- Susan Blow
Susan Elizabeth Blow (born June 7, 1843 in Carondelet, Missouri - died March 26, 1916 in New York City) was a United States educator who opened the first successful public kindergarten in the United States. Her father, Henry Taylor Blow, was a U.S. Representative and Ambassador. Her grandfather, Captain Peter Blow, was the long time owner of Dred Scott. Blow was devoted to the theories developed by Friedrich Froebel.
- David Blow
David Mervyn Blow (born June 27, 1931 in Birmingham, England; died June 8, 2004 in Appledore, England) was an influential British biophysicist. He was best known for the development of X-ray crystallography, a technique used to determine the molecular structures of tens of thousands of biological molecules. This has been extremely important to the pharmaceutical industry. As a youth, Blow attended Kingswood School in Bath, England, …
- John Blow
John Blow (1649 - October 1, 1708) was an English composer and organist. His pupils included William Croft and Henry Purcell. Blow was probably born at North Collingham in Nottinghamshire. He became a chorister of the Chapel Royal, and distinguished himself by his proficiency in music. He composed several anthems at an unusually early age, including "Lord, Thou host been our refuge", "Lord, rebuke me not" and the so-called "club anthem", …
- Sandra Blow
Sandra Blow studied at St Martin’s School of Art from 1941 to 1946, at the Royal Academy Schools from 1946 to 1947, and subsequently at the Academy of Fine Arts, Rome from 1947 to 1948. She travelled to Spain and France in the late 1940s, worked in Cornwall for a year from 1957 to 1958 and went on to teach at the Royal College of Art from 1960. An abstract painter who has also used materials such as polyethylene, and willow cane to construct pictures.
- Detmar Blow
Detmar Jellings Blow (1867 - 1939) was a British architect of the early 20th century, who designed principally in the arts and crafts style. His clients belonged chiefly to the British aristocracy, and later he became estates manager to the Duke of Westminster.
- Jonathan Blow
Jonathan Blow is a programmer and designer who works primarily on advanced and experimental video games. His game "Braid" is a meditation on loss and relationships where the player controls time to solve puzzles. Braid won the "Game Design" award at the Independent Games Festival in 2006. For many years he wrote the Inner Product column for Game Developer Magazine.
- Isabella Blow
Isabella Blow was a British magazine editor and international style icon. The muse of hat designer Philip Treacy, she is credited with discovering the models Stella Tennant and Sophie Dahl as well as the fashion designer Alexander McQueen. She studied for her A-levels at Heathfield School, after which she enrolled at a secretarial college and then took odd jobs. As she told Tamsin Blanchard of "The Observer" in 2002, "I've done the most peculiar jobs.
- Kurtis Blow
Kurtis Blow (born Curtis Walker, 9 August 1959, Harlem, New York) is one of the first commercially successful rappers and the first to sign with a major label. "The Breaks", a single from his 1980 debut album, is an early hip hop classic.
- Godfrey Blow
Godfrey Blow (born October 6, 1948) is an artist based in Kalamunda, Western Australia. He is the founder of the Perth Stuckists.
- Henry Taylor Blow
Henry Taylor Blow was a U.S. Representative and Ambassador from Missouri. Born in Southampton County, Virginia to Captain Peter and Elizabeth Taylor Blow, owners of the slave Dred Scott, Blow and his family moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1830 where he attended Saint Louis University from 1830 to 1831. He engaged in the paint and oil business and later in lead mines in which he found his wealth.
- Ray Liotta
Intense is the word for Ray Liotta. He specializes in psychopathic characters who hide behind a cultivated charm. Even in his nice guy roles in Field of Dreams (1989) and Operation Dumbo Drop (1995), you get the impression that something is smoldering inside of him. Liotta maintains a steady stream of work, completing multiple projects per year.
- Emma Roberts
Emma Rose Roberts (born February 10 1991) is an American actress, the daughter of actor Eric Roberts and the niece of actresses Lisa Roberts Gillan and Julia Roberts. Roberts made her acting debut at the age of nine in the film "Blow" and is known for her role as the lead character in the Nickelodeon television series "Unfabulous", as well as for her role in the films "Aquamarine" and "Nancy Drew". Roberts is also a pop singer; her debut album, …
- George Jung
George Jacob Jung was a major player in cocaine importation in the United States in the 1970s and early 80s. Jung was a part of the Medellín Cartel. His life story was portrayed in the 2001 movie "Blow", starring Johnny Depp.
