- Jessica Alba
Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981) is an American actress. Alba rose to prominence with the television series Dark Angel, then expanding her résumé to film, predominantly within the confines of action and comedy. Alba appears frequently on the "Hot 100" section of Maxim and was voted AskMen.com's number one on their list of "99 Most Desirable Women" in 2006, as well as "Sexiest Woman in the World" by FHM in 2007. - Kirsten Dunst
Kirsten Caroline Dunst (born April 30, 1982) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress, known for her roles in "Interview with the Vampire", "The Virgin Suicides", "Marie Antoinette", and "Bring It On", as well as Mary Jane Watson in the "Spider-Man" film series. - Robert Duvall
Robert Selden Duvall (born January 5, 1931) is an Academy Award and four-time Golden Globe winning American film actor and director. - 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. - George C. Scott
George Campbell Scott (October 18, 1927 - September 22,1999) was a stage and film actor, director, and producer. He was best known for his Academy Award-winning portrayal of General George S. Patton Jr. in the film "Patton", as well as for his flamboyant performance as General Buck Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb". - Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 - April 25, 1995) was an Academy Award-winning American film and stage actress and singer. In a film career spanning fifty years she made a total of seventy-three films, and is now principally celebrated for her role as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre. - Vincent de Paul
Saint Vincent de Paul (April 24, 1581 - September 27, 1660) was born at Pouy, Landes, Gascony, France to a peasant family. His feast was formerly kept on July 19, but is now observed on September 27 - the day of his death. He studied humanities at Dax with the Cordeliers and he graduated in theology at Toulouse. Vincent de Paul was ordained in 1600, remaining in Toulouse until he went to Marseille for an inheritance. - Milton Berle
Milton Berle (July 12, 1908 - March 27, 2002) was an Emmy-winning American comedian who was born Milton Berlinger. As the manic host of NBC's "Texaco Star Theater" (1948-1955), he was the first major star of television. He became known as Uncle Miltie to millions during TV's golden age. - Alfre Woodard
Alfre Ette Woodard (born November 8, 1952) is an acclaimed Academy Award-nominated, Emmy, SAG, and Golden Globe-winning American actress. - William Golding
Sir William Gerald Golding (19 September 1911 - 19 June 1993) was a British novelist, poet and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1983), best known for his novel "Lord of the Flies". He was also awarded the Booker Prize for literature in 1980, for his novel "Rites of Passage," the first book of the trilogy "To the Ends of the Earth". - 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, … - Thor Heyerdahl
Thor Heyerdahl (October 6, 1914 Larvik, Norway - April 18, 2002 Colla Micheri, Italy) was a Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer with a scientific background in zoology and geography. Heyerdahl became famous for his Kon-Tiki Expedition in which he sailed by raft 4,300 miles (7,000 km) from South America to the Tuamotu Islands. - Anna May Wong
Anna May Wong (January 3, 1905 - February 2, 1961) was the first notable Chinese American Hollywood actress. Born Wong Liu Tsong in Los Angeles, California, a daughter of a laundryman, she began playing bit parts as a teenager in the early days of Hollywood. - Robert K. Merton
Robert King Merton was a distinguished American sociologist perhaps best known for having coined the phrase "self-fulfilling prophecy." He also coined many other phrases that have gone into everyday use, such as "role model" and "unintended consequences". He spent most of his career teaching at Columbia University, where he attained the rank of University Professor. It is a popular misconception that Robert K. Merton was one of Talcott Parsons’ students. - Elizabeth Taylor
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor DBE (born February 27 1932) is an iconic two-time Academy Award-winning British-American actress. Her eyes are sometimes said to be violet color, and at least one source refers to this suggested anomaly as her "trademark" violet eyes. It is further suggested, though photos do not support the claim, that her eyes are framed by a "double row" of eyelashes. - Dalton Trumbo
Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 - September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist, and a member of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who refused to testify before the 1947 House Un-American Activities Committee about alleged communist involvement. Born in Montrose, Colorado, Trumbo attended the University of Colorado for two years. The central fountain at the University was named in his honor in the mid-1990s. - Mae Jemison
Essence Award, Essence magazine, 1988; named Gamma Sigma Gamma Woman of the Year,1990; honorary doctorate, Lincoln University 1991; Ebony Black Achievement Award, 1992; an alternative public school in Detroit was named The Mae C. Jemison Academy, 1992; Alpha Kappa Alpha, honorary member. By the time she was thirty-one, Mae Jemison had received a double major in Chemical Engineering and African-American studies and had served as a doctor in the Peace Corps in Liberia and Sierra Leone. - Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford (April 8, 1892 - May 29, 1979) was an Oscar-winning Canadian motion picture star and co-founder of United Artists in 1919. She was known as "America's Sweetheart," "Little Mary" and "the girl with the curls." She was one of the first Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood and one of film's greatest pioneers. Her influence in the development of film acting was enormous. Because her international fame was triggered by moving images, … - Jean Stapleton
Jean Stapleton (born Jeanne Murray on January 19, 1923 in New York City) is an American actress of stage, television and film. She is best known for her portrayal of Edith Bunker, the long-suffering, yet devoted wife of Archie Bunker (played by Carroll O'Connor) and mother of Gloria Bunker Stivic (played by Sally Struthers), … - Edith Evans
Dame Edith Mary Evans DBE (8 February 1888-14 October 1976) was an Academy Award nominated and Golden Globe award winning actress. Born in London, the daughter of Edward Evans, a civil servant, and his wife, Caroline Ellen Foster. She was educated at St Michael's Church of England School, Pimlico, before being apprenticed at the age of 15 in 1903 as a milliner. - Markie Post
Marjorie Armstrong Post is an actress, best known for her 1985–1992 role as Christine Sullivan on the NBC sitcom "Night Court", and as bail bonds contractor Terri in "The Fall Guy" from 1982 to 1985. - Horton Foote
Horton Foote (born March 14,1916 in Wharton, Texas), is a two-time Academy Award and one-time Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated American author and playwright. Perhaps his best known work is his screenplay for "To Kill a Mockingbird". - Colleen Dewhurst
Colleen Dewhurst was a Canadian actress known for playing Marilla Cuthbert in the various "Anne of Green Gables" productions from Sullivan Entertainment. - Kenny Baker
Kenneth Laurence "Kenny" Baker was an American singer/actor who first gained notice as the featured singer on Jack Benny's radio shows during the 1930s. At the height of his radio fame, and after leaving the Benny show in 1939 (succeeded by Dennis Day, whose lilting tenor was similar to Baker's), he appeared in seventeen film musicals ("At the Circus", … - Tim Curry
Timothy James Curry (born April 19, 1946) is an English actor, singer and composer perhaps best known for his role as mad scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (1975). He also had an earlier career as a rock musician. His list of roles is extensive, in both TV and movies, live-action and voice-acting for animated features, and it is notable that he almost always plays a villain of one kind or another. - Georgia Engel
Georgia Bright Engel (born July 28, 1948, in Washington, D.C.) is an American film and television actress. She is a graduate of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She is probably best known as Georgette Franklin Baxter from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," on which Engel appeared from 1972 until the show ended in 1977. The role won her two Emmy nominations. - Mark Jensen
Mark Jensen is an Australian actor based in Sydney born 1959. Working mainly in film and television he has won a Best Actor Award for a short film 'Bobsy Boys'. Award winning feature films include '2 Door Mansion', Best Comedy Moondance International Film Festival, 2006; As the lead role Michael in the feature 'Eloise' Most Popular Film Ausfest 2002; Platinum Award for 'Sixth Scent' Best Romantic Comedy at Worldfest, Texas; 'Blame' multiple awards. - Jean del Val
