- John Travolta
John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning American actor and singer. He established his career as a leading Hollywood actor with films such as "Saturday Night Fever" and "Grease". Travolta enjoyed a career revival in the 1990s, stemming from his role in "Pulp Fiction". - Lily Tomlin
Lily Tomlin (born September 1, 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress, comedian, writer and producer. Tomlin's body of work, which has spanned over 40 years, has garnered her several Tony Awards and Emmy Awards, as well as a Grammy Award. - Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell was born in North Carolina and grew up in Harlem. As with many others in his neighborhood, he left home early and did not finish high school. The next few years were difficult ones, but eventually he joined the Marine Corps and became a photographer in the Korean War. After leaving the service, Sowell entered Harvard University, worked a part-time job as a photographer and studied the science that would become his passion and profession: economics. - Fantasia Barrino
Fantasia Monique Barrino (born June 30 1984), or simply Fantasia, is a Grammy nominated, award-winning, American pop, R&B, soul singer and Broadway actress who rose to fame as the winner of the third season of the television series "American Idol" in 2004. Her first album, "Free Yourself", was a commercial success, earning her three Grammy nominations and selling over 2.1 million copies. - Mike Leigh
Mike Leigh OBE (born February 20, 1943) is an English film and theatre director. - Richard Engel
Richard Engel is NBC News' Middle East correspondent and Beirut Bureau chief. Prior to joining NBC News in May 2003, he covered the start of the 2003 war in Iraq from Baghdad for ABC News as a freelance journalist. He speaks and reads fluent Arabic and is also fluent in Italian and Spanish. Engel wrote the book "A Fist in the Hornet's Nest", published in 2004, about his experience covering the Iraq war from Baghdad. A winner of the Edward R. Murrow award, … - Gloria Stuart
Gloria Stuart (born July 4, 1910) is an American stage, television and film actress and artist. - Don Fernando
Don Fernando (born April 12, 1948) is a director and actor of pornographic films. He has been in the pornography business since 1977 and has won the Best Supporting Actor award twice (1995 and in 2005) during the Festival de Cine Erotica-Barcelona. Fernando has won the award for Best Actor at the 2006 EXPOSEX Madrid Awards Gala, and was inducted into the X-Rated Critics Organization Hall of Fame in 1997. - Bill Kurtis
Bill Kurtis (born September 21, 1940) is a television journalist and producer best known as the host of numerous A&E crime and news documentary shows, including "Investigative Reports", "American Justice", and "Cold Case Files". Previously he anchored "The CBS Morning News" and was a popular news anchor of the CBS affiliate in Chicago. - Miroslav Volf
Miroslav Volf (Born in Osijek, Croatia - 1956), is an influential Christian theologian and currently the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale University Divinity School and Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. He has been a member in both the Presbyterian Church (USA) and the Evangelical Church in Croatia. He is widely known for his works on systematic theology, ethics, conflict resolution, and peace-making. - Benjamin Zander
Benjamin Zander (born March 9, 1939, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, England) is an English-American conductor. He is the music director of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and a faculty member at the New England Conservatory. He is known for his interpretations of the works of Gustav Mahler and his popular pre-concert lectures. - Isabel Bayrakdarian
Isabel Bayrakdarian is a world-renowned Armenian-Canadian soprano. Her first recording, titled “Joyous Light”, was released in March 2002 and rose to No. 1 in the Canadian classical charts. Soon afterwards, her vocals were featured in Atom Egoyan’s film "Ararat", and in the movie "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers". - Alex Chadwick
For more than 30 years, Alex Chadwick has been bringing the world to NPR listeners as an NPR News producer, program host and currently senior correspondent. He's reported from every continent except Antarctica. From its launch in 2003 to Fall 2008, Chadwick was co-host of NPR's Day to Day , a weekday, one-hour newsmagazine produced by NPR in collaboration with Slate Magazine. - Kim Holland
Kim Holland (born 1955) is an American politician from the US state of Oklahoma. Holland is currently serving as the Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner. She was appointed to that position by Governor Brad Henry in 2005, following the indictment and resignation of her predecessor, Carroll Fisher. She is the second woman to serve to as the Insurance Commissioner. In 2006 she was elected Insurance Commissioner against Republican opponent, Bill Case. - William J. Bratton
