- Claire McCaskill
Claire McCaskill (born July 24, 1953) is an American Democratic politician, currently the junior United States Senator from the state of Missouri and former State Auditor of Missouri. She defeated Republican Senator Jim Talent in 2006 by a margin of 50% to 47%. Along with Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, she is one of two female senators in the 110th United States Congress freshman class. She is the first woman elected to the Senate from Missouri in her own right.
- Marc Dann
Dann earned a bachelor of arts degree in 1984 from the University of Michigan and a law degree in 1987 from Case Western Reserve University . Dann practiced law in Youngstown, Ohio, and became active in Democratic Party politics. His disciplinary record as attorney consisted of a single reprimand from the Ohio Supreme Court for handling a 2002 alimony case without proper preparation.
- Brian Sonntag
Brian Sonntag, an American politician, is currently serving as the State Auditor for Washington. He is a Democrat. Sonntag was first elected to public office in 1978 as Pierce County Clerk, working as the administrative officer for the Superior Courts. On November 4, 1986, he was elected to the office of Pierce County Auditor, an office his father, Jack W. Sonntag, had held from 1948 to 1969.
- Sam Reed
Sam Reed is an American politician. He is a Republican and currently serves as the Secretary of State for Washington. Reed received his bachelor's and master's degrees in political science from Washington State University. He was elected to the office of Secretary of State in 2000, as one of only two Republicans to be elected to statewide office that year, after serving as Thurston County auditor for several decades. Reed is Washington's fourteenth Secretary of State.
- John Morrison
John Morrison (born 1961) was elected as state Auditor in Montana in November 2000, and re-elected in 2004. In April 2005, he became the first person to announce a candidacy in the Democratic primary for the 2006 US Senate election for the seat which was then held by Republican Conrad Burns.
- Rebecca Otto
Rebecca Otto (born July 9, 1963) is the Auditor of the U.S. state of Minnesota. She is affiliated with the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL). She also served one term in the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2003 - 2004 and on the Forest Lake Board of Education. Before entering politics, she was a junior high school science teacher. She lives on a farm near Marine on St. Croix with her husband, Shawn Lawrence Otto, a filmmaker.
- Barbara Hafer
Barbara Hafer took office as Pennsylvania's 74th Treasurer in January 1997, following eight years of public service as the state's Auditor General. She was reelected Treasurer in November 2000. The first Republican woman in history to serve as both Treasurer and Auditor General, she has earned a reputation as a critic of government waste and advocate of fiscal openness and accountability.
- A. Joseph Denucci
A. Joseph "Joe" DeNucci (born August 30, 1939) is a former middle-weight boxer and current Auditor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. At 10 years old, he started working in a bowling alley as a pin boy, someone who picks up the pins and racks them. A few years later, he met Red Sox baseball player Ted Williams while working in a pharmacy in Newton Highlands.
- Arne Carlson
Arne Helge Carlson (born September 24, 1934) is an American politician active in the state of Minnesota. He was born in New York City attended Choate Rosemary Hall and graduated from Williams College in 1957. He served one term on the Minneapolis City Council from 1965 to 1967 and was the Republican candidate for mayor in 1967, losing to Democratic-Farmer-Labor incumbent Arthur Naftalin.
- John Lawrence
John Gordon Michael Lawrence (29 September 1915 - 14 November 2002) was a leading far left activitist in a wide variety of groups in the United Kingdom.
- Kate Witek
Kate Witek is the former Democratic Auditor of Public Accounts of Nebraska. She was first elected in November 1998. She was reelected in 2002, however she was defeated in her attempt for a third term in 2006.
- Paul van Buitenen
Paul van Buitenen (born 28 May, 1957 in Breda) is a Member of the European Parliament for the Netherlands and a former European civil servant. He was a Dutch assistant-auditor in the European Commission’s Financial Control Directorate becoming the whistleblower who first drew the attention of a Member of the European Parliament to the irregularities, fraud and mismanagement within the Commission in 1998.
- Barbara Roberts
Barbara K. Roberts (born on December 21, 1936 in Corvallis, Oregon) is a Democratic politician. She served as Governor of Oregon from 1991 to 1995, the first and, to date, only woman to be elected to that office. Roberts is a fourth generation Oregonian and grew up in Sheridan, Oregon, where she graduated from Sheridan High School. She attended Portland State University from 1961 to 1964 and, later, …
- Inga-Britt Ahlenius
Inga-Britt Monica Stigsdotter Ahlenius, born April 19 1939 in Karlstad. Sweden, is a Swedish auditor and public servant, currently serving as Under-Secretary-General for United Nations Office of Internal Oversight Services. Ahlenius holds a degree in business administration from the Stockholm School of Economics and started her career working in the economic secretariat of Sweden's largest commercial bank, Handelsbanken.
