- Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24 1955) is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. He is currently the largest Disney shareholder and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries. Jobs' history in business has contributed greatly to the mythos of the quirky, individualistic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, … - Malcolm X
Malcolm X (born Malcolm Little; May 19, 1925 - February 21, 1965), also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, was an American Black Muslim minister and spokesman for the Nation of Islam. After leaving the Nation of Islam in 1964, he went on a pilgrimage to Mecca and became a Sunni Muslim; he also founded the Muslim Mosque, Inc. and the Organization of Afro-American Unity. - Dave Thomas
Rex David "Dave" Thomas (July 2, 1932 - January 8, 2002) was an American businessman and philanthropist. Thomas was the founder and chief executive officer of Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers, a fast-food restaurant chain specializing in hamburgers. He is also known for appearing in more than 800 commercial advertisements for the chain from 1989 to 2002-more than any other person in television history. - Nicole Richie
Nicole Camille Richie (born September 21, 1981) is an American socialite, actress, author, and singer. The adopted daughter of Lionel Richie, she is known for her role in the reality show "The Simple Life" and her turbulent personal life. - Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. was the 38th President (1974–1977), and 40th Vice President (1973–1974) of the United States. Ford was the first person appointed to the vice presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment. Upon succession to the presidency, Ford became the only person to hold that office without having been elected either President or Vice President. - Bo Diddley
Bo Diddley (born December 30, 1928) aka "The Originator" of Rock 'N' Roll, is an influential American rock and roll singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is often cited as the key figure in the transition of blues into rock and roll, by introducing more insistent, driving rhythms and a hard edged guitar sound. He is also remembered for his characteristic rectangular-shaped guitar. - Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 - October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of the macabre and mystery, Poe was one of the early American practitioners of the short story and a progenitor of detective fiction and crime fiction. He is also credited with contributing to the emergent science fiction genre. Poe died at the age of 40. - Jean Genet
Jean Genet (–), was a prominent, controversial French writer and later political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal; later in life, Genet wrote novels, plays, poems, and essays, including "Querelle de Brest", "The Thief's Journal", "Our Lady of the Flowers", "The Balcony", "The Blacks" and "The Maids". - Georges Perec
Georges Perec (7 March 1936 - 3 March 1982) was a 20th-century French Jewish novelist, filmmaker, and essayist - a member of the Oulipo group and considered by many to be one of the most important authors of the post-World War II era. - Antwone Fisher
Antwone Quenton Fisher (born August 3 1959 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American author, screenwriter, and film producer. - Masha Allen
Masha Allen (born Мария Николаевна Яшенкова, (Russian:"Mariya Nikolaevna Yashenkova", 1992; Novoshakhtinsk, Russia)) is a girl previously known only as Disney World Girl, Internet Girl or Internet Porn Girl. She has appeared in almost 400 sexually explicit images that are distributed on the Internet worldwide. For a long time, police feared she was still being abused in the manner depicted. - Shania Twain
Shania Twain, OC (born Eilleen Regina Edwards, August 28, 1965, Windsor, Ontario) is a Canadian singer and songwriter in the country and pop music genres. Her third album "Come on Over" is the biggest-selling album of all time by a female artist, and the best-selling album in the history of country music. She is the only female artist to have three albums certified Diamond by the RIAA, … - Newt Gingrich
Newton Leroy Gingrich (born June 17, 1943), Ph.D., served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. In 1995, "Time" magazine selected him as the Man of the Year for his role in leading the Republican Revolution in the House, ending 40 years of Democratic Party majorities in that body. During his tenure as Speaker he represented the public face of the Republican opposition to Bill Clinton. - Toby Dawson
