- Charles Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh (4 February 1902 - 26 August 1974), known as "Lucky Lindy" and "The Lone Eagle," was an American pilot famous for the first solo, non-stop flight across the Atlantic, from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, NY to Paris in 1927 in the "Spirit of St. Louis." In the ensuing deluge of notoriety, Lindbergh became the world's best-known aviator. Charles Lindbergh is a recipient of the Medal of Honor. In the years prior to World War II, … - Michael Kelly
Michael Kelly was an editor-at-large of the "Atlantic Monthly" and a columnist for the "Washington Post". He died in 2003 covering the invasion of Iraq. Prior to his employment at "Atlantic", he was the editor of "The New Republic", from 1996 to 1997. Considering that the fraudulent writer, Stephen Glass, was a major contributor under his editorship, Kelly later felt ashamed that he was fooled by Glass' false stories. - Gordon Campbell
Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell VC, DSO & 2 Bars, Croix de guerre avec Palmes, Legion d'Honneur (January 6, 1886 - July 3, 1953) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Educated at Dulwich College (between 1898 and 1900), he later became a senior officer and politician. - Anna Wintour
Anna Wintour (born November 3, 1949, in London) is the editor-in-chief of American "Vogue", a position she has held since 1988. She became interested in fashion as a teenager. Her father, Charles, editor of the "Evening Standard", often consulted with her on how to make the newspaper's coverage relevant to the youth of mid-1960s London. After dropping out of school at 16, she began a career in fashion journalism. - David Irving
David Irving, born in 1952 in Allerdale, England is a former professional football player. He played as a striker. His childhood ambition was to play for then Football League side Workington. He is now the head coach of USL Second Division side Wilmington Hammerheads. He joined the Hammerheads at the beginning of the 1998 season. - Dj Drama
DJ Drama (Dramatic) (born Tyree Cinque Simmons on April 22, 1978 in Philadelphia) is the official DJ for Grand Hustle/Atlantic recording artist T.I., but he is most well-known for his achievements in the mixtape game, producing the popular "Gangsta Grillz" mix tape series. He went to high school in Philadelphia and Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta. DJ Drama recently landed a "long term, worldwide" deal with Grand Hustle Records. - Joe Tex
Joe Tex (born Joseph Arrington Jr., Baytown, Texas, 8 August, 1933 - died 13 August 1982, Navasota, Texas) was an American soul singer most popular during the 1960s and 1970s. His style of speaking over music, which he called "rap," made him a predecessor of the modern style of music. - Eddie Floyd
Eddie Floyd (born Eddie Lee Floyd, 25 June 1935, Montgomery, Alabama) is a soul/R&B singer and songwriter, best known for his work on the Stax record label in the 1960s and 1970s. Floyd was born in Alabama, but grew up in Detroit, Michigan. He founded The Falcons, which also featured "Sir" Mack Rice. They were forerunners to future Detroit vocal groups such as The Temptations and The Four Tops. - William Langewiesche
William Langewiesche is an American author and journalist, and was a professional airplane pilot for many years. He is currently the international editor for Vanity Fair magazine, but made his name as a national correspondent for "The Atlantic Monthly" magazine. He has written articles covering events such as the World Trade Center cleanup, a three-part series which was published as the book "American Ground". - James Murray
James Murray (born 22 January, 1975) is an English actor. Murray was born in Greater Manchester, his great-grandfather was Richard Hollins Murray, who invented the reflecting lens in 1927. After a childhood appearance in "Shoestring", Murray found fame as an adult in ITV1's soap opera "Coronation Street" as Sandy Hunter. He then starred in a series of both film and television pieces on both sides of the Atlantic, including "Being John Malkovich", … - Jason Lewis
Jason Lewis, born 1967 in Catterick UK, is a self-powered circumnavigator. He set off from Greenwich, London in July, 1994 to travel round the globe (Expedition 360), and had travelled over 64,374 km (40,000 miles) by October 2006. *Lewis crossed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in a wooden pedal boat. *He roller bladed across North America. Struck by a driver in Pueblo, Colorado, he spent nine months recovering from two broken legs, returning to the trek in May, 1996. - Plies
Plies (born Algernod Lanier Washington on July 1,1976)) is a American rapper from Fort Myers, Florida signed to Slip-N-Slide Records. However, Plies chose to stay with Atlantic rather than move over to Def Jam. His first single, "Shawty" featuring T-Pain has charted on the U.S Hot 100, U.S. R&B and U.S. Rap charts. His debut album, "The Real Testament," is expected to be released August 7, 2007. - Michael Mullen
Admiral Michael Glenn Mullen (born October 4 1946) became the 28th Chief of Naval Operations of the United States Navy, relieving Admiral Vern Clark on 22 July, 2005. He served as Vice Chief of Naval Operations under Clark, and as the Commander of U.S. Naval Forces Europe & Commander of Allied Joint Force Command Naples. - John Crowley
John Crowley is an Irish theatre and film director who has received critical acclaim in both mediums and has had huge success on both sides of the Atlantic with his theatre work. - Clifford Jordan