- Mark Harper
Mark James Harper (born 26 February 1970) British politician and accountant. He is the Conservative Member of Parliament for Forest of Dean.
- John McMahon
Colonel Sir John McMahon, 1st Baronet was a British politician and Private Secretary to the Sovereign 1811–1817. McMahon was a British Army officer, and served as a Member of Parliament for Aldeburgh from 1802 to 1812. He was Paymaster of Widows Pensions in 1812. He was Keeper of the Privy Purse, Auditor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and Secretary to the Duke of Cornwall. A proposal that he receive a salary of £2,000 as Private Secretary was rejected by Parliament in 1812.
- Lorna Marsden
Lorna Marsden (born March 6, 1942) is a Canadian sociologist, academic, and former politician. She is the President and Vice-Chancellor of York University and a former senator. Born in Sidney, British Columbia, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in 1968 and a Ph.D from Princeton University in 1972. In 1972, she joined the University of Toronto where she was a Professor of Sociology.
- Brent Edison
Brent Edison (b. 1956, Milnor, North Dakota) is an attorney and Democratic-NPL politician from North Dakota. He has unsuccessfully ran for both State Auditor in 2004 and for State Tax Commissioner in 2006. Edison's campaign for Tax Commissioner was tarnished when it was publicized that he was fired from a state agency, Workforce Safety and Insurance, after reportedly creating a hostile work environment. Edison is a native of Milnor.
- Bill Dodd
William Joseph "Bill" Dodd held some half dozen important positions in Louisiana government in the mid-twentieth century, including the offices of state representative, lieutenant governor, state auditor, president of the State Board of Education, and state education superintendent, but he never achieved his ultimate goal: the state's powerful Napoleonic-style governorship. Twice Dodd failed to win the pivotal Democratic gubernatorial nomination: 1952 and 1959.
- James A. Bell
James A. Bell is corporate president, chief financial officer and an executive vice president of The Boeing Company, the world's largest aerospace company. He was named as acting CFO in November 2003 and formally elected to the position by the Boeing board of directors in January 2004. From March through June 2005, in addition to his CFO duties Bell served as Boeing president and chief executive officer on an interim basis. He was appointed corporate president in June 2008.
- Jacques Attali
Jacques Attali French writer, music critic, statesman
- Michael Peat
Sir Michael Charles Gerrard Peat KCVO (born November 16, 1949) was appointed as the private secretary to the Charles, Prince of Wales in 2002 and was made Principal Private Secretary to The Prince of Wales and HRH The Duchess of Cornwall in 2005. Peat was born in 1949 and is great-grandson of William Barclay Peat, founder of the accountancy firm of Peat Marwick. He was educated at Eton College and at Trinity College, University of Oxford, …
- Simon Hamilton
Simon Hamilton MLA is a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland. He was elected in 2007 to the Northern Ireland Assembly as a Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) member for Strangford. Hamilton was educated at Regent House School and Queen's University, Belfast holding degrees in history/politics and law. He served as Chairman of the Queen's Unionist Association and as a member of Queen's University Senate.
- George Croghan
George Croghan (c. 1720 - August 31, 1782) was a prominent American colonist and early advocate of westward expansion. He was an experienced Indian agent and fur trader. His name is also seen spelled as "Crogan" and "Crowgan", and is said to have been pronounced with a silent "g". George Croghan was born in Dublin, Ireland around 1720, moved to Colonial America in 1741, and became a fur trader in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
- François Legault
François Legault is a politician in Quebec, Canada, and a member of the National Assembly of Quebec. A member of the Parti Québécois (PQ), he was first elected in the 1998 Quebec election in the riding of Rousseau in the Lanaudière region. Legault has a bachelor's and master's degree in business administration from the HEC Montreal. He worked as an administrator for Provigo, a finance director for Nationair and an auditor for Ernst & Young.
- Gunilla Carlsson
Gunilla Carina Carlsson is a Swedish Moderate Party politician, currently Minister for Development Cooperation and a member of the Riksdag och deputy chairman of her party. She was born and raised in Vadstena in Östergötland. She was at one time chairman of the Moderate Youth League district in that county. At The Battle of Lycksele, when current party leader Fredrik Reinfeldt was elected chairman of the Youth League, Carlsson was elected vice chairman.