Toby Dawson (Korean: 김수철, Kim Soo-cheol, born 김봉석, Kim Bong-seok November 30, 1978 in Pusan, South Korea) is an American mogul skier. He won a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics. - A. M. Homes
Amy M. Homes (born 1961) is an American fiction writer known for her controversial and unusual stories, most notably "The End of Alice" (1996), a novel about a convicted child molester and murderer. She is also the author of the novels "This Book Will Save Your Life" (2006), "Music for Torching" (1999), "In a Country of Mothers" (1993), and "Jack" (1989), … - Kristin Davis
Kristin Landen Davis (also listed as Kristin Lee Davis) (born February 23 or February 24, 1965 depending on the source) is an American Golden Globe and Emmy award-nominated actress best known for the role of Charlotte York on HBO's "Sex and the City". - Sarah McLachlan
Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC (born January 28, 1968) is a Grammy-winning Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. She is known for the emotional sound of her ballads, some of her most popular songs include "Angel", "Building a Mystery", "Adia", "Possession", "Fallen", "I Will Remember You", and "World on Fire". Her best-selling album to date is "Surfacing", for which she won four Juno Awards and two Grammy Awards. - Faith Hill
Audrey Faith Perry McGraw, known professionally by her first married name Faith Hill (born September 21, 1967), is an American country singer, known for her commercial success as well as her marriage to fellow country singer Tim McGraw. Hill's "soulful and rasping voice" and talent for picking songs have helped her to sell over 30 million records and accumulate 11 number one singles on the Country charts. - Larry Ellison
Lawrence Joseph Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is the co-founder and CEO of Oracle Corporation, a major database software company. - Ian Smith
Ian Smith (born June 19 1938) is an Australian soap opera character actor and television scriptwriter, best known today for his long-running role as the caring, kindly coffee shop owner Harold Bishop in Network Ten's long running serial "Neighbours". Smith had previously acted in guest roles in drama series such as the Crawford Productions police dramas "Homicide", "Division 4" and "Matlock Police", … - Andy Dick
Andrew Dick (born December 21, 1965) is an American comedian, actor, and voice artist best known for his roles on the sitcoms "NewsRadio", "The Andy Dick Show" and "Less Than Perfect". He also provided voiceovers in "The Lion King II: Simba's Pride", "Hoodwinked!", and "Happily N'Ever After". - Edward Albee
Edward G. (Woody) Connette, Pro-bono Legal Counsel - Michael Bay
Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965) is an American film director and producer. Bay has achieved financial success with such movies as "Transformers", "Armageddon", "The Rock", "Pearl Harbor", "Bad Boys", and "Bad Boys II". Bay is also one of the members of the LA music video production company Propaganda Films. - Robert Byrd
Robert Carlyle Byrd (born November 20 1917) is the senior United States Senator from West Virginia and a member of the Democratic Party. Byrd has held the office since January 3 1959, making him the longest-serving member of the Senate in history. He is also currently the longest-serving and oldest member of the United States Congress. Byrd is currently President "pro tempore" of the United States Senate of the 110th United States Congress, … - Alexander The Great
Alexander the Great (Greek:, "Megas Alexandros"; July 20 356 BC - June 10 323 BC), also known as Alexander III, was an Ancient Greek king of Macedon (336-323 BC). He was one of the most successful military commanders in history, and was undefeated in battle. By his death, he conquered most of the world known to the ancient Greeks. Following the unification of the multiple city-states of ancient Greece under the rule of his father, … - Richard Burton
Richard Burton CBE (November 10 1925 - August 5 1984) was a Welsh actor. He was at one time the highest-paid actor in Hollywood.. Known for his distinctive voice, he was nominated seven times for Academy Awards for acting, yet never won. - Kt Tunstall
Kate "KT" Tunstall (born June 23, 1975) is a Grammy-nominated, BRIT Award-winning singer/songwriter from St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. - Darryl McDaniels
Darryl "D.M.C." Matthews McDaniels (birth name Darryl Lovelace) b. May 31, 1964 in Harlem, Manhattan, New York, USA, is one of the pioneers of hip hop culture and founding members of the legendary hip hop group Run-D.M.C.. He went to St. John's University in New York City as he proudly proclaimed in Run-D.M.C.'s hit single "Sucker MC's." McDaniels was one of the lead vocalists of the group, along with co-founder and friend Joseph "Run" Simmons. - Tim Green