William Joseph 'Bill' Bratton is currently the 54th Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), and was formerly Commissioner of the New York City Police Department, the only person to hold both positions. Born on October 6, 1947, Bratton is a native of Boston, Massachusetts. He attended Boston Technical High School, graduating in 1965. From there, he served in the Military Police Corps of the United States Army during the Vietnam War, … - Pat Jennings
Patrick Anthony Jennings OBE (born June 12 1945 in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland) is a former football player. He played 119 games for Northern Ireland as a goalkeeper, a figure which at the time was a world record (and is incidentally still a Northern Ireland record), in an international career which lasted for over 22 years. Jennings is considered one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time. During his career Jennings played in over 1,000 top level games, … - Rubem Fonseca
Rubem Fonseca (born May 11, 1925) is an important Brazilian writer. He was born in Juiz de Fora, state of Minas Gerais, on May 11, 1925, but he lived for most of his life in Rio de Janeiro. In 1952, he started his career in the police and became a policy commissioner. Even though, he refuses to do interviews and is a very reclusive person, much like Thomas Pynchon, who is a personal friend of Fonseca. - Alex McDowell
Alex McDowell was born in Borneo to parents of English origin, and he is a production designer. McDowell wanted to become a painter and studied at the Central School of Art in London. He founded Rocking Russian Design in 1978 and started his career designing album covers for punk rock groups. During the 1980s, he designed the sets for various commercials and music videos. Alex McDowell has worked, among others, with the directors Tim Burton, … - Prince Gomolvilas
Prince Gomolvilas (born August 28, 1972) is a Thai American playwright. He has written and produced many plays in the United States and won several distinctive awards. He was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of Thai-born parents. His family moved to California when he was age seven and he spent most of his youth in Monrovia. He attended San Francisco State University and received a BA in film and screenwriting and an MFA in creative writing and playwriting. - E. Fuller Torrey
Edwin Fuller Torrey, M.D. (b.September 6, 1937, Utica, New York), is an American psychiatrist and schizophrenia researcher. He is Associate Director for Laboratory Research at the Stanley Medical Research Institute (SMRI). Torrey is president of the board of the Treatment Advocacy Center (TAC), … - Steve Byers
Steve Byers (born December 13, 1976 in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada), is an actor. At a young age he had a passion for acting. Graduating with the top award for Excellence in Drama from the Arts program at Unionville High School, Byers continued his study of the acting craft at the University of Western Ontario's Film Program. Known for good looking characteristics including blonde hair, sapphire blue eyes, and his physique, … - Loretta Claiborne
Loretta Claiborne is an African-American global speaker who competes in the Special Olympics. She also won the Arthur Ashe ESPY award for courage presented to her by Denzel Washington. - Ray D'Arcy
Ray D'Arcy (born September 1, 1964) is an Irish television and radio presenter. - Russ Abbot
Russ Abbot (born Russell A. Roberts, 16 September 1947, in Chester, Cheshire) is an English musician, comedian, and actor. - Lucien Ballard
Lucien Ballard was an American cinematographer and director of photography. Born in Miami, Oklahoma, Ballard began working on films at Paramount Studios in 1929. He later joked in an interview that it was a three day party at the home of actress Clara Bow that convinced him "this is the business for me". He began his career loading trucks at Paramount, and became a camera assistant, often working for director Josef von Sternberg. - P. Roy Vagelos
Dr. Vagelos served as Chief Executive Officer of Merck & Co., Inc. for nine years, from July 1985 to June 1994. He was first elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 and served as its Chairman from April 1986 to November 1994. He was previously Executive Vice President of the worldwide health products company and, before that, President of its Research Division, which he joined in 1975. - Hagai Shaham
Hagai Shaham is an Israeli violin virtuoso. Born in 1966, he began studying the violin at the age of six and was the last student of the late renowned Professor Ilona Feher. As a soloist he has performed with many of the world's major orchestras, including the English Chamber Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Belgian National Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique Francais, Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra, … - Allen Cohen
Allen Cohen's work includes music for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo instruments, and voice. Currently Associate Professor of Music at Fairleigh Dickinson University, he has also taught at Hunter College, New York University, and Manhattanville College, and has received a Meet the Composer grant and several ASCAP Plus awards. He received a doctorate in composition from the City University of New York, where he studied with Thea Musgrave, Bruce Saylor, … - Daniel Horton