- Ted Demme
Ted Demme, born in New York, New York, was an American film director and producer. He grew up in Rockville Centre on Long Island, New York and attended South Side Senior High School. He was the nephew of movie producer and director Jonathan Demme. His career had modest beginnings - starting as a production assistant at MTV, he later created the cable network's seminal hip-hop show "Yo! MTV Raps" and directed other projects for them, …
- Anastasia Blue
Anastasia Blue (born November 6, 1975 in Anchorage, Alaska) is a former American pornographic actress. An avid performer with few, if any, inhibitions during her explosive porn career, Anastasia was an immediate favourite among porn fans when she made her hardcore debut in 1999. Her natural, youthful 'girl-next-door' appeal belied a scathing on-screen persona which frequently made use of her famous penchant for aggressive, over-the-top oral sex performances, …
- Franka Potente
Franka Potente (born on July 22, 1974) is a German film actress. She began her career in the comedy "It's a Jungle Out There" (1995) and gained critical recognition in the action thriller "Run Lola Run" (1998). After half a decade of critically acclaimed roles in German films, Potente gained Hollywood's attention by playing the role of Barbara Buckley in "Blow" (2001) and the female lead opposite Matt Damon in "The Bourne Identity" (2002).
- Paul Reubens
Paul Reubens (born Paul Rubenfeld on August 27, 1952) is an American actor, writer, and comedian, known professionally for his character Pee-wee Herman. As Pee-wee, Reubens starred in the television series "Pee-wee's Playhouse" from 1986 until 1990. He also starred in an HBO special called "The Pee-wee Herman Show", the 1985 movie "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" and the 1988 movie "Big Top Pee-wee".
- Cliff Curtis
Clifford Vivian Devon Curtis is a New Zealand actor. He has shown the ability to portray foreign characters - particularly Latin Americans and Arabs - because of his Māori descent, and appeared as a character actor in many Hollywood films, while back home in New Zealand he is usually the main star. He acted in the New Zealand film "Once Were Warriors" as Uncle Bully, a child rapist. He has starred opposite many big names in Hollywood such as Bruce Willis, …
- Miguel Sandoval
Miguel Sandoval (born November 16, 1951) is an American film and television actor. He was born in Washington, D.C.. Sandoval began working as a professional actor in 1975 when he joined a mime school in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He later joined the troupe full time and continued his study of pantomime. He began his film career in the early 1980s. He had small roles in such acclaimed films "Do the Right Thing", "Jungle Fever", and "Jurassic Park".
- Omar Cruz
"Omar Cruz" (formerly known as Blunts LLA) is a West Coast rapper. Born in Los Angeles by a Colombian father and a Mexican mother, Omar initially used the nickname Blunts and added LLA to stand for "Latin Lyrical Assassin." Currently, he has released two mixtapes entitled "City of Gods" and "Blow", the latter of which caught the attention of Interscope Records, leading to a signing of Cruz's independent label, BYI Entertainment, …
- Jordi Mollà
Jordi Mollà is an actor, film maker and artist. His artwork is represented in Carmen De la Guerra Gallery in Madrid, PicassoMio Gallery in Madrid and Barcelona and Cold Creation Gallery in Barcelona. In the summer of 2002 he exhibited in ARCO at the Carmen de la Guerra Gallery along with a number of other artists. As an actor, Mollà is most recognized in the United States for his role as Diego Delgado in "Blow" (Ted Demme, 2001), his debut Hollywood film.
- Catherine Bott
Catherine Bott (September 11, 1952) is an English soprano with an international reputation as a baroque specialist. Following her studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, with Arthur Reckless, she began her career as a member of the English baroque-jazz crossover group, the Swingles. By 1980 she had begun appearing frequently in the New London Consort and thereafter began performing across the world in Europe, …
- Carlos Lehder
Carlos Enrique Lehder Rivas or simply Carlos Lehder is an imprisoned Colombian drugdealer and co-founder of the Medellín Cartel. Lehder eventually ran a cocaine transport empire on Norman's Cay island, 210 miles off the Florida coast at the southern end of the Bahamas. Lehder was allegedly also active in the Quintín Lamé Movement, an indigenous guerrilla organization tied to the Colombian 19th of April Movement and FARC insurgencies.
- Dan Ferro
Dan Ferro is an American actor, best known for his role as Tommy Ortega in the 1980s television series "Falcon Crest". He later appeared in the 2001 film "Blow."
