- Linda Coffee
Linda Nellene Coffee (b. 1942) is an attorney living in Dallas, Texas. Ms. Coffee is best known for representing (along with her friend and co-counsel Sarah Weddington) Norma McCorvey (a.k.a. Jane Roe), a pregnant woman who desired an abortion, in the precedent-setting United States Supreme Court case "Roe v. Wade", in which many laws restricting abortion access were invalidated. - Peter Coffee
Until January, 2007 Peter Coffee was a commentator for Ziff Davis, where he was the Technology Editor of eWEEK, Ziff Davis Media's national news magazine of enterprise infrastructure. He has twenty years' experience in evaluating information technologies and practices as a developer, consultant, educator, and internationally published author and industry analyst. - Jerry Coffee
Gerald L. Coffee (born 1935) in Modesto, California, is a former 2006 Republican candidate for U.S. Senate from Hawaii. Coffee won the nomination, but suspended his campaign after heart surgery, and later formally withdrew. Coffee served in Vietnam where he was a POW for 7 years, much of it in the "Hanoi Hilton". His military decorations include the Silver Star, two awards of the Legion of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross, two Bronze Star Medals, the Air Medal, … - John Coffee
John R. Coffee (June 2, 1772-July 7, 1833) was an American planter and military leader. Born in Prince Edward County, Virginia, Coffee was a merchant and then a partner in land speculation with Andrew Jackson. Coffee married Mary Donelson, a relative of Jackson's wife, Rachel, in October 1809. At the beginning of the War of 1812, Coffee raised the 2nd Regiment of Volunteer Mounted Riflemen, comprised mostly of Tennessee militiamen (and a few Alabamians). - Harry B. Coffee
Harry Buffington Coffee (1890-1972) was a Nebraska democratic politician. Born near Harrison, Sioux Co., Nebraska on March 16, 1890, a son of Samuel Buffington Coffee and May Elizabeth Tisdale. Harry graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1913. He sold real estate and insurance in Chadron, Nebraska from 1914 to 1939. During World War I he was a second lieutenant in the Air Service in 1917 and 1918. Organized Coffee Cattle Co., Inc. - W. J. Coffee
William John Coffee (1774-1846) was an internationally renowned English artist and sculptor who worked in porcelain, plaster, and terra cotta. He also worked in oil paint, although this was not the medium for which he became famous. His early career was as a modeller for Duesbury at the china factory on Nottingham Road in Derby, England. The latter part of his life was spent in America. - John E. Coffee
John E. Coffee was a military leader and a United States Congressman for the state of Georgia. - John M. Coffee
John Main Coffee (January 23, 1897 - 1983) was a U.S. Representative from Washington. Born in Tacoma, Washington, Coffee attended the public schools. He was in the University of Washington at Seattle, A.B. and LL.B., 1920 and from the law department of Yale University, J.D., 1921. He was admitted to the bar in 1922 and commenced practice in Tacoma, Washington. Secretary to United States Senator C.C. Dill in 1923 and 1924. - Glenn Coffee
Virgil Glenn Coffee (Glenn Coffee) (born 1967) is an American lawyer and Republican politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Coffee is currently the first Co-President pro tempore of the Oklahoma Senate and will be the 41st President Pro Tempore and the first Republican to hold that office from July 1, 2007 through July 31, 2007. - Claire Coffee
Claire Coffee is an American actor. She was born in San Francisco, California and has a degree in theater from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. - John C. Coffee
John C. Coffee (born November 15 , 1944 ) is the Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law at Columbia Law School . He received his B.A. from Amherst College in 1966, his LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1969 and later an LL.M. (in taxation) from New York University School of Law . Following graduation from law school, was a Reginald Heber Smith fellow for one year, doing poverty law litigation in New York City. - Anthony Stewart Head
Anthony Head (born 20 February, 1954) is an English actor and musician who has appeared in theatre, television and films. He is most widely known for his role as Rupert Giles in the American television drama series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", as the Prime Minister in the British comedy show "Little Britain", as Dr. - Lenore J. Coffee
Lenore Jackson Coffee (b. 13 July 1896, San Francisco - 2 July 1984, Woodland Hills, California) was an American screenwriter who was twice nominated for an Academy Award for best Adapted Screenplay. The first time was for "Street of Chance" in 1929/1930, adapted from the story by Oliver H. P. Garrett, in collaboration with Howard Estabrook. The second was with Julius J. Epstein in 1938 for "Four Daughters", based on Fannie Hurst's novel, "Sister Act". - Baba Budan
Baba Budan was a 17th century Sufi, revered by both Muslims and Hindus, whose shrine is at Baba Budangiri, India. According to legend, he introduced coffee to India by bringing beans from the port of Mocha, Yemen. - Candido Portinari
Candido Portinari was one of the most important Brazilian painters and also a prominent and influential practitioner of the neo-realism style in painting. Born of Italian immigrants in a coffee plantation near Brodowski, in São Paulo Portinari studied at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes (ENBA) in Rio de Janeiro. In 1928 he won a gold medal at the ENBA and a trip to Paris where he stayed until 1930, when he returned to Brazil. - Manuel Marulanda