Daniel Horton (April 21, 1984) is a professional basketball player. After going undrafted, he was signed by the Miami Heat during the 2006 preseason but was waived before the start of the regular season. Horton attended Cedar Hill High School in Cedar Hill, Texas (a suburb of Dallas). He graduated in 2002. Horton played four seasons for University of Michigan, from 2002 to 2006. He was voted to the All-Big Ten First Team (by media). He was voted All-Big Ten Second Team (by coaches). - Chip Franklin
Chip Franklin is a comedian in the Baltimore, Washington DC area and host of a talk show on WBAL AM 1090 in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a self-described libertarian. Franklin often uses humor to voice his opinion on government policies. He has won the National Edward R. Murrow award and two regional Murrows for his satiric essays on politics. He has also won five Achievement in Radio BEST TALK SHOW HOST awards. Franklin has appeared numerous times on The O'Reilly Factor, … - Aaron Lansky
Aaron Lansky (b. 1955) is the founder of the National Yiddish Book Center, an organization he created to help salvage Yiddish language publications. When he began saving books in the early 1980s, most experts believe that there were fewer than 70,000 Yiddish volumes extant. Lansky feared that this literature would be lost. The National Yiddish Book Center now has more than 15 million books. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1989 for his work. - Rudi van Dantzig
Rudi van Dantzig (Amsterdam, August 4 1933), is a Dutch choreographer, ballet dancer and writer. Since 1965 he is co-artistic leader of "Het Nationale Ballet" (Amsterdam, The Netherlands). After Sonia Gaskell (left in 1969) and his other colleague left in 1971, he was the only artistic leader, till 1991. In 1986 he wrote a novel Voor een verloren soldaat, which became a great success. It was awarded several times and a film was made of it. An English translation, … - Jack Graney
John Gladstone Graney was a Canadian left fielder in Major League Baseball who played his entire career with the Cleveland Indians (1908, 1910-1922). He was born in St. Thomas, Ontario. On June 26, 1916, the Cleveland Indians used numbers on their uniforms on an experimental basis in a home game against the White Sox. The numbers, which were worn on the players' uniform sleeves, corresponded with information in the scorecards. - Nick Compton
Nicholas Richard Denis Compton (born Durban, South Africa June 26, 1983) is a South African-born English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-spin bowler. He is the grandson of Denis Compton and the great-nephew of Leslie Compton, and his father Richard Compton played a few first-class games for Natal. Nick Compton was educated at Harrow, where he captained the 1st XI and Durham University. - Walter Scott Jr.
Walter Scott, Jr. (1931-) born in Omaha, Nebraska. Civil engineer, philanthropist, former CEO of Peter Kiewit Sons' Incorporated, which has built more miles of the U.S. Interstate Highway System than any other contractor. Scott was the 1997 recipient of the Horatio Alger Award and ranked among the wealthiest 400 Americans by "Forbes" in 2002. He sits on the Board of Berkshire Hathaway. - Eleanor Farjeon
Eleanor Farjeon (February 13, 1881 - June 5, 1965) was an English author of stories and poems. Her father, Benjamin Farjeon, a writer of popular novels, encouraged her writing from the age of five; at eighteen she wrote the libretto for an operetta, "Floretta", to music by her older brother Harry, who later became a respected composer and teacher of music. Often written under a pseudonym, her poems appeared in "The Herald" (Tomfool), "Punch", … - Tim Winton
Timothy John Winton (born 1960), known as Tim Winton, is an acclaimed Australian novelist. He was born in Perth, Western Australia. - Neisha
Neisha (real name Neža Buh), born on January 5 1982 in Ljubljana, is a Slovenian pianist and pop singer. Being born into a music family, Neža's music talent were noticed during her childhood so she entered a music school (first in Cerkno, then in Škofja Loka) and continued at Ljubljana's High School of Music and Ballet. As she was very successful at several contests in piano music and solfeggio, … - Dipak C. Jain
Dipak C. Jain is dean of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. A marketing expert trained in mathematics and statistics, Jain assumed leadership of the school in 2001, after serving for five years as the school's associate dean for academic affairs working with Dean Donald P. Jacobs. More information can be found at Dipak C. Jain's faculty Web page. Dean Jain was born on June 9, 1957 in a small town called Tezpur, Assam, a northeast state of India. - Hans Ebeling
Hans Irvine Ebeling MBE (born 1 January 1905 in Avoca, Victoria, died 12 January 1980 in Melbourne) was an Australian cricketer and cricket administrator. He captained Victoria to two Sheffield Shield championships in four years (1934 and 1938), captained the Melbourne Cricket Club (MCC) to four premierships, and played in his sole Test match against England in 1934.
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