- Britney Spears
The youngest Spears stepped out on her own in 2002 as a cast member of Nickelodeon's All That . After becoming a fan favorite - like former All That stars Amanda Bynes and Nick Cannon - the then 13-year-old got her own series , Zoey 101 , which became the second highest-rated show among tweens, after TV juggernaut American Idol . - Leo Burnett
Leo Burnett (October 21, 1891 - June 7, 1971) was an advertising executive famous for creating such icons as the Jolly Green Giant, the Marlboro Man, Toucan Sam, Charlie the Tuna, Morris the Cat, the Pillsbury Doughboy, the 7up "Spot", and Tony the Tiger. - William Shatner
William Alan Shatner (born on March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor who gained fame for playing James Tiberius Kirk of the "USS Enterprise" in the television show "Star Trek" from 1966 to 1969 and in seven of the subsequent movies. Shatner has written a series of books chronicling his experiences playing James T. Kirk and being a part of "Star Trek". He also played the title role as veteran police sergeant "T.J. Hooker", from 1982 to 1986. - Silvio Berlusconi
(born September 29, 1936) is an Italian politician, entrepreneur, and media proprietor. He is the leader of the Forza Italia political movement, a centre-right party he founded in 1993 in Rome. Berlusconi has twice held office as prime minister of Italy, most recently from 2001 to 2006. Berlusconi is the founder and main shareholder of Fininvest, among the ten largest Italian privately-owned companies, operating in media and finance including three national TV channels. - Steve Rubel
Steve Rubel is a senior marketing strategist and one of the most influential bloggers in the world, according to Technorati. He currently serves as senior vice president in Edelman's me2revolution practice. Edelman is the largest independent global PR firm. Widely viewed as an expert on conversational marketing, Rubel is often sought out as a speaker and appears frequently in the press. He has been named to several prestigious lists, including: Media Magazine's Media 100, the . . . - Ernie Schenck
Ernie Schenck is one of the most highly awarded and influential names in advertising and has worked as a writer, creative director and freelance creative consultant for some of the most prestigious ad agencies in the United States. Twice, he has been named to the AdWeek All Star Creative Team. An Emmy Award nominee, he has won every major award in the business and is one of the only American creative people ever to be named Print Copywriter of the Year in Great Britain. - John Singleton
John Singleton AM is an Australian entrepreneur. He was born in Sydney in 1942 and educated at Fort Street High School, New South Wales. Singleton, known as "Singo", commenced a career in advertising in the 1960s before founding with others the Sydney agency Strauss, Palmer and Singleton, McAllan (SPASM) which was later sold to the US Doyle Dane Bernbach network in the early 1970s. - David Lachapelle
David LaChapelle (born March 11, 1963 Fairfield, Connecticut, United States) is a photographer and director who works in the fields of fashion, advertising, and fine art photography, and is noted for his surreal, unique and often humorous style. - David Williams
David Williams (June 8 1926 - September 26 2003) was an advertising executive who became a crime writer after suffering a stroke. Williams was born in Bridgend in South Wales and studied at the Hereford Cathedral School and St John's College, Oxford, where he read modern history. His university studies were interrupted by World War II when Williams spent three years as an officer in the Royal Navy. He started in advertising as a medical copywriter, … - Madonna
Madonna Louise Ciccone Ritchie (born August 16 1958), better known as Madonna, is an American dance-pop singer-songwriter, record and film producer, dancer, actress, author and fashion icon. She is noted for her ambitious music videos and stage performances as well as using political, sexual, and religious themes in her work. In 2000, The Guinness World Records listed Madonna as the most successful female recording artist of all time, … - Terry Richardson
Terry Richardson (born 1965) is an American photographer. Richardson was born in New York City, raised in Hollywood, California, and is the son of fashion photographer Bob Richardson. Richardson began photographing his environment while attending Hollywood High School and playing in a punk rock band. He has shot advertisements for fashion designers, including Gucci, Levi's, Hugo Boss, Anna Molinari, Baby Phat, Matsuda, and Sisley. - Richard Prince
Richard Prince is an American painter and photographer. His works have often been the subject of debates within the art world. Trained as a figure painter, Prince began creating collages containing photographs in 1975. His image, ‘Untitled (Cowboy), a rephotograph constructed from cigarette advertisements, was the first ‘photograph’ to raise more than $1 million at auction when it was sold at Christie's New York in 2005. - Rich Johnston
Rich Johnston (born 21st November 1972, in Gloucester, England) is an online columnist who writes about the comic book industry. Johnston grew up in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, and later attended the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne where he studied Politics. Johnston is based in Soho, London, and works as an advertising copywriter. He currently lives in Kingston Vale, London, with his wife, Janice Hodgson, and their young daughter, Eve Johnston. - Dave Johnson
