- America Georgine Ferrera
Nothing against the 818, says the star of TV's "Ugly Betty," who grew up in Woodland Hills, Calif., and attended El Camino Real High School, but she had plans. "The Valley reminds me of my childhood," says Ferrera, who appears in the just-released film "Under the Same Moon." "I had a really rough time through high school. I don't think I liked myself very much. High school is a very hard place to like yourself. - Amadeo Giannini
Amadeo Peter Giannini (1870-1949), born in San Jose, California, was one of the founders of the Bank of America. Giannini's parents were Italian, from Liguria near Genoa, immigrants to the United States. He attended Heald College in San Francisco, California. Giannini opened the Bank of Italy in a former San Francisco saloon on 17 October, 1904. Deposits on that first day totaled $8,780. An early difficulty to overcome was the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. - George Burnham
George Burnham (December 28, 1868-June 28, 1939) was a banker and Republican politician from San Diego, California. Burnham was born 1868 in London, England to James and Maria Ann Burnham. He immigrated in 1881 to the United States with his parents, who settled in Spring Valley, Minnesota. He attended public schools in London and Minnesota. Burnham worked as a clerk 1884-1886, then moved to Jackson, Minnesota in 1887 where he entered the retail shoe business. - Walter E. Massey
Dr. Walter E. Massey, an American educator, physicist, and business leader, was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi April 5 1938. Massey graduated from Morehouse College in 1958 and received his PhD from Washington University in St. Louis. He served as the ninth president of Morehouse College from 1995 to 2007. Massey has served as the director of the National Science Foundation under George H. W. Bush and Senior Provost of the University of California System. - Jerre Noe
Jerre Noe (February 1, 1923 - November 12, 2005) was an American computer scientist. In the 1950s, he led the technical team for the ERMA project, the Bank of America's first venture into computerized banking. In 1968 he became the first chair of the University of Washington's Computer Science Group, which later evolved into the Computer Science and Engineering Department. - Stephanie Dimarco
Stephanie DiMarco is the Founder, CEO and President of Advent Software, a $935 million company that offers integrated software solutions for automating and integrating data and work flows across investment management organizations. Prior to founding Advent Software, DiMarco worked in the investment industry as a financial analyst and portfolio manager at Bank of America, Summit Investments, and Cole Financial Group. - Michael Moore
Michael Francis Moore (born April 23 1954) is an Academy Award-winning American director and producer of "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Bowling for Columbine", two of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time. He is a vocal critic of globalization, large corporations, gun violence, the Iraq War, U.S. President George W. Bush and the American health care system. In 2005 Time magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people. - John Wayne
John Wayne (May 26, 1907 - June 11, 1979) was an iconic, Academy Award-winning, American film actor. He epitomized ruggedly individualistic masculinity, and has become an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive voice, walk and height. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Wayne thirteenth among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. A Harris Poll released in 2007 placed Wayne third among America's favorite film stars, … - John H. N. Fisher
John H. N. Fisher is a venture capitalist, best known for being a managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), with Timothy C. "Tim" Draper, and Steven "Steve" Jurvetson. He is also currently on the boards of companies CMI Marketing, Hands On Mobile (formerly MFORMA), Raydiance, Inc., Selectica, and Visto. He currently lives in San Francisco. - Michael Chiarello
Michael Chiarello (born January 26, 1962 in Red Bluff, California, USA) is an American celebrity chef specializing in Italian-influenced California cuisine. He hosts the cooking show, "Easy Entertaining with Michael Chiarello", on the Food Network and hosts "NapaStyle" on the Fine Living Network. Chiraello owns a winery, Chiarello Family Vineyards, and NapaStyle, a purveyor of food, cookware, and furniture. - Joel Siegel
Joel Siegel was an American film critic for the ABC morning news show "Good Morning America" for over 25 years. Born to a Jewish family and raised in Los Angeles, California, he graduated "cum laude" from UCLA. During college, he worked to register black voters in Georgia, and he spoke frequently of having met Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Timothy Perry Shriver
Timothy Perry Shriver, Ph.D., (born August 29, 1959) is chairman of the Special Olympics. He is part of the Kennedy family. His father is Sargent Shriver and his mother is Eunice Mary Kennedy who founded the Special Olympics movement in 1968. His brother-in-law is Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Governor of California (married to his sister Maria). He received his bachelor's degree from Yale University, … - Ray Charles
Ray Charles was the stage name of Ray Charles Robinson, a pioneering American pianist and soul musician who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues. He brought a soulful sound to country music, pop standards, and a rendition of "America the Beautiful" that Ed Bradley of "60 Minutes" called the "definitive version of the song, an American anthem - a classic, … - Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 - May 8, 1988) was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of "hard" science fiction. He set a high standard for science and engineering plausibility, and helped to raise the genre's standards of literary quality. He was the first writer to break into mainstream general magazines such as "The Saturday Evening Post" in the late 1940s with unvarnished science fiction. - Chris Pontius