Clifford Laconia Jordan (September 2, 1931, Chicago - March 27, 1993, Manhattan) was an inside/outside sax player who held his own with Eric Dolphy in the 1964 Charles Mingus Sextet. Jordan had his own sound on tenor saxophone almost from the start. He gigged around Chicago with Max Roach, Sonny Stitt, and some R&B groups before moving to New York in 1957. - Frank Lobiondo
Frank A. LoBiondo (born May 12, 1946) is a trucking executive and American Republican Party politician, who has been a member of the United States House of Representatives since 1995, representing New Jersey's Second Congressional District (map). The Second Congressional District is at the southern end of New Jersey, and by far the biggest Congressional District in the state. It includes all of Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland and Salem Counties and parts of Camden, … - Gordon Haskell
Gordon Haskell (born Gordon Hionidies, 27 April 1946, in Bournemouth, Dorset, England) was the bassist and vocalist in the transitional King Crimson line-up of 1970. He appeared on the album "Lizard", but quit the group during rehearsals for live work. School friends with Robert Fripp, they previously worked together in an earlier version of League of Gentlemen. Haskell's more folk oriented interests were in conflict with Crimson's sound, so he elected to leave. - William Williams
William Williams VC, DSM & Bar (5 October 1890-22 October 1965), was a Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was 26 years old, and a seaman in the Royal Naval Reserve during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. - Muhammad
Muhammad (c. 570 Makka- June 8, 632 CE Madina), was the founder of Islam and is regarded by Muslims as the last messenger and prophet of God (Arabic: الله "Allah"). Muslims believe that he was not the creator of a new religion, but the restorer of the original, uncorrupted monotheistic faith of Adam, Abraham and others. They see him as the last and the greatest in a series of prophets. - Karl Dönitz
Karl Dönitz ; September 16, 1891-December 24, 1980) was a German naval leader, who was in command of the "Kriegsmarine" during World War II and was President of Germany for 23 days after Adolf Hitler's suicide. Dönitz was born in the suburb Grünau of Berlin. He entered the "Kaiserliche Marine" (Imperial German Navy) in 1911. During World War I, he served on surface ships before transferring to submarines. - William M. Gray
William M. "Bill" Gray, Ph.D., is a pioneer in the science of forecasting hurricanes. Nicholas Riccardi wrote in the "LA Times" (May 30, 2006): :William M. Gray pioneered the concept of "seasonal" hurricane forecasting — predicting months in advance the severity of the coming hurricane season. Gray's prognostications, issued since 1983, are used by insurance companies to calculate premiums. - Sam Dees
Sam Dees (born December 17, 1945 in Birmingham, Alabama USA) is a soul singer, songwriter and producer. Dees was born into a large family and quickly distinguished himself with his voice. At the age of 9, already champion of several singing contests, he founded his own vocal group, the "Bossanovians". As a teenager he traveled to perform and, in 1968 he recorded his first single at Nashville, Tennessee's SSS International. - Maud Fontenoy
Maud Fontenoy is a French sailor known for her rowings across the Atlantic (2003) and Pacific (2005) oceans. Most recently, she completed a sailing trip around the Antarctic alone, against prevailing winds. Departed from the Réunion island on October 15, 2006, she crossed the finish line on March 14, 2007, having sailed for 14,500 km (9,000 miles). However, this sailing trip is not accepted as an official sailing "around the globe". - Kathleen Norris
Kathleen Thompson Norris (b. July 16 1880, San Francisco, California; d. January 18 1966, Palo Alto, California) was an American novelist and wife of fellow writer Charles Norris, whom she wed in 1909. She was educated in a special course at the University of California and wrote many popular romance novels that some considered sentimental and honest in their prose. Norris was the highest-paid female writer of her time, and many of her novels are held in high regard today. - George Wallington
George Wallington (born Giacinto Figlia, October 27, 1923, Palermo, Sicily - Cape Coral, Miami, February 15, 1993) was a highly regarded American bop pianist and composer. From 1943 to 1953 he played with Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Marsala, Charlie Parker, Serge Chaloff, Allan Eager, Kai Winding, Terry Gibbs, Brew Moore, Al Cohn, Gerry Mulligan, Zoot Sims, Red Rodney, and Lionel Hampton, and recorded as a leader for Savoy and Blue Note (1950). - David Gress
David Gress (born 29 January 1953), is a Danish-American historian, known for his 1998 survey "From Plato to Nato" on Western identity and grand narratives. He was born in Copenhagen. He was an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, where he read classics. He was awarded a doctorate in medieval history from Bryn Mawr College in 1981. He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution from 1982 to 1992. - Michael Pollock
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Michael Patrick Pollock, GCB, LVO, DSC (19 October 1916 - 27 September 2006) was a British officer in the Royal Navy who rose to become First Sea Lord from 1971 to 1974. In the Second World War, he was an officer on ships tasked with protecting convoys in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, and was gunnery officer on the cruiser HMS "Norfolk" when she fought the German battlecruiser "Scharnhorst" during the Battle of North Cape. - John Fairfax
