- Road Warrior Animal
Joseph (Joe) Laurinaitis (born January 26 1960) better known by his ring name of The Road Warrior or Road Warrior Animal, is an American professional wrestler currently working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. He was one-half of the only tag team in wrestling history to hold the Tag Team Championship in the AWA, NWA, and WWE.
- Shaun White
Shaun Roger White (born September 3, 1986 in San Diego, California) is an American professional snowboarder and skateboarder based in Carlsbad, California. White has accumulated an accomplished competition record in both sports and has appeared in a number of media programs and video games. He has been a notable competitor in the extreme-sports community since he was about twelve years old. White stands 5' 8.5" (1.73 m) tall.
- Jeff Corwin
Jeffrey Samuel Corwin (born July 11, 1967 in Norwell, Massachusetts), better known as Jeff Corwin, is the host and executive producer of "The Jeff Corwin Experience" and "Corwin's Quest", two American television shows about animals airing on the Animal Planet cable channel. He previously appeared in "Going Wild With Jeff Corwin" on the Disney Channel. He also made a cameo appearance in an episode of "CSI: Miami", …
- Bob Barker
Robert William "Bob" Barker (born December 12, 1923) is a nineteen-time Emmy Award-winning American television game show host. He is best known for hosting CBS's "The Price Is Right" since September 4, 1972, making it the longest-running daytime game show in television history.
- Konrad Lorenz
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz (November 7, 1903 in Vienna - February 27, 1989 in Vienna) was an Austrian zoologist, animal psychologist, and ornithologist. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, developing an approach that began with an earlier generation, including his teacher Oskar Heinroth. Lorenz studied instinctive behavior in animals, especially in greylag geese and jackdaws.
- John Ray
John Ray (November 29, 1627 - January 17, 1705) was an English naturalist, sometimes referred to as the father of English natural history. Until 1670, he wrote his name as John Wray although no one knows why. He published important works on plants, animals, and natural theology. His classification of plants in his "Historia Plantarum", was an important step towards modern taxonomy.
- Karen Pryor
Karen Pryor is an author and a scientist with an international reputation in the fields of marine mammal biology and behavioral psychology. Through her work with dolphins in the 1960s, she pioneered modern, force-free animal training methods, and became an authority on applied operant conditioning—the art and science of changing behavior with positive reinforcement. She is a founder and leading proponent of clicker training, …
- Mike Mills
Michael Edward Mills (born December 17, 1958 in Orange County, California) is the bass player of the band R.E.M. Though known primarily as a bassist and piano player, his musical repertoire includes many other keyboard, string, wind and percussion instruments. He also contributes to much of the band's songwriting.
- Cleveland Amory
Cleveland Amory (September 2, 1917 - October 14, 1998) was an American author who devoted his life to promoting animal rights. He was perhaps best known for his books about his cat, named "Polar Bear", whom he saved from the New York Streets on Christmas Eve, 1978. Amory joined the board of directors of The Humane Society of the United States in 1962 and served until 1970. In 1967, he founded the Fund for Animals.
- Edwin Henry Landseer
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, RA (b. March 7, 1802 in London - d. October 1 1873) was an English painter, well known for his paintings of animals - particularly horses, dogs and stags. The best known of Landseer's works, however, are sculptures - the lions in Trafalgar Square, London. At the age of just 13, in 1815, Landseer exhibited works at the Royal Academy. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy at the age of 24, …
- Marguerite Henry
Marguerite Henry (April 13,1902-November 26,1997) was an American writer. The author of fifty-nine books based on true stories of horses and other animals, her work has captivated entire generations of children and young adults and won several Newbery Awards and Honors. Among the more famous of her works was "Misty of Chincoteague", which was the basis for the 1961 movie "Misty", and several sequel books.
- Charlotte Laws
Charlotte Laws (born May 11, 1960) is an American author, local Los Angeles politician, community activist, and animal rights advocate. As a former actress, some of her credits can be found under her Screen Actors Guild name Missy Laws. Laws is currently serving her second term on the Greater Valley Glen Council in Valley Glen, California. She is the first politician to run on the platform that she represents all beings in her district, …
- Randy Piper
Randy Piper is an American musician who made his name in the early days of W.A.S.P. and now has formed his own band called Animal with other former members from W.A.S.P., Chris Holmes and Tony Richards. Their debut album is called "900lb Steam". Latest Release is "Violent New Breed" featuring Band members: Chris Laney and Rich Lewis. The band will tour Europe starting May 25 2007.
- Fernando Vallejo
Fernando Vallejo is a biologist, filmmaker and writer, born in Colombia. He obtained Mexican nationality in 2007. He was born and raised in Medellín, though he abandoned his home town early in life. He started studies in Philosophy at the National University of Bogotá, but after one year he abandoned the Faculty of Philosophy and Lettres. Soon after he began new studies on Biology at the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, which he finished.