Chris Pontius (born Christopher Andrew Pontius on July 16, 1974 in Pasadena, California) is an American entertainer and daredevil. Pontius is a member of "Jackass" and, along with Steve-O, co-host of "Wildboyz". - Michael Ausiello
Michael Ausiello is an American television industry journalist and sometimes actor. He is currently Senior Writer at "TV Guide" and its companion website, TVGuide.com, where he has developed a reputation for breaking television industry news stories. A native of New Jersey and a graduate of the University of Southern California, … - Bobby Kielty
Robert Michael ("Bobby") Kielty (last name pronounced KELT-E) (born August 5, 1976) is an American born outfielder for the Oakland Athletics. Kielty was born in Fontana, California. He graduated from Canyon Springs High School (Moreno Valley, California) in 1994. After high school, he attended the University of Southern California from 1994 to 1995, Riverside Junior College from 1996 to 1997, and the University of Mississippi from 1997 to 1998. - Bobby Bonds
Bobby Lee Bonds was an American right fielder in professional baseball from 1968 to 1981, primarily with the San Francisco Giants. Noted for his outstanding combination of power hitting and speed, he was the first player to have more than two seasons of 30 home runs and 30 stolen bases, doing so a record five times, and was the first to accomplish the feat in both leagues; he became the second player to hit 300 career home runs and steal 300 bases, joining Willie Mays. - Sanford Berman
Sanford Berman (b. October 6, 1933) is an outspoken, radical librarian (cataloger) known for promoting alternative viewpoints in librarianship and acting as a pro-active information conduit to other librarians around the world, mostly via public speaking, voluminous correspondence, and unsolicited "care packages" delivered via the U.S. Postal Service. - Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American socialist organizer, professor who was associated with the Black Panther Party (BPP) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Davis's main association however, was her membership in the Communist Party USA. She first achieved nationwide notoriety when she was linked to the murder of judge Harold Haley during an attempted Black Panther prison break; she fled underground, … - Sam Chapman
Samuel Blake Chapman (April 11 1916 - December 22 2006) was an American two-sport athletic star who played as a center fielder in Major League Baseball, spending nearly his entire career with the Philadelphia Athletics (1938-1941, 1945-1951). He batted and threw right-handed, leading the American League in putouts four times. He was previously an All-American college football player at the University of California. - Gary Williams
I work in international IT and change management. See LinkedIn and ecademy for my professional profile, references and resume. I'm an Open Networker open to connect on gary.williams@runbox.com at ecademy.com, plaxo.com, linkedin.com, konnects.com, naymz.com and facebook.com. Email is best to contact me. I work hard, love friends and family, having fun, sport, cars, motorbikes and very loud music. Life is short, you get one shot and I figure I've had more than half of mine already! :-) - J. Michael Straczynski
Joseph Michael Straczynski (born July 17, 1954) is an award-winning American writer/producer of television series, novels, short stories, comic books, and radio dramas. He is also a playwright, journalist and author of a well-regarded tome on scriptwriting. He was the creator, executive producer and head writer for the science fiction TV series "Babylon 5" and its spin-off "Crusade". Straczynski wrote 91 out of the 110 "Babylon 5" episodes, … - Ytcracker
Bryce Case, Jr. (b. August 23, 1982), otherwise known as YTCracker, is a rapper, former hacker, and Internet entrepreneur. YTCracker began producing rap music in 1998 in the genre that has since become known as nerdcore hip hop. His early work mainly focused on documenting and amusing the participants of the America Online hacking scene. YTCracker is a self-proclaimed "jack of all trades", also making a name for himself as a professional disc jockey, … - Sheldon Rampton
Sheldon Rampton (born August 4, 1957) is the editor of "PR Watch", and the author of several books that criticize the public relations industry and what he sees as other forms of corporate and government propaganda. Rampton was born in Long Beach, California. At the age of three, his family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where his father worked as a musician. Raised as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), … - Rob Reiner
Robert "Rob" Reiner (born March 6, 1947) is an American actor, director, producer, and writer. As an actor, Reiner first came to national prominence as Carroll O'Connor's and Jean Stapleton's son-in-law, Michael "Meathead" Stivic, on "All in the Family" in a role which earned him two Emmy Awards during the 1970s. As director, the Directors Guild of America recognized him with nominations for his work on "Stand By Me", "When Harry Met Sally...", … - Gary Soto
Gary Soto (born Febuary 1952) is an American author and poet. He has received many awards for his writing, which is centered on the Mexican-American or Chicano experience. Soto was born and raised in Fresno, California, to working-class Mexican-American parents. He had an older brother named Bobby, and a younger sister named Debra. Soto lived in Fresno where he worked as a factory laborer. His inspirations include Thomas Berger, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Pablo Neruda, … - Ted Lange