- Paul Haslinger
Paul Haslinger (born 1962) is an Austrian-born composer and musician currently based in Los Angeles, California. After studying classical music in Vienna, Austria, Haslinger joined the German electronic music group, Tangerine Dream in 1986. During the following 5 years he recorded a total of 15 albums with the group, participated in 4 international tours and collaborated on a number of soundtracks, including "Miracle Mile", "Near Dark", …
- Richard Barile
Richard Barile was an accomplice of George Jung in his marijuana and cocaine smuggling racket. In the movie Blow, his character, renamed Derek Foreal, was portrayed by Paul Reubens. Jung, more commonly known as Boston George, was one of the biggest smugglers of cocaine in the 1970s. Jung and his smuggling partner Carlos Lehder would fly hundreds of kilos of cocaine from Pablo Escobar's Colombian ranch to the U.S. where Barile, …
- Mark Bedford
Mark Bedford (born Mark William Bedford, 24 August 1961, London), nicknamed 'Bedders', is a bass guitarist and youngest member of the British second wave ska band, Madness. Bedford attended William Ellis School in Kentish Town and met with members of the North London Invaders when they played a gig there. He was asked along to a band rehearsal and found that the older lads could play quite well. Bedford was friends with Gary Dovey who was playing drums with the band, …
- Bill Gates
"Swiftwater" Bill Gates was an American frontiersman and fortune hunter, and a fixture in stories of the Klondike Gold Rush. He made and lost several fortunes, and died in Seattle in 1935. Despite the similarity in name and geography, there is no apparent family relationship between "Swiftwater Bill" and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
- Monica Lewinsky
Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is an American woman with whom the former United States President Bill Clinton admitted to having a sexual relationship while Lewinsky worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996. Its repercussions in the impeachment of Bill Clinton and the surrounding scandals of 1997-99 became known as the Lewinsky scandal, or "Monicagate". The scandal severely affected Clinton's second term and gave Lewinsky significant notoriety.
- Joe Blow
found this.
- John Blow
'The time has come for colds and overcoats'.
- Brett Danzer
I bust like the 2nd guy... >.
- Richard Brautigan
Richard Gary Brautigan (January 30, 1935 – September 14 (?), 1984) was an American writer, best known for the novel "Trout Fishing in America". The poet Michael McClure said of Brautigan's work, "There's nothing resembling it in American writing. It's as West Coast as a Douglas fir, but more broadly it's peculiarly American and Rube Goldbergian. This writing goes beyond eccentricity and into vision at times, and at others it is personal symptomology.
- Neil Simon
Neil Simon (born Marvin Neil Simon July_4, 1927 in The Bronx, New York City), is a Jewish American playwright and screenwriter. He is one of the most reliable hitmakers in Broadway history, as well as one of the most performed playwrights in the world. Simon briefly attended New York University in 1946. Two years later, he quit his job as a mailroom clerk in the Warner Brothers offices in Manhattan to write radio and television scripts with his brother Danny Simon.
- Khaela Maricich
Khaela Maricich is a Portland, Oregon-based K Records pop musician, visual artist, and performer. She is a native of Seattle's Queen Anne Hill, lived in Olympia, Washington for a decade, and was recently the artist-in-residence at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. She is formerly of the band The Microphones. Until 2002, her solo music was known either as "Get the Hell Out of the Way of the Volcano", "Get the Hell Out of the Way of the Wave", or "Khaela Maricich".
- Missy Cleveland
Amanda (Missy) Hodges Cleveland (born December 25, 1959 in Jackson, Mississippi - August 14, 2001 in Yazoo City, Mississippi) was an American model and actress. She was "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month for the April 1979 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Mario Casilli. Missy was discovered by "Playboy" through the magazine's 25th Anniversary Great Playmate Hunt, a contest she entered after being prodded by her mother.
- Young Snipe
Young Snipe (born c.1985), also referring to himself as Ben Frank, is an American rapper and record producer from Memphis, Tennessee. His career began with the group, Young Trojanz, which was on "Out Da Woods Records". But due to legal trobles on the label, the the group disbanned. Snipe signed with Lil Jon's B.M.E label and produced the "Da Blow" track on the "Crunk Juice" album, but has since then left.
- Frank M. Robinson
Frank M. Robinson (born 1926) is a science fiction and techno-thriller writer. Three of his novels have been made into movies. "The Power" (1956) was a supernatural science fiction and government conspiracy novel about people with superhuman skills, filmed in 1968 as "The Power". The technothriller "The Glass Inferno" was combined with Richard Martin Stern's "The Tower" to produce the 1974 movie "The Towering Inferno".
- Jona Bechtolt
Jona Bechtolt is an electronic musician from Portland, Oregon. He has been releasing records under the name "YACHT" since 2001. He was half of the pop duo The Blow, providing beats and music for the vocals of Khaela Maricich until June of 2007. He is a co-founder of the Portland-based popular blogging web community Urban Honking as well as the producer, editor, cameraman and a writer of The Ultimate Blogger. Jona Bechtolt is a technological multi talent.
- Joe Blow
I am the coolest mother fucker ever born i love watching tv and blazing, i mean how cool is that i also love partying, especially with pretty ladies.