John Fairfax is a British rower and adventurer and in 1969 became the first person to row solo across an ocean. Fairfax was born in Italy to an English father and Bulgarian mother. As a child he was expelled from the Italian Boy Scouts for opening fire on a hut full of fellow Scouts with a revolver. Soon after that he moved with his mother to Argentina. When he was 13 he left home to live in the jungle “like Tarzan”. - Richard Bausch
Richard Bausch (1945) is an American novelist, and professor of English at the University of Memphis. His novels usually focus on American family life. He is a contributor of short stories to various periodicals, including Harper's, Ploughshares, Esquire, Atlantic, and The New Yorker. His work has also been represented in anthologies, including O'Henry Prize Stories and Best American Short Stories. - Billie Jo Spears
Billie Jo Spears (born Billie Jean Spears January 14 1937, in Beaumont, Texas) is an American Country Music Singer. In the 1970s, Billie Jo Spears landed a few big Country hits. Her best known hit by far is the 1975 song "Blanket On the Ground". She is known for Bluesy voice. - Ann Austin
Ann Austin was one of the first women persecuted for her religious beliefs in the American colonies. Austin was a resident of London, the mother of five children, who left with Mary Fisher to bring the message of the "inner light" to the New World. These two members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) left England, where Fisher had suffered beatings because of her beliefs, and sailed to Barbados. - Colin Angus
Colin is no stranger to adventure. As a teenager he embarked on a five year mostly solo offshore sailing journey. He then went on to complete the first descent of world’s mightiest river, the Amazon, by raft, followed by the first descent of Mongolia’s Yenisey River. A national best-selling author, Colin has penned three books chronicling his adventures. - Tom Fenton
Thomas Trail Fenton (born 1930 in Baltimore, Maryland) is a former correspondent for CBS News who retired in 2004 after a 34-year career. Fenton graduated from Dartmouth College in 1952 with a B.A. in English and was an officer in the United States Navy from 1952 to 1961, serving on destroyers in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. His Navy service placed him in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in 1952 and in the Mediterranean during the 1958 Lebanon Crisis. - Lewis Gordon Pugh
Lewis Gordon Pugh is a British swimmer, explorer, environmentalist,motivational speaker,and Lawyer. He is known as the "Isbjørn" (the Ice Bear or Polar Bear) for his unique ability to withstand extreme cold. Pugh was the first person to complete a long distance swim in both the Arctic and the Antarctic and the first person to complete a long distance swim in all 5 oceans of the world (Atlantic, Indian, Pacific, Arctic and Southern). - Eddie Brigati
Eddie Brigati (born Edward Brigati Jr., on 22 October, 1945, in Garfield, New Jersey) is an American singer and songwriter. Most memorably, Eddie shared vocals, and played tambourine, in the music group The Young Rascals from 1965 to 1970. Prior to his stint with The Young Rascals (who later shortened their name to The Rascals), Eddie had been a member of Joey Dee and the Starliters (having actually replaced his brother, original Starliter David Brigati, … - Amaro
According to Christian tradition, Saint Amaro or Amarus the Pilgrim was an abbot and sailor who sailed across the Atlantic to an earthly paradise. There are two historical figures who may have provided the basis for this legend. The first was French penitent of the same name who went on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in the thirteenth century. On his return journey, he established himself at Burgos, where he founded a hospital for lepers. - Eustace Conway
Eustace Conway (born Eustace Robinson Conway IV in 1961 in South Carolina) is an American naturalist and the subject of the book "The Last American Man" by Elizabeth Gilbert. He is the owner of 1000 acre Turtle Island Preserve near Boone, North Carolina. At the age of 12, Conway lived in the woods for a week. At 17 he moved out of his parents home entirely so that he could live in a tipi in the woods. - Jeffrey Fowler
Vice Admiral Jeffrey L. Fowler was raised in Bismarck, North Dakota. He received his commission from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1978 and immediately commenced training in the Navy’s Nuclear Propulsion program. Fowler has served at sea in USS Bremerton (SSN-698), USS Alaska (SSBN-732), and as Executive Officer for the Pre-commissioning Unit Montpelier (SSN 765) and USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN-709). He commanded USS Charlotte (SSN-766) and Submarine Squadron Three, … - Larry Dale
Larry Dale (b. January 7, 1923 in Wharton, Texas) is an American blues singer and guitarist. During the early 1950s Ennis Lowery (his legal name) took initial inspiration on guitar playing from B.B. King, … - Milton Acorn
Milton James Rhode Acorn (March 30, 1923 - August 20, 1986), nicknamed "The People's Poet" by his peers, was a Canadian poet, writer, and playwright. He was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Milton Acorn was a World War II veteran. On a trans-Atlantic crossing, he suffered a wound from depth charges. The wound was severe enough for him to receive a disability pension from Veterans Affairs for most of his life.
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