Theodore William Lange (born January 5, 1948 in Oakland, California) is an African American actor best known for his role as the bartender, Isaac Washington, in the TV series "The Love Boat". Lange also played Junior on the series "That's My Mama". His first screen appearance was in the documentary film "Wattstax". In the late '80s a pilot for a revival series called That's My Mama Now! with Ted Lange as the star was produced, … - Joseph Alioto
Joseph Lawrence Alioto (February 12, 1916 - January 29, 1998) was the mayor of San Francisco from 1968 to 1976. He was born in San Francisco to Sicilian immigrants (his father was a fisherman; his parents met on a fishing boat while escaping the 1906 San Francisco earthquake). Alioto graduated from St. Mary's College in Moraga, California in 1937 and from The Catholic University of America in 1940. - Narinder Singh Kapany
Dr. Narinder Singh Kapany is widely acknowledged as the father of optical fiber. Earlier, Irish physicist John Tyndall had shown that light could travel in curve inside a material (water). In 1952, this earlier work led Kapany to conduct studies that led to the invention of optical fiber. Narinder Singh Kapany is of Sikh Punjabi origin, he was educated in England and has spent over 45 years in the United States. - Kiki Vandeweghe
Ernest Maurice "Kiki" Vandeweghe III (born August 1, 1958 in Wiesbaden, Germany), is a former National Basketball Association player and the former General Manager of the Denver Nuggets. Vandeweghe is the son of former NBA player Ernie Vandeweghe and Colleen Kay Hutchins, the winner of the 1952 Miss America pageant. Vandeweghe is also the nephew of another NBA player, four-time All-Star Mel Hutchins. - Virgil Nemoianu
Virgil Nemoianu is a Romanian-American essayist, literary critic, and philosopher of culture. He is generally described as a specialist in “comparative literature” but this is a somewhat limiting label, only partially covering the wider range of his activities and accomplishments. His thinking places him at the intersection of Neo-Platonism and Neo-Kantianism, which he turned into an instrument meant to qualify, channel, and tame the asperities, … - Madison Nguyen
Madison P. Nguyen in an American politician from California, currently serving on the San Jose, California City Council, representing District 7. Born in Vietnam and immigrated to the United States in early 80s, she received her BA in History from the University of California, Santa Cruz; and her MA in Social Science from the University of Chicago.She used to teach sociology and Vietnamese American Culture at De Anza and Evergreen colleges, San Jose, CA. - Edward Lee Greene
Edward Lee Greene was an American botanist. Greene was instructor and professor of botany at the University of California, Berkeley (1885–1895), professor of botany at the Catholic University (1895–1904), and associate in botany at the Smithsonian Institution (1904–1915). - Frank Bidart
Frank Bidart (b. 1939 in Bakersfield, California) is an American academic and award-winning poet. In 1957, he began to study at the University of California at Riverside and went on to Harvard, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. He began studying with Lowell and Reuben Brower in 1962. He has taught at Wellesley College since 1972 and is currently (as of 2007) a professor of English there. - Matus Valent
Matus Valent (born on April 20, 1981) is a European male fitness model born in Bratislava, Slovak Republic living in California. As a youth, he played indoor volleyball and became the Junior Slovakian champion with his team ASK Inter. He was also on the Slovakian National team at age 19. During his college years, he turned to beach volleyball, and in 2004 he became the California A-Category champion. - Karla Conway
Karla Conway (born 5 July 1946 in Pasadena, California) was the name used by American model and artist Karla Jo Musacchia for her appearance as "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month for its April 1966 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Paul Morton Smith and R. Charleton Wilson. At 4' 11", Karla shares the honor of being the shortest playmate in "Playboy" history (the other being Sue Williams, April 1965). - Arnold Reisman
Arnold Reisman (born August 2, 1934) is an American engineer, historian and author living in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Arnold Reisman was born in Lodz, Poland, in 1934. He came to the United States after World War II and graduated from New York's Stuyvesant Height School of Math and Science in 1951. He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees in engineering from University of California, Los Angeles. He is a registered Professional Engineer in California, Wisconsin, and Ohio, … - Elliot Meyerowitz
Elliot Meyerowitz (b. May 22, 1951) is a U.S. biologist. He is currently George W. Beadle Professor of Biology and Chair, Division of Biology at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Meyerowitz earned his A.B. from Columbia University, and M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in Biology from Yale University. He joined the Caltech faculty after a postdoctoral period at the Biochemistry Department of the Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. - Craig Stadler
Craig Robert Stadler (born June 2, 1953) is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments at both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour level. Stadler was born in San Diego, California and attended La Jolla High School. He displayed a talent for golf early in life. He won the 1973 U.S. Amateur, while attending the University of Southern California where he became a two-time All-American. He turned professional in 1975.
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