- Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple McAfee Maggart (born September 13, 1977) is a Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter. She is best known as Fiona Apple. - 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, … - R. W. Apple Jr.
Raymond Walter Apple, Jr. (November 20 1934 - October 4 2006), known to all as "Johnny", but bylined as R.W. Apple, was an associate editor at "The New York Times", where he wrote on a variety of subjects, most notably politics, travel, and food. Born in Akron, Ohio, Apple graduated from Western Reserve Academy, a private, coeducational boarding school in the small town of Hudson, Ohio, where he first practiced journalism at the school's newspaper, … - Gary Apple
Gary Apple (born August 8, 1960 in Troy, New York) is an American sportscaster. He is a television host for the NBA Television Network and currently the host of SportsNet New York's "Daily News Live". - Charlie Apple
Charlie "C.A." Apple (born 1941 - Penn Hills, Pennsylvania) is a veteran R&B and oldies radio disc jockey from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Apple began broadcasting at WPSL 1510 AM in Monroeville, Pennsylvania in 1966, and his career has seen stops at mostly small AM and FM stations in the Pittsburgh area. Along the way, he has amassed a cult following of fans who refer to themselves collectively as "The Apple Corps". - Henry Harbaugh Apple
Henry Harbaugh Apple (November 8, 1869- 1943) was an American clergyman and educator born in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Franklin and Marshall College in 1889 and from the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in 1892. Ordained to the ministry of his denomination, he became pastor of St. John's Church in Philadelphia (1892) and of Trinity Church in York, Pennsylvania. In 1905 he was president of the Potomac Synod of the Reformed Church. - Michael Apple
Michael W. Apple (1942 -) is a leading critical educational theorist, recognized for numerous books and scholarly interests, which center on education and power, cultural politics, curriculum theory and research, critical teaching, and the development of democratic schools. He is currently the John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education, where he has taught since 1970. - Raymond Apple
Rabbi Raymond Apple (born December 27, 1935) was Senior Rabbi of the Great Synagogue of Sydney between 1972 and 2005. In this role, he was one of Australia's highest profile rabbis and its leading Jewish spokesman. - Jim Apple
Jim Apple was an American college and professional football player. A halfback, he played college football at Upsala University, and played professionally in the American Football League for the New York Titans in 1961. - Billy Apple
- Thomas Apple
Thomas Apple is an entrepreneur and inventor, best known for inventing the logo stockticker display and creating the concept of the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York City's Times Square. Thomas was also the executive brought into the NASD in May 1989 to start the Marketing Planning Group. That group produced the initial Nasdaq TV and Radio campaigns and built the initial on-line products that lead to the development of Nasdaq.com and Nasdaq-online.com. - John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980), was an Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning English songwriter, singer, musician, graphic artist, author and political activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of The Beatles. Lennon and Paul McCartney formed a critically acclaimed and commercially successful partnership writing songs for The Beatles and other artists. Lennon, with his cynical edge and knack for introspection, and McCartney, … - Steve Wozniak
Dr. Stephan Gary "Woz" Wozniak (born August 11 1950 in San Jose, California) is a U.S. computer engineer and the co-founder of Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.), with Steve Jobs. His inventions and machines are credited with contributing greatly to the personal computer revolution of the 1970s. Wozniak created the Apple I and Apple II computers in the mid-1970s. The Apple II gained a sizable amount of popularity, … - Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. He is best known for his popular blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft. He and his wife, Maryam Ghaemmaghami Scoble , currently work at PodTech.net , a video-podcast startup. He is the co-author of Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers with Shel Israel . - Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki , who was Apple's software evangelist, is passionate about the idea that products and services reach critical mass 'because mere mortals spread the word for you.' He also has noted that the people who developed the original Macintosh didn't really have any idea of what people would do with the machine-and thus how its users would influence its development. We're wired to create patterns, but that doesn't mean the first patterns are necessarily useful. - Michael Arrington
