joseph". - Tony Danza
Tony Danza (born Anthony Salvatore Iadanza April 21, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York), is an American actor best known for starring in two popular TV series, "Taxi" and "Who's the Boss?", as well as appearing in the Academy Award-winning motion picture, "Crash". He also hosted his own talk show, "The Tony Danza Show". - Glenn Ford
Gwyllyn Samuel Newton "Glenn" Ford (May 1, 1916 - August 30, 2006) was an acclaimed Canadian-born actor from Hollywood's Golden Era with a career that spanned seven decades. He was born to Anglo-Quebecer parents at Jeffrey Hale Hospital in Quebec City, Quebec and was a grand-nephew of Canada's first Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald. Ford moved to Santa Monica, California with his family at the age of eight, and became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1939. - Bill Nighy
Bill Nighy is a Golden Globe and BAFTA-award winning English actor. He started working in theatre and television, before his first cinema role in 1981. He is perhaps best known for his roles in "Love Actually", the "Underworld" movies, "Shaun of the Dead" and as Davy Jones in the Pirates of the Caribbean films. - Demond Wilson
Grady Demond Wilson (born October 13, 1946) is an American actor, best known for his role as Redd Foxx's long-suffering son, Lamont Sanford in the 1970s sitcom "Sanford and Son". Wilson was born in Valdosta, Georgia..Upon returning from service in Vietnam, in the early 1960s, … - Don Knight
Donald Knight (February 16, 1933 - August 18, 1997) was an English movie, television, and stage actor. Born in Manchester, United Kingdom, Knight moved to North America where he studied at Sir George Williams University in Montreal, Canada, and later Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C.. Knight was also an ordained minister, and during his acting career he also served as pastor at many churches. In 1965 he moved to California to pursue acting, … - Jane Haining
Jane Haining was a Church of Scotland missionary. Born in Dumfries, Scotland, in 1897, she volunteered for service in 1932 as a matron of the girls' home at the Scottish Mission School in Budapest, Hungary. At the outbreak of World War II she refused to return to Scotland as ordered, determined to remain with her girls. After the Nazi invasion of Hungary in 1944, she again refused to leave. Although she did not avoid incarceration by the Nazi regime, … - Samuel G. Havermale
Samuel G. Havermale (October 5, 1824 - January 31, 1904) was a notable Methodist minister and pioneer of Spokane. Born Oct 5, 1824 in Sharpsburg, Maryland, now the site where the Battle of Antietam was fought. His family moved in 1833 to Montgomery County, Ohio. He was educated there, and then went on to Rock River Seminary, in Mount Morris, Illinois. While there, on 1 Nov 1849 he married Elizabeth Goldthrop. - Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir
Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir (born 4 October 1965) is the vice-chairman of the Independence Party in Iceland. She has been the Minister of Education, Science and Culture since 31 December 2003 and a member of the Icelandic Parliament since 1999. Her father is Gunnar H. Eyjólfsson, an actor. Her husband is Kristján Arason, business administrator and manager at the Icelandic Kaupþing Bank, previously one of Iceland's most successful handball players, (23 July 1961). - Anthony Asquith
The Honourable Anthony Asquith was a respected English film director. Born in London, he was the son of Herbert Henry Asquith, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War I, and Margot Asquith. Within his family he was known as 'Puffin'. His first successful film was "Pygmalion" (1938) based on the George Bernard Shaw play. It featured Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller. His later films included "The Winslow Boy" (1948), … - Bryan Cranston
Bryan L. Cranston (born March 7 1956 in San Fernando Valley, California) is an Award-winning American actor, voice actor, writer and director, best known in his role as Hal, the father of the family in the Fox Network television situation comedy "Malcolm in the Middle." He also played Dr. Tim Whatley on "Seinfeld" and other roles in numerous movies and television programs. - Josip Broz Tito
original name JOSIP BROZ, Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. He was secretary-general (later president) of the Communist Party (League of Communists) of Yugoslavia (1939-80), supreme commander of the Yugoslav Partisans (1941-45) and the Yugoslav People's Army (1945-80), and marshal (1943-80), premier (1945-53), and president (1953-80) of Yugoslavia. Tito was the chief architect of the "second Yugoslavia," a socialist federation that lasted from World War II until 1991. - Marshall Herff Applewhite
Applewhite was known for his musical and dramatic talents. He sang opera and was a good public speaker, impressing people with his strong baritone voice and good diction. In the early 1960s, he tried for a while to make it as an actor in New York City, but he failed, according to an article in The New York Times. He then became an assistant professor of voice at the University of Alabama where served as choirmaster for several groups. - Joe Clark
Charles Joseph "Joe" Clark, PC, CC, AOE, MA, LLD (born June 5, 1939) was the sixteenth prime minister of Canada, from June 4, 1979, to March 3, 1980. Despite his relative inexperience, Clark rose quickly in federal politics, entering the House of Commons in the 1972 election and winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1976. He came to power in the 1979 election, defeating Pierre Trudeau and ending sixteen continuous years of Liberal rule, … - Ray Lonnen
Ray Lonnen (born 18 May 1940 in Bournemouth, Hampshire) is a British actor, perhaps best known for his role as Willie Caine (aka "Sandbagger 1") in the British cold-war spy drama "The Sandbaggers". He made early appearances in "The Power Game" (1966) and "The Fellows" (1967), then had a semi-regular role in the British crime drama "Z Cars" between 1972-77.
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