- Martin Scorsese
Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, writer and producer and founder of the World Cinema Foundation. He is also a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won an Academy Award as well as awards from the Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian American identity, …
- Terry McAuliffe
Terence Richard "Terry" McAuliffe (born February 9, 1957) is an American businessman, political consultant, and a Democratic candidate for the 2009 gubernatorial election in Virginia. Previously, he served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from 2001 to 2005. He also served as chairman of the 2008 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.
- Marc Newson
Marc Newson is one of the most accomplished and influential designers of his generation, having applied his funkily futuristic but technically rigorous approach to everything from a lounge chair to an airplane cabin, from a perfume bottle to a bicycle, from a concept car to a restaurant. In Pop On/Pop Off , his multiplicity of work is presented in a pop-up book of selected projects, packaged neatly in a box, and stuffed with a bonus T-shirt and buttons.
- John Morgan
John Willard Morgan is an American mathematician, well-known for his contributions to topology and geometry. He is currently Professor and Chair of the Mathematics Department at Columbia University.
- Jim Jeffords
James Merrill "Jim" Jeffords (born May 11, 1934) is a former U.S. Senator from Vermont. He served as a Republican until 2001, when he left the party to become an independent.
- Eve Ensler
Eve Ensler (born 25 May 1953 in Scarsdale, New York) is a Jewish American playwright and feminist activist best known for the play The Vagina Monologues.
- Sheila Kuehl
Sheila James Kuehl (born February 9, 1941 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American politician, and a former child actress. She is currently a Democratic member of the California State Senate, representing the highly urbanized 23rd district in Los Angeles County and parts of southern Ventura County.
- John Little
John D. C. Little is an Institute Professor and the Chair Management Science at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He formed the Little's law in 1961. It states: "The average number of customers in a system (over some interval) is equal to their average arrival rate, multiplied by their average time in the system." A corollary has been added: "The average time in the system is equal to the average time in queue plus the average time it takes to receive service." Prof.
- Joe Knollenberg
Joseph (Joe) Knollenberg (born November 28, 1933) is a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan, representing Michigan's 9th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. Knollenberg was born in Mattoon, Illinois and graduated from Eastern Illinois University in 1955. After graduation, he served in the United States Army from 1955 to 1957. He became an insurance agent and moved to Oakland County, Michigan in 1967.
- Jane Nelson
Jane Gray Nelson (born 5 October 1941) is the second highest ranking Republican in the Texas Senate and serves as Chairman of the Health & Human Services Committee. Senator Nelson is a former public school teacher who represents District 12 which includes parts of Denton and Tarrant Counties. Prior to serving on the Texas state Senate, she served two terms on the State Board of Education, leading the fight to correct more than 2,000 errors in school history textbooks.
- Chris Redfern
Chris Redfern (born 1964) is a Democratic State Representative for Ohio House District 80 and chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party. He won election to the chairmanship of the Ohio Democratic Party in December, 2005 and has been a member of the Ohio House since 1999. Mr. Redfern was born in Port Clinton, Ohio.
- Robert Kraft
Robert K. Kraft, (born June 5, 1941 in Brookline, Massachusetts) is the Founder, Chairman & CEO of the Kraft Group, a diversified holding company with assets in paper & packaging, sports & entertainment, real estate development and a private equity portfolio. His best known and most visible assets are the National Football League's New England Patriots and Major League Soccer's New England Revolution, as well as the stadium where they play, Gillette Stadium.
- Joe Simitian
Joe Simitian was elected to the California State Senate in November 2004 to represent the 11th State Senate District, which includes portions of San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties. His public service over the years includes stints as a State Assemblymember, member of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, Mayor of Palo Alto and President of the Palo Alto School Board.
- Jerome Groopman
Jerome Groopman has been a staff writer in medicine and biology for "The New Yorker" since 1998. He is also the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Experimental Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and author of four books. He has published approximately 150 scientific articles and has written several Op-Ed pieces on medicine for the "New York Times", the "Washington Post", …
- Janet Yellen
Janet L. Yellen took office on June 14, 2004, as president and chief executive officer of the Twelfth District Federal Reserve Bank, at San Francisco. In 2008, she serves as an alternate voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee. ...