Jean Del Val was a French-born actor. He has also been credited as Jean Gauthier and Jean Gautier. He has played roles during the Hollywood silent era, beginning with "The Fortunes of Fifi" in 1917. During the early days of talkies he served as a translator and vocal coach for French language versions of American-made films. The classic 1942 film "Casablanca" featured Jean in the limited role as an announcer for a French radio station. - Lewis Collins
Lewis Collins (born 27 May, 1946 in Bidston, Birkenhead, Cheshire) is an English actor. He is best known for his tough-guy role as Bodie in "The Professionals." - Jean Harlow
Jean Harlow (b. Harlean Harlow Carpenter, March 3, 1911 - June 7, 1937) was an American film actress and top sex symbol of the 1930s. Known as the "Platinum Blonde" for her famous hair, Harlow starred in several films mainly designed to showcase her magnetic sex appeal and strong screen presence before transitioning to more developed roles and achieving massive fame under contract to MGM. Known as "The Baby" to family and close friends, … - Tsutomu Shimomura
is a Japanese-American scientist and computer security expert based in the United States, who gained fame when he, together with computer journalist John Markoff, tracked down and helped the FBI arrest hacker Kevin Mitnick. "Takedown", his 1996 book on the subject, was later adapted for the screen in "Takedown" in 2000. - Oleg Taktarov
Oleg Taktarov (June 25, 1968) is a Russian martial artist. He is a practitioner of Sambo and Judo and has competed in mixed martial arts in the UFC and PRIDE. Taktarov last fought a professional MMA match in 1998. Taktarov's MMA record from 1995 to 1998 was 11-5-2. He never tapped or was submitted in a MMA match. Taktarov is remembered for being calm during fights and for using a variety of rarely seen, acrobatic take-down moves. - John Bluthal
John Bluthal (born 1929) is a film and television actor, mostly in comedy. Born in Galicia, Poland, he emigrated to Australia with his family in 1938 at the age of ten. He studied drama at the University of Melbourne, and visited England, during which time he appeared in pantomime. He worked in repertory theatre in Melbourne and was also involved in broadcasting and schools broadcasting. He appeared in drama on ABC radio, and variety, … - Spalding Gray
Spalding Gray was an American actor, screenwriter and playwright. Born in Barrington, Rhode Island, he was best known for his performance monologues, which address events from his own life in a style characterised by humor, paranoia and acute self-consciousness. - Magnus Pyke
Dr. Magnus Pyke (29 December, 1908 - 19 October, 1992) was a British scientist and media figure, who, although apparently quite eccentric and playing up to the mad scientist stereotype, succeeded in explaining science to a lay audience. He was known for his enthusiastic way of waving his arms around as he spoke. Born in London and educated at St Paul's School, he then moved to Canada for seven years and studied agriculture at McGill University, … - Kenneth Udut
offers Naples Online Marketing, Collier County's Electronic Village at http://free.naplesplus.us also animal trapping company, Excel guru, researcher, composer, fascinated by the interconnected nature of all things, amateur scientist. - Leatrice Joy
Leatrice Joy (November 7, 1893 - May 13, 1985) was an American film actress best known for her career in the early silent film era. - Kitty Cheatham
Katherine "Kitty" Cheatman (1864 - January 5, 1946) was an American singer and actor. She was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. Her father, Richard Boone Cheatham, was a Tennessee politician who was the mayor of Nashville from 1860 to 1862, and her mother was Frances Ann Bugg. Cheatham began her career in music at age 14 by performing at First Presbyterian Church in Nashville. She later went on to study in New York, Paris, and Berlin. - Peter Ladefoged
Peter Nielsen Ladefoged was an English-American linguist and phonetician who traveled the world to document the distinct sounds of endangered languages and pioneered ways to collect and study data. He was active at the universities of Edinburgh, Scotland and Ibadan, Nigeria 1953-61. At Edinburgh he studied phonetics with David Abercrombie, who himself had studied with Daniel Jones and was thus connected to Henry Sweet. - Corinne Griffith
Corinne Griffith (1895 - 1979) was a Hollywood actress who is believed to have been born in Texarkana, Texas, on November 24, 1895. Always one of the more private and mysterious of stars, Griffith's actual year and even birthday are widely disputed with conflicting information throughout her career. 1894 and 1898 are often cited, as is the birthdate of November 21.
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