I am the editor of TechCrunch and owner of the TechCrunch Network of blog and podcasting sites. - Jonathan Ive
Jonathan Paul Ive CBE (born February 1967) is Senior Vice President of Industrial Design at Apple Inc. He is internationally renowned as the principal designer of the iMac, iPod and the iPhone. - John Gruber
John Gruber (born 1973) is a technical writer and technology pundit, and author of Apple- and Web-related blog Daring Fireball, which he writes as a full-time job. His blog often seeks to refute criticism of Steve Jobs, Apple, and its products. He is also the creator of Markdown, a text-to-HTML formatting syntax for web writers, as well as other web-related side projects. - Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton <small><nowiki>[</nowiki> OS: 25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726<nowiki>]</nowiki></small> was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, and alchemist. His treatise "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica", published in 1687, described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, laying the groundwork for classical mechanics, … - Hans Reiser
Hans Thomas Reiser (born December 1963) is an American computer programmer famous for his contributions to the free software community in the field of file systems. In particular he is deeply involved in the Linux kernel development with his widespread ReiserFS journaling file system and its successor Reiser4. In 1997 Reiser founded and has since headed Namesys Inc., … - Paul Thurrott
Paul Thurrott is the news editor for Windows IT Pro . He writes a weekly editorial for Windows IT Pro UPDATE (http://www.windowsitpro.com/email) and a daily Windows news and information newsletter called WinInfo Daily UPDATE (http://www.wininformant.com). - Peter Oppenheimer
Peter Oppenheimer is Apple Inc.'s senior vice president and Chief Financial Officer. As CFO, Peter oversees the controller, treasury, investor relations, tax, information systems, internal audit, facilities, corporate development and human resources functions. He reports directly to Apple's CEO Steve Jobs and serves on the company's executive committee. - Jon Rubinstein
Jon has helped launch some of the most influential computing products of the past decade. As a member of Apple Inc.'s executive staff and head of hardware engineering, he was instrumental in conceiving the iPod, one of the most successful consumer electronics products ever. He also led the team that built the iMac. Jon began his Apple career in 1997 as senior vice president for hardware engineering. - Red House
Red House in Bexleyheath in the southern suburbs of London, England is a key building in the history of the Arts and Crafts movement and of 19th century British architecture. It was designed in 1859 by its owner, William Morris, and the architect Philip Webb, with wall paintings and stained glass by Edward Burne-Jones. Morris wanted a home for himself and his new wife, Jane. - Johnny Appleseed
Johnny Appleseed, born John Chapman, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced the apple to large parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. He became an American legend while still alive, largely because of his kind and generous ways, his leadership in conservation, and also because of the symbolic importance of apples. He was also a missionary for the Church of the New Jerusalem, which is based on the theological writings of Emanuel Swedenborg. - Jef Raskin
Jef Raskin (March 9, 1943-February 26, 2005) was an American human-computer interface expert best-known for starting the Macintosh project for Apple Computer in the late 1970s. - Martin Varsavsky
Martin Varsavsky is an Argentinian/Spanish telecommunications and new media entrepreneur. Born in Buenos Aires on April 26, 1960, to Carlos Varsavsky and Silvia Waisman, Varsavsky attended primary school at the New Model School and the Colegio Nicolás Avellaneda high school. At the age of 16, he moved with his family to the United States as a refugee, following the forced disappearance of his cousin, David Horacio Varsavsky. - Gil Amelio
Gilbert F. Amelio (born March 1, 1943 in New York City) is an American technology executive. He grew up in Miami, Florida, and received a bachelors, masters, and Ph.D. in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Amelio worked at Bell Labs, Fairchild Semiconductor, and the semiconductor division of Rockwell International, but is best remembered as a former CEO of National Semiconductor and Apple. Amelio was CEO of National Semiconductor from May 27, 1991, … - Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson is the Senior Vice President of Retail Operations at Apple Computer. He pioneered the concept of the Apple Retail Stores and the Genius Bar, even in the face of stiff criticism from CEO Steve Jobs. Ron joined Apple in September 2000. He previously worked as vice president of merchandising for Target. Under Johnson's direction, Apple's retail stores achieved a record level of growth, exceeding a billion dollars in annual sales within two years of their debut, … - David Mitchell