- Allen Jones
Allen Jones is a British pop artist famous for his exhibition of erotic sculptures, like the set "Chair", "Table" and "Hat Stand" (1969), each of which turns a woman into an item of furniture. Much of his work draws on the imagery of rubber fetishism and BDSM. Jones was born in Southampton and from 1955 to 1961 studied at the Hornsey College of Art (London); from 1961 to 1963 he taught at Croydon College of Art.
- Carole Taylor
Carole Taylor, MLA, OC (born 1945) is a Canadian journalist and politician. She is currently British Columbia's Minister of Finance. She was chair of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from July 16, 2001, until March 14, 2005, when she resigned in order to seek the nomination of the British Columbia Liberal Party in that province's 2005 election. Previously, she served as an independent member of Vancouver City Council from 1986 to 1990.
- Krist Novoselic
Krist Anthony Novoselic is an American rock musician best known as the bassist for Nirvana. Apart from his musical endeavors, Novoselic has been active politically, including the creation of the political action committee JAMPAC. The original Croatian spelling of his surname is 'Novoselić' (English: Novoselich).
- Patrick Watson
Patrick Watson, C.C. (born December 23, 1929) has been a prolific and outspoken Canadian broadcaster, author, commentator and television writer, producer and director for five decades. Born in Toronto, Watson attended the University of Toronto and graduated with an MA, then completed his doctorate in Michigan. Watson first achieved national fame (and in some quarters, …
- Ernest Hollings
Ernest Frederick "Fritz" Hollings (born January 1 1922) served as a Democratic United States Senator from South Carolina from 1966 to 2005.
- Donald Evans
Donald Evans (born 1940) is a Welsh poet, who writes in the Welsh language. Evans comes from Talgarreg in Ceredigion. Between 1966 and 1972 he produced the periodical "Y Cardi". He won the "double" of crown and chair twice, once at the 1977 National Eisteddfod of Wales and again in 1980. In 2006 he was awarded a Ph. D. by the University of Wales, Lampeter for his work on strict-metre Welsh poetry submitted to eisteddfodau in the years 1955 - 1999
- Andy Clark
Andy Clark is a Professor of Philosophy and chair in Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Before this he was director of the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University in Bloomington. Previously, he taught at Washington University at St. Louis and the University of Sussex in England. Professor Clark’s papers and books deal with the philosophy of mind and he is considered a leading scientist in mind extension.
- Ira Katznelson
Ira Katznelson (Ph.D., Cambridge University, 1969) is an Americanist whose work has straddled comparative politics and political theory, as well a political and social history. He returned in the Fall 1994 to Columbia, where he had been an assistant and associate professor from 1969-1974.
- Thomas R. Carper
Thomas Richard "Tom" Carper (born January 23 1947) is an American economist and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He is a veteran of the Vietnam War, a member of the Democratic Party, a five-term U. S. Representative from Delaware, a two-term Governor of Delaware, and currently the junior U.S. Senator from Delaware. He was elected to a second term in 2006.
- Salma Yaqoob
Salma Yaqoob is the vice-chair of Respect – The Unity Coalition and a Birmingham City Councillor. She is also is the head of the Birmingham Stop the War Coalition and a spokesperson for Birmingham Central Mosque.
- Marise Payne
Marise Ann Payne (b. July 29 1964) is a Liberal Senator for the state of New South Wales in Australia. Senator Payne was appointed to the Senate on April 4, 1997, and elected in 2001 for a full term which began on July 1 2002. After growing up in Sydney and the NSW Southern Highlands, Senator Payne went on to complete her education at MLC School, Burwood and her Bachelor of Arts and Laws at the University of New South Wales.
- Sebastian Junger
Sebastian Junger (born 17 January 1962 in Belmont, Massachusetts) is an American author and journalist. He graduated from Concord Academy in 1980 and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University in cultural anthropology in 1984. He received a National Magazine Award in 2000 for "The Forensics of War," published in "Vanity Fair" in 1999. In 1997, with the publication of his work, "The Perfect Storm", he was touted as the new Hemingway, …
- Neal Lawson
Neal Lawson is a political commentator in the United Kingdom. Lawson writes regularly for "The Guardian" and the "New Statesman" about equality, democracy and the future of the left. He sometimes appears on TV and radio as a political commentator. He is chair of the fast-growing pressure group Compass, whose goal is a more equal and democratic world. He is author of the pamphlet "Dare More Democracy", …
- Tim Gill
Tim Gill (born October 18, 1953 in Hobart, Indiana) is an American computer software entrepreneur and gay rights activist. Early in his life, Gill showed both interest and talent in computer science first at Wheat Ridge High School in Jefferson County, Colorado, eventually studying the subject at University of Colorado at Boulder. After two jobs in high-tech at HP and a consulting services firm, Gill started his company, Quark, with a $2000 loan from his parents.