Dave Johnson is an American announcer and sportscaster, best known for his work in horse racing with ABC Sports and at various race tracks in New York and New Jersey. His signature line — "And "down" the stretch they come!" — is instantly recognizable throughout the sport, and often imitated by comedians, notably David Letterman. From 1972 to 1977, Johnson was the public address announcer for the tracks of the New York Racing Association. - Donny Deutsch
Donald Jay "Donny" Deutsch (born November 22, 1957 in Queens, New York) is an advertising executive and talk show host. Deutsch is the chairman of Deutsch, Inc., a $2.7 billion marketing company founded by his father that is the 10th-largest U.S. agency. In 2000, Donny sold his agency to the Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG) for a reported $300 million. He is also the managing partner of Deutsch Open City, an independent production company. - Oscar Mayer
Oscar Mayer is an American meat and cold cut production company, now owned by Kraft Foods, known for its hot dogs, bologna, bacon and Lunchables products. Bavarian immigrant Oscar Ferdinand Mayer (March 29, 1859-March 11, 1955) began working at a meat market in Detroit, Michigan, and later in Chicago, Illinois. In 1883 in Chicago, Oscar Mayer leased the Kolling Meat Market along with his brother, Gottfried Mayer. - Matt Johnson
Matt Johnson (born 15 August 1961, in London, England) is the founder and only constant member of the multimedia band, The The. Matt Johnson / The The rose out of the post-punk industrial music scene of late 1970s Britain. Over the years he has proven himself a prolific songwriter on various subjects. On 1986's "Heartland (51st State of the USA)" he railed against the Americanisation of the UK. - Anthony Williams
Anthony Williams is a Welsh comic book artist. He broke into comics at Marvel UK, drawing for the series "Action Force," "The Real Ghostbusters" and "Transformers", among others. Subsequent British work has included the venerable science fiction comic "2000 AD", for which he has drawn features including "Kola Commandos," "Mean Arena", "PJ Maybe" and "Robo-Hunter". - John Ward
John Ward is a former radio broadcaster at the University of Tennessee from 1968 until 1999. Ward received a law degree in 1954 at the University of Tennessee's main campus in Knoxville. Shortly after, he decided to go into radio and advertising. Ward's first broadcast of a UT basketball game came in 1958. Shortly after, he joined the Army. After returning to Knoxville, Ward went to work at an advertising agency. - Alan Parker
Sir Alan William Parker, CBE, (born February 14,1944) is an English film director, producer, writer, and actor. He has been active in both the British film industry as well as in Hollywood. He is a founding member of the Director's Guild of Great Britain. Born into a working class family in Stockton, Teesside, Parker started out as a copywriter for advertising agencies in the 1960s and 1970s and later began to write his own television commercial scripts. - David Kennedy
David Kennedy (born 1940) is an American advertising executive who co-founded Wieden+Kennedy. He and Dan Wieden were listed as number 22 on the "Advertising Age" 100 ad people of the 20th century. Kennedy graduated from University of Colorado at Boulder with a fine art degree. During the 1960s and 70s he worked for Leo Burnett Worldwide and Young & Rubicam in Chicago. He met Wieden at McCann-Erickson while working on the Nike, Inc. account in 1980. - Lea Thompson
Lea Katherine Thompson (born May 31, 1961, in Rochester, Minnesota) is an American actress - Tom Freston
Thomas E. Freston (born 22 November 1945) is an American television executive who most recently served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the post-split Viacom, until his resignation on September 5, 2006. Freston began his career in the field of advertising, but later moved to New Delhi, where he ran a textile and clothing business for eight years. - Jean Kilbourne
Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D. (born January 4, 1943) is a social theorist known for her video documentaries on the subject of alcohol and tobacco advertising, and the representation of women in advertising. She is a graduate of Wellesley College. Among her lectures are "Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women", "Still Killing Us Softly", and "Killing Us Softly 3". With Sut Jhally she produced several videos: * Killing Us Softly 3 (1999), … - Tony Kaye
Tony Kaye (born 1952, UK) is an advertising and film director. In a controversy regarding his film "American History X", Kaye attempted to remove his name from the credits, preferring instead to invoke the pseudonym Alan Smithee. After New Line told Kaye he couldn't use the Alan Smithee pseudonym and to pick a different name, he chose Humpty Dumpty. - Brian Baker
Brian Edward Baker (born July 16, 1967, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American actor best known for his recurring role as a trenchcoated spokesman in Sprint's television commercials. Baker began his acting career at the age of eleven as a member of a now-defunct community film enthusiast club known as "Cinekyd", based in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, where youngsters acted in, directed, edited, and produced amateur movies under adult supervision. - Charles Saatchi