David Mitchell (born 14 July 1974 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England) is an English comedian, actor and writer. He is best known as one half of the comedic duo Mitchell and Webb, alongside Robert Webb whom he met at Cambridge University. There they were both part of the Cambridge Footlights, of which Mitchell became President. Together the pair are most famous for starring in the Channel 4 sitcom "Peep Show" in which Mitchell plays Mark Corrigan. - Michael Scott
Michael "Scotty" Scott (born 1943) was the first CEO of Apple from February 1977 to March 1981. Formerly director of manufacturing at National Semiconductor, Mike Markkula convinced Scott to take the CEO position at Apple, as the co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were neither seen as fit for the job at the time. Attempting to set an example for all businesses, in 1979 Scott declared there would be no typewriters at Apple. - Ellen Feiss
Ellen Feiss (born circa 1987) became an Internet phenomenon after her 2002 Errol Morris-directed television commercial for Apple Computer's Switch campaign grew into a cult hit. In the commercial, the then-14-year-old American high school student complained that her father's Windows PC had broken. Fueling the popularity of the advertisement was the speculation that Feiss was under the influence of illicit drugs during the filming of the commercial, … - Darren Barefoot
Darren Barefoot is a writer and marketing executive based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is a founding partner at Capulet Communications, a public relations firm specializing in high technology companies. Barefoot wrote a monthly column for the "Yaletown View", whose parent company publishes magazines in British Columbia and California. Barefoot has also written for the Vancouver Sun and "Victoria News" newspapers, … - Kevin Marks
Kevin Marks is author of the weblog Epeus Epigone and a software engineer at Google. He became principal engineer for Technorati after doing work for both Apple and the BBC. He is an advocate of Microformats. At the first BloggerCon, Marks discussed the power curve as it applies to weblogs: <blockquote>The net changes the power law of the media curve. If you look at relative popularity on the web, using something like Technorati, … - Adios
Adios (January 3, 1940-1965) was a champion harness racing sire. The son of Hal Dale and the mare Adioo Volo, the horse named Adios was born on January 3, 1940 at Two Gaits Farm, in Carmel, Indiana. Trained and driven by Frank Ervin and for a while owned by Harry Warner of Warner Bros. film studio, Adios was a multiple world champion during his racing career, his pacing record at the Shelbyville, Indiana fair stood for 43 years. - Mike Markkula
Armas Clifford "Mike" Markkula Jr. (born 1942) is a legendary venture capitalist who provided early critical funding for Apple. After his stint there, he continued on to found Echelon Corporation, ACM Aviation, San Jose Jet Center and Rana Creek Habitat Restoration and to endow the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, where he now chairs the Board of Trustees. - John Romero
John Romero is EVP of Game Development at Slipgate Ironworks, a new Bay Area MMO company he co-founded in September 2005. He was a co-Founder of Inside Out Software, Ideas From The Deep, id Software, Ion Storm, and Monkeystone Games. From his early Apple IIe games to the legendary Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Doom II, Heretic, Hexen, and Quake, Romero has made an indelible mark on the computer gaming industry. - Susan Kare
Susan Kare User Interface Graphics is a digital design practice in San Francisco, California. According to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Susan Kare is "a pioneering and influential computer iconographer. Since 1983, Kare has designed thousands of icons for the world's leading software companies. Utilizing a minimalist grid of pixels and constructed with mosaic-like precision, her icons communicate their function immediately and memorably, with wit and style." - John Murphy
John Murphy (born 1965, Liverpool, England) is a British film composer. He is a self taught multi-instrumental musician who began his career in the 1980s working notably with The Lotus Eaters, Thomas Lang and Claudia Brucken. He began composing music for films in the early 1990s and scored his first hit with "Leon the Pig Farmer". Together with former OMD member David Hughes he worked on several successful British movies, … - Regis McKenna
Regis McKenna is best known for helping start several Silicon Valley firms during the 1970s and 1980s with his own marketing firm, Regis McKenna, Inc. founded in 1970. McKenna retired from consulting in 2000 and is concentrating his efforts on high tech entrepreneurial seed-ventures. McKenna and his firm worked with a number of start-ups during their formation years including America Online, Apple Computer, Compaq, Electronic Arts, Genentech, Intel, Lotus Software, …
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