Tim Green (b. December 16, 1963 in Oswego, NY) is a former defensive end with the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League, a commentator for National Public Radio and was formerly the host of "A Current Affair" on Fox. He graduated from Syracuse University in 1986 with a degree in business administration, and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2002. He was the Falcons' first-round draft selection in 1986 and played for them through 1993. - Surya Bonaly
Surya Bonaly (born 15 December, 1973) is a professional figure skater. Bonaly represented France as a competitive skater, but is now also a United States citizen. - Ray Liotta
Intense is the word for Ray Liotta. He specializes in psychopathic characters who hide behind a cultivated charm. Even in his nice guy roles in Field of Dreams (1989) and Operation Dumbo Drop (1995), you get the impression that something is smoldering inside of him. Liotta maintains a steady stream of work, completing multiple projects per year. - Moses
Moses (Arabic: موسىٰ, "; Ge'ez: ሙሴ "Musse) was an early Biblical Hebrew religious leader, lawgiver, prophet, military leader and historian. Much of the material in the Torah is traditionally attributed to Moses. He is also an important prophet in Islam and the Bahá'í Faith. According to the book of Exodus, Moses was born to a Hebrew mother who hid him when a Pharaoh ordered all newborn Hebrew boys to be killed, … - Charlotte Church
Charlotte Church (born Charlotte Maria Reed on 21 February 1986) is a Welsh pop singer and television presenter who rose to international fame in childhood as a popular classical singer. To date, she has sold 10 million albums worldwide. - Roman Abramovich
Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich (born 24 October 1966 in Saratov, Russia) is a Russian oil billionaire and the main owner of private investment company Millhouse Capital, referred to as one of the Russian oligarchs. According to the 2006 "Forbes" magazine, as of 13 February 2006, he had a net worth of $18.2 billion, and according to Russian "Finance" magazine, as of January 2007, his fortune was $21.0 billion. - Nancy Reagan
Nancy Davis Reagan (born Anne Frances Robbins on July 6, 1921) is the widow of former United States President Ronald Reagan and was First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Reagan was born in New York in 1921 and moved to California in the 1940s, where she became an actress before meeting her husband, Ronald Reagan. They married in 1952, and had two children. Reagan became First Lady of California in 1967 with her husband's gubernatorial victory, … - Bryan Singer
Bryan Singer (born September 17 1965) is an American film director. Singer won critical acclaim for his work on "The Usual Suspects", and is especially popular among fans of the sci-fi and comic book genres, for his work on the first two "X-Men" films and "Superman Returns". - Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy dedicated websites *Leo Tolstoy museum in Yasnaya Polyana *State Leo Tolstoy Museum in Moscow Biographies and critiques *Illustrated Biography online at University of Virginia *Tolstoy and Popular Literature - Several scientific papers from the University of Minnesota *Brief bio *Leo Tolstoy's Life - Tolstoy's personal, professional and world event timeline, and synopsis of his life from Masterpiece Theatre. - Christina Crawford
</gallery>;Christina Crawford is an American actress and writer, best known as the author of Mommie Dearest, an exposé of the systematic child abuse committed by her mother, Joan Crawford. - Steve Austin
Steven James Williams (born Steven Anderson on December 18, 1964) better known by his ring name "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, is an American actor and former professional wrestler. After debuting in 1989, Austin wrestled for promotions such as World Championship Wrestling, Extreme Championship Wrestling and World Wrestling Entertainment. Austin was forced to retire from the ring in 2003 due to neck, … - Kristin Chenoweth
Kristin Chenoweth (born Kristi Dawn Chenoweth on July 24, 1968) is an American singer and Tony Award-winning American musical theatre, film, and television actress. Chenoweth is a person of small stature (four feet, eleven inches tall and 95 pounds) and has a distinctive speaking voice; in "FHM's" March 2006 issue, she compared her voice to that of Betty Boop. Chenoweth is a coloratura soprano.
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