- Ralph J. Perk
Ralph Joseph Perk (January 19, 1914 - April 21, 1999) was an American politician of the Republican Party who served as the 52nd mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. Perk served five terms on Cleveland City Council from the city's Ward 13. In 1962, Perk was elected auditor of Cuyahoga County, the first Republican to win countywide office in a half century. He was re-elected in 1966 and again in 1970. In 1969, Perk ran for mayor of Cleveland and was defeated in the general election.
- Roberto Penna
Roberto Penna was an Italian athlete. He competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London. Penna placed second with a time of 52.4 seconds in his preliminary heat of the 400 metres, not advancing to the semifinals.
- Guillaume Durand
Guillaume Durand also known as Durandus, Duranti or Durantis, from the Italian form of Durandi filius, as he sometimes signed himself, was a French canonist and liturgical writer, and Bishop of Mende. He was born at Puimisson, near Béziers, of a noble family of Languedoc. He studied law at Bologna, with Bernardus of Parma, and by about 1264 was teaching Canon law with success at Modena.
- Robert Arbuthnot
Robert Arbuthnot, Auditor of the Exchequer in Scotland, (d. August 4, 1727) was also sometime manager of Lord Stair's business affairs. On May 16, 1709, John Philp and Robert Arbuthnot received a commission from the King as joint Auditors, without power of deputation. He died in Lord Stair's house in Hanover Square, London. After his death Dr John Arbuthnot was requested to be present at the opening of his papers "to see if it were worth while for his wife, …
- Philip Sherman
Philip Sherman was a prominent leader in early Rhode Island and one of its founders. His last name is sometimes spelled Shearman, which reveals the family’s ancient involvement with shearing sheep and the wool industry. Sherman was born in 1610 in Dedham, Essex, England. He was the son of Samuel and Phillippa (Ward) Sherman. In 1633 Sherman came to America during the great Puritan migration. He settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
- Ana Frohmiller
Ana Frohmiller (1891-1971) was a leading female politician in Arizona from the 1930s through the 1950s. She became the first woman to serve as State Auditor, to which she was elected in 1926. Frohmiller served until 1950 when she ran an unsuccessful campaign for Governor against Howard Pyle.
- Solomon Sibley
Solomon Sibley was a United States politician and jurist in the Michigan Territory.
- Anilkumar Nair
A never married bachelor graduate engineer with 31 years service in Indian Private sector industries at senior managment levels,now retired and operating as a Project Consultant with ISO Certification/Audit & Tutoring Where there is a will there is a way
- James W. McDill
James Wilson McDill (March 4, 1834 - February 28, 1894) was a United States Representative and Senator from Iowa. Born in Monroe, Ohio, he attended the common schools, Hanover College, and South Salem Academy (South Salem, Ohio); he graduated from Miami University (in Oxford, Ohio) in 1853. He studied law in Columbus, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar in 1856. He moved to Afton, Iowa and commenced practice; he was elected superintendent of Union County, Iowa, …
- William Addams
William Addams (April 11, 1777-May 30, 1858) was a Pennsylvania State Representative and United States Congressman. He was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1777. He moved to Berks County, Pennsylvania near Reading, and served as auditor there in 1813 and 1814. He then served on the Berks County commission from 1814 through 1817. In 1822, he was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, serving in that body through 1824.
- Benjamin Howland
Benjamin Howland (July 27, 1755 - May 1, 1821) was a United States Senator from Rhode Island. Born in Tiverton, he attended the common schools, engaged in agricultural pursuits, was collector of taxes in 1801, town auditor in 1802, and town moderator in 1805. He was a member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives in 1810 and a general in the State militia during the War of 1812.
- Joseph R. West
Joseph Rodman West (September 19, 1822 - October 31, 1898) was a United States Senator from Louisiana and a general in the United States Army during and after the American Civil War. He led the troops that killed famed Apache chief Mangas Coloradas. Born in New Orleans, he moved with his parents to Philadelphia in 1824 and was educated in private schools.
- Edmund Dunch
Edmund Dunch (or Dunche) (14 December 1657 Westminster - 31 May 1719 Little Wittenham) was Master of the Royal Household to Queen Anne and a British Member of parliament (MP). He was a MP for Cricklade, Wiltshire (1701-1702 and 1705-1713), Boroughbridge, Yorkshire (1713-1715), and Wallingford, then Berkshire (now Oxfordshire) from 1715-1719. He held the royal title of Master of the Household from 1708-1712. He was also a member of the Kit-Kat Club, …
- Marc Koska
Marc Koska OBE was born in Bournemouth on 14th March 1961. He is best known for inventing the K1 syringe, a syringe that automatically disables, helping heathcare workers avoid accidental needlesticks.