- Haleh Esfandiari
Haleh Esfandiari is director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where she had earlier been a fellow in 1995-96. Ms. Esfandiari has worked as a journalist in Iran and taught at the College of Mass Communication in Tehran. She served as deputy secretary general of the Women's Organization of Iran and was the deputy director of a foundation at which she was responsible for the activities of several museums and art and cultural centers.
- Richard Soley
Richard Mark Soley is the chair and CEO of Object Management Group, Inc. (OMG); as such, the vision and direction of the consortium are his responsibility. Soley joined OMG as Technical Director in 1989, leading the development of OMG's world-leading standardization process and the original CORBA® specification. In 1996, he led the effort to move into vertical market standards (starting with healthcare, finance, telecommunications and manufacturing) and modeling.
- Kemp Hannon
Kemp Hannon is a member of the New York State Senate, (R, C, I) from Nassau County. Sen. Hannon represents the 6th District which covers Levittown, Massapequa, Garden City, Uniondale, Hempstead, Farmingdale, Franklin Square, Bethpage, Salisbury, Garden City South, Plainview, Lakeview,Plainedge, Island Trees and East Meadow.
- Lisa Jardine
Lisa Jardine (born Lisa Anne Bronowski, April 12 1944) is a British historian of the early modern period. She is professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. She has authored several books including "The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London", "Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution" and "On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Career of Sir Christopher Wren".
- Martin Lancaster
Harold Martin Lancaster (born March 24, 1943) is the President of the North Carolina Community College System and former Chair of the National Council of State Directors of Community Colleges. He was also United States Representative from North Carolina from 1987 to 1995. Lancaster was raised on a tobacco farm in rural Wayne County, …
- Martha Escutia
Martha M. Escutia (born January 16, 1957), was a California State Senator from the 30th Assembly District. She represented the cities of Bell, Bell Gardens, Commerce, Cudahy, Huntington Park, Maywood, Montebello, Norwalk, Pico Rivera, Santa Fe Springs, South El Monte, South Gate, Whittier, and Vernon. She was first elected in 1992, to represent the largely Latino 50th Assembly District. She moved up to the Senate in 1998. She was termed out of office in 2006.
- Eric Ericson
Eric Ericson, is a Swedish choral conductor and influential choral teacher. He graduated from the Royal College of Music ("Kungl. Musikhögskolan") in Stockholm in 1943 and went on to complete his studies abroad, at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland, and in Germany, Britain, and the United States. Renowned for his innovative teaching methods and the wide-ranging nature of his repertoire, …
- Geraint Davies
Geraint Richard Davies (born 3 May 1960) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He was the Labour member of Parliament for Croydon Central, in London, until 2005 and was first elected in the 1997 election. He unsuccessfully stood in Croydon Central in 1992 & 2005 and in Croydon South in 1987. Davies served as a councillor for New Addington on Croydon Council from 1986 until his resignation in 1997 upon being elected as an MP. He was Council Leader and Chair of Housing.
- Brander Matthews
James Brander Matthews (born February 21, 1852 in New Orleans; died March 31, 1929 in New York City), was a U.S. writer and educator. Matthews was the first U.S. professor of dramatic literature. He graduated from Columbia College in 1871 and from Columbia Law School in 1873, but turned to a literary career. From 1892 to 1900 he was professor of literature at Columbia, and thereafter held the chair of dramatic literature.
- Rosie Boycott
Rosel Marie Boycott (born 13 May 1951), better known as Rosie Boycott, is a British journalist and feminist. She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College and read mathematics at the University of Kent. After working briefly for the radical magazine "Friends" in 1971, Boycott was responsible, with Marsha Rowe, for founding the feminist magazine "Spare Rib" in 1971. In 1973 she co-founded Virago Press, with Carmen Callil and Marsha Rowe, …
- Henry Copeland
Henry Copeland was an 18th century English cabinetmaker and furniture designer. He appears to have been the first manufacturing cabinetmaker who published designs for furniture. "A New Book of Ornaments" appeared in 1746, but it is not clear whether the engravings with this title formed part of a book, or were issued only in separate plates; a few of the latter are all that are known to exist.