- George Edwards
George Edwards (April 3, 1694 - July 23, 1773) was an English naturalist and ornithologist, known as the "father of British ornithology". Edwards was born at Stratford, Essex. In his early years he travelled extensively through mainland Europe, studying natural history, and gained some reputation for his coloured drawings of animals, especially birds. In 1733, on the recommendation of Sir Hans Sloane, he was appointed librarian to the Royal College of Physicians in London.
- Johnny Morris
Johnny Morris OBE (20 June, 1916 Newport, Monmouthshire — 6 May, 1999) was a television presenter for the BBC, mostly associated with children's programmes on the topic of zoology, most notably "Animal Magic".
- Thomas Thomson
Thomas Thomson was a Scottish chemist. Born Crieff, Perthshire, he was educated at the University of St. Andrews in classics, mathematics and natural philosophy. He went on to graduate in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1799. However, he was inspired by Joseph Black to take up chemistry. In 1796, he succeeded his brother James as assistant editor of the "Supplement to the Third Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica", …
- Renato Dulbecco
Renato Dulbecco (born February 22, 1914) is an Italian-born virologist. He was born in Catanzaro (Southern Italy) from a Calabrese mother and a Ligurian father. He graduated from high school at 16, then moved to the University of Turin. Despite a strong interest for mathematics and physics, he decided to study medicine. At only 22, he graduated in morbid anatomy and pathology under the supervision of professor Giuseppe Levi.
- Nikolaas Tinbergen
Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen (April 15, 1907 - December 21, 1988) was a Dutch ethologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning organization and elicitation of individual and social behaviour patterns in animals.
- Joseph Wolf
Joseph Wolf was a German artist. Wolf was the son of a farmer, and was born at Münstermaifeld, on the river Moselle, in the Eifel region. In his boyhood he was an assiduous student of bird and animal life, and showed a remarkable capacity as a draughtsman of natural history subjects. At the age of sixteen he went to Koblenz to work for a firm of lithographers, and then in 1840 he moved to Frankfurt.
- Ronnie Verrell
Ronald 'Ronnie' Thomas Verrell (21 February 1926-22 February 2002) played the drums in two of Great Britain's most famous big bands, The Ted Heath Orchestra and The Syd Lawrence Orchestra. Verrell also worked extensively in television and film, among other as a drummer in Jack Parnell's ATV Orchestra and "Sunday Night at the London Paladium". He also provided the drumming for The Muppet show's Animal.
- Robert J. Lang
Dr. Robert J. Lang (born 1961) is an American physicist who is also one of the foremost origami artists and theorists in the world. He is known for his complex and elegant designs, most notably of insects and animals. He has long been a student of the mathematics of origami and of using computers to study the theories behind origami. He has made great advances in making real-world applications of origami to engineering problems.
- J. Allen Boone
J. Allen Boone (17 February 1882- 17 June 1965) was an author of several books about nonverbal communication with animals in the 1940s and '50s. He wrote much on his friendship with Strongheart, a film star-German shepherd, who he credits with teaching him how to achieve deeper bonds through extrasensory perception, a "silent language" that can be learned. Boone was an early film producer and correspondent for the "Washington Post".
- Eric Jacobson
Eric Jacobson is a puppeteer and Muppet performer, who has been the primary replacement puppeteer for Frank Oz's characters since 2001. Jacobson initially started playing Bert in 1997, but officially joined the cast as Bert, Cookie Monster, and additional Muppets in 2000. His role expanded in 2002 to include new Grover segments, particularly "Global Grover". His second role came in 2001 with "The Book of Pooh", where he worked on Piglet and Kanga.
- John Edward Gray
John Edward Gray (February 12, 1800 - March 7, 1875) was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray (1766-1828). John Gray was Keeper of Zoology at the British Museum in London from 1840 until Christmas 1874. He published several catalogues of the museum collections that included comprehensive discussions of animal groups as well as descriptions of new species.
- Nicolas Baudin
Nicolas-Thomas Baudin was a French explorer. Baudin was born in Saint-Martin-de-Ré on the Ile de Ré. At the age of fifteen he joined the merchant navy, and at twenty joined the French East India Company. He then joined the French navy and served in the Caribbean during the American War of Independence. After the war he captained ships transporting Austrian botanists to the Indian Ocean and the Pacific.
- Frans Snyders
Frans Snyders (1579 - 1657), or Snijders, was a Flemish painter of animals and still life. Snyders was born and died at Antwerp. He is recorded as a student of Pieter Brueghel the Younger in 1593, and subsequently received instruction from Hendrick van Balen, the first master of Van Dyck. He was a friend of Van Dyck who painted Snyders and his wife more than once (Frick Collection, Kassel etc). He became a master of the Antwerp painters guild in 1602.