Charles Saatchi (born June 9, 1943) was the co-founder with his brother Maurice of the global advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi, which became the world's biggest before the brothers were forced out of their own company in 1995. In the same year the Saatchi brothers formed a new agency called M&C Saatchi. Many large clients followed, and their new agency quickly overtook their ex agency in Britain's top ten. - Billy Davis
Roquel Billy Davis (July 11 1932 - September 2 2004) of Detroit was an American songwriter, record producer, and singer. Davis is best known as a songwriter for a number of soul musicians label, and as a writer/producer of commercial jingles, mostly for Coca-Cola. Early in his career, Davis worked with an early version of The Four Tops called "The Four Aims", which included his cousin Lawrence Payton. - John Wanamaker
John Wanamaker (July 11, 1838 - December 12, 1922) was a United States businessman, civic and political figure, considered the father of modern advertising. Wanamaker was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. - Michael Newman
Michael Newman (born 1957) was a Los Angeles County lifeguard for 20 years and a firefighter. Newman started his career as a lifeguard at the age of 10 when he joined the junior lifeguards. He excelled at swimming and water sports and attended Pacific Palisades High School. He later attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he majored in advertising. Newman took the firefighter's exam while waiting to be hired as a lifeguard. - Andrea James
Andrea Jean James (born January 16, 1967), is an American transsexual woman, film producer, screenwriter, actress, LGBT rights activist, and consumer activist. - Lawrence Kasdan
Lawrence Kasdan (born 14 January, 1949, Miami, Florida) is an American movie producer, director and screenwriter. Raised in Morgantown, West Virginia, where he graduated from Morgantown High School in 1966, he went on to attend the University of Michigan as an education major. After working as a freelance advertising copywriter, Kasdan's introduction into the film business came in the mid-1970s when he sold his script for "The Bodyguard" to Warner Bros. - Tony Schwartz
Anthony Schwartz, also known as the "wizard of sound," (born in New York City August 19, 1923) is an American sound archivist and advertising creator. He is best known for creating the controversial Daisy Girl television ad for the 1964 Lyndon Johnson campaign. Lesser known is his anti-tobacco ad, which the American Cancer Society credits with ending the Tobacco industry's television and radio advertising. - Hal Riney
Hal Riney (born 1932) is an American advertising executive and founder of Publicis & Hal Riney. Riney was named number 30 on the "Advertising Age" 100 people of the 20th century. He was inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame in 2001. Riney grew up in Longview, Washington. He graduated from the University of Washington in 1954. After serving two years in the United States Army doing public relations in Italy, he joined BBDO San Francisco, … - Wally Wood
Wallace Allan Wood was an American comic book writer, artist and independent publisher, best known for his work in EC Comics and "Mad". Although much of his early professional artwork is signed Wallace Wood, he became known as Wally Wood, a name he claimed to dislike. Within the comics community, he was also known as Woody, a name he sometimes used as a signature. - Charles Atlas
Charles Atlas, “self-made man”, trained himself to develop his body from that of a “scrawny weakling”, eventually becoming the most popular muscleman of his day. His company, Charles Atlas, Ltd., (founded 1929 and continuing today) markets a fitness program for the “97-pound weakling”, a registered trademark. Born Angelino Siciliano in Acri, in Calabria, Italy, he moved to Brooklyn, New York, at a young age. - Josh Linkner
Josh Linkner is founder and CEO of ePrize, an interactive promotion agency that develops and carries out online promotions, incorporating online sweepstakes, instant-win games, interactive loyalty programs, online trivia games and other promotions that directly connect individual consumers with company Web sites. As a pioneer in interactive marketing, he's been involved in the development of thousands of digital marketing strategies and e-commerce solutions over the last 15 years. - Anthony Stewart Head
Anthony Head (born 20 February, 1954) is an English actor and musician who has appeared in theatre, television and films. He is most widely known for his role as Rupert Giles in the American television drama series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", as the Prime Minister in the British comedy show "Little Britain", as Dr. - Joseph Kahn
Joseph Kahn (born October 12, 1972) in Jersey Village, Texas (a suburb of Houston) is a notable music video, advertising, and feature film director. Kahn has worked with diverse artists such as Muse, Britney Spears, Kelly Clarkson, Backstreet Boys, U2, The Chemical Brothers, Blink 182, Eminem, TLC, Mariah Carey, Moby, George Michael, KoRn, Janet Jackson, Black Eyed Peas, Destiny's Child, and many more. Kahn has collected multiple Music Video Production awards. - Bert Stern
Bertram Stern (born 3 October 1929) is an American fashion and celebrity portrait photographer. His best known work is arguably a collection of 2,500 photographs taken of Marilyn Monroe over a three day period, six weeks before her death, taken for "Vogue". Stern published "Marilyn Monroe: The Complete Last Sitting" in 1992.
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