- Moss Man
Moss Man is a fictional character from the popular Masters of the Universe (MOTU) franchise. As his name indicates, he is a man made of moss, whose power is to camouflage into foliage and other green areas, as well as control all plant life. He lives in the Evergreen Forest in harmony among the animals and plants. The figure is essentually a green repaint of the Beast Man action figure, …
- Patrick Robertson
Patrick Robertson (born May 5, 1977) is an Australian musician and songwriter, best known as the frontman for the successful post-grunge rock band Motor Ace. Formed in Melbourne during 1998, Motor Ace would go on to have major chart success with the albums "Five Star Laundry" and "Shoot This" in the early 2000's, before going on a lengthy hiatus that allowed individual members to pace themselves with their own projects.
- Alan Stokes
Alan Stokes (19 January, 1981) is a British professional surfer and surf model from Newquay, Cornwall. Stokes won the BPSA UK Tour in 2004. He is a popular model for surf clothing in the UK and is sponsored by Animal Clothing, Bulldog Accessories, C-Skins Wetsuits, Surftech Surfboards, and Vans Footwear,
- Thomas Bartholin
Thomas Bartholin (Thomas Bartolinus was a Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian. He is best known for his work in the discovery of the lymphatic system in humans and for his advancements of the theory of refrigeration anaesthesia, being the first to describe it scientifically. Thomas Bartholin came from a family that has became famous for its pioneering scientists, twelve of whom became professors at the University of Copenhagen.
- Dylan Scott Pierce
Dylan Scott Pierce (born ca. 1986) is an American child prodigy who excels at painting. His work consists primarily of animal and natural imagery. Pierce's work has been compared to Henri Rousseau's in its illustration of the absurdity of man's self-imprisonment in the menagerie of form. His work has been featured on QVC, profiled by a publication of the National Geographic Society, and he has a partnership with SeaWorld.
- Vladimir Dinets
Vladimir Dinets (born in Moscow in 1969) is well-travelled zoologist and also a travel writer. He is known in academic circles for dogged persistence and startling success in finding many rare species of animals. His travel accounts are renowned throughout Russia for their adventurous spirit and amusing style. Dinets is a graduate of the Moscow Technical University. He moved to the United States in 1997. As of 2005, he was a doctoral candidate at the University of Miami.
- Jodi Huisentruit
Jodi Sue Huisentruit (born June 5, 1968) was a television news anchor for KIMT, based in Mason City, Iowa in the United States. It is believed that she was abducted while on her way to work in the early morning hours of June 27, 1995. She was 27 years old at the time. Huisentruit grew up in Long Prairie, Minnesota. In high school, she was considered to be very good at golf. Her team won the state Class A tournament in 1985 and 1986. After high school, she went on to St.
- Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (January 28, 1608 - December 31, 1679) was an Italian physiologist and physicist
- Thomas Horsfield
Thomas Horsfield, M. D., (1773-1859) was an American physician and naturalist. Horsfield was born in Philadelphia and studied medicine. He worked as a doctor in Java for many years. The East India Company took control of the island from the Dutch in 1811, and Horsfield began to collect plants and animals on behalf of his friend Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles.
- Neeli Cherkovski
Neeli Cherkovski (born 1945) in Santa Monica, California) is a San Francisco poet and man of letters. He has written biographies of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Charles Bukowski, with whom he co-edited the Los Angeles zine "Laugh Literary and Man the Humping Guns." The poet grew up in Riverside, California. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was sometime political consultant for candidates in the Riverside area.
- Bartholomeus Anglicus
Bartholomeus Anglicus (Bartholomew of England) (born before 1203 - died 1272) was an early 13th century scholastic scholar of Paris, a member of the Franciscan order. He was the author of <cite>On the Properties of Things (De proprietatibus rerum)</cite>, dated at 1240, an early forerunner of the encyclopedia. Anglicus also held senior positions within the church and was appointed Bishop of Lukow although he wasn't consecrated in that position.
- Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton
Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton was a French naturalist. Daubenton was born at Montbard (Côte d'Or). His father, Jean Daubenton, a notary, intended him for the church, and sent him to Paris to study theology, but he was more interested in medicine. Jean's death in 1736 set his son free to choose his own career, and in 1741 he graduated in medicine at Reims, and returned to his native town planning to practise as a physician.
- Şahin K
Şahin K and his "natural" mood (in "Sahil" ("The Beach") he can't "get it up"). His most famous monologues are heard in "Sahil" and "Hizmetçi Kız" ("The Maid"). In 2003, he was arrested briefly in Turkey for having sex in public. In 2005, he organised summits in Istanbul and Ankara with his fans. In 2006 he even supported a "Porn Rap Music Project" with the German Turkish hip hop band Turk Live Crew.