Pedro Antonio Marín, also known by his "nom de guerre", Manuel Marulanda Vélez, and nicknamed by his comrades "Tirofijo" (which means, "Sureshot"), apparently because of a reputed ability to accurately aim firearms. He is the main leader of the FARC-EP ("Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia - Ejército del Pueblo"). He was born on May 13, 1928 (a date that has been disputed), … - Ludwig Roselius
Ludwig Roselius was a German coffee merchant and founder of the company KAFFEE HAG. As a patron, he supported artists like Paula Modersohn-Becker and Bernard Hoetger and turned the street Böttcherstraße in Bremen into an artwork. He was aso a supporter of the 'Brücke Association' and started the publication of the famous heraldic Coffee Hag albums in the described formats of the Brücke. During the Third Reich, Roselius supported Adolf Hitler, … - Riccardo Illy
Riccardo Illy (born 24 September 1955) is an Italian businessman and politician. - Gareth Hunt
Alan Leonard Hunt (7 February 1942 - 14 March 2007) was an English actor, known as Gareth Hunt, best remembered for playing the footman Frederick Norton in "Upstairs, Downstairs" and Mike Gambit in "The New Avengers". - Coleman Francis
Coleman C. Francis (January 24, 1919-January 15, 1973) was an American film director. He has become known in recent years for the abysmal production quality of his three self-produced 1960s films. His trademark style includes murky black & white scenes with poor acting, usually in desert locations, a preoccupation with light aircraft and parachuting, and coffee serving as a prop or a center of conversation. - Alan Adler
Alan Adler is an American inventor. He specializes in flying toys, such as footballs with fins and flying rings and discs, such as the Aerobie. In 2005 he invented a coffee brewing device and method called the Aeropress. - Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Jean-Baptiste Colbert served as the French minister of finance from 1665 to 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV. He was described by Mme de Sévigné as « Le Nord » as he was cold and unemotional. His relentless hard work and thriftiness made him an esteemed minister. He achieved a reputation for his work of improving the state of French manufacturing and bringing the economy back from the brink of bankruptcy. - Paavo Airola
Dr. Paavo O. Airola, N.D., Ph.D. (1918, Finland-1983) was a nutritionist, naturopathic physician, educator and author. He began his career as an artist. After World War II he emigrated to Canada, where he lived near Cobourg, Ontario, and was first instructor of the Cobourg Art Club. He then moved to the USA, settling in Arizona. He promoted a diet that contained no salt, sugar, coffee, meat, distilled water or refined carbohydrates. - Ty England
Ty England, born December 5 1963, is a country music singer and guitarist from Oklahoma. England began playing guitar during his youth, and country stars such as Roy Acuff and Hank Williams. He sang with various bands in high school, and performed in his school chorus. While working at a coffee shop during his time as a student at Oklahoma State University, fellow student Garth Brooks met him and soon the two were roommates. - Eric Shipton
Eric Shipton (1 August 1907 - 28 March 1977) was an English Himalayan mountaineering legend. Born in Ceylon and educated in England, Shipton began climbing in the Alps. In 1928 he went to Kenya as a coffee grower, and first climbed Nelion, a peak of Mount Kenya in 1929. It was also in Kenya's community of Europeans that he met his future climbing partners Bill Tilman and Percy Wyn-Harris. Together with Wyn-Harris he climbed the twin peaks of Mount Kenya. - Kim McDonald
Kim McDonald is a CMOS certified The Weather Network morning host. Prior to 1998, she worked in St. Catherines, Ontario as a co-host for the radio program "the morning show". She currently lives in Hamilton, Ontario, and is married and has two daughters. She is a "morning person" and enjoys coffee. She dislikes being referred to as a veteran. - Ehrinn Cummings
Ehrinn Lynn Cummings (born March 14, 1981 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a model. Cummings was seventeen when she was discovered at a coffee shop. She did a shampoo advertisement that launched her into the fashion world. She moved from Canada to New York in 1999 to work on her modeling career. Journalists have compared her to supermodel Elle MacPherson because of their similar look. - Peter Schlumbohm
Peter Schlumbohm was a German inventor, best known for creating the Chemex coffeemaker. The notable design author Ralph Caplan wrote a eulogy for the inventor Peter Schlumbohm shortly after the latter’s death in 1962, in which he described the typical Schlumbohm invention as “a synthesis of logic and madness”. Caplan, like hundreds of thousands of Americans, was particularly fond of Schlumbohm’s Chemex Coffeemaker, … - Nicholas Lawes
Sir Nicholas Lawes was Governor of Jamaica from 1718 to 1722. In his capacity as Governor he tried 'Calico' Jack Rackham the pirate in 1720. In 1730 he introduced coffee to Jamaica. - Óscar Berger
Óscar José Rafael Berger Perdomo, born on 11 August 1946 in Guatemala City, is the current President of Guatemala. His family was a part of the upper class with large sugar and coffee holdings. He graduated in law from the private, Jesuit Rafael Landívar University. In 1967 he married Wendy Widmann, also from a land owning Guatemalan family. From the mid seventies he ran a successful skittles parlor. - Maximiliano Hernández Martínez
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez was the President of El Salvador from 1931 to 1944. Serving as President Arturo Araujo's Minister of Defense, he seized power during a palace coup, capitalizing on political unrest brought on by the collapse of coffee prices. An admirer of fascism, Hernández Martínez led a military government that actively suppressed opposition, most notably the Salvadoran peasant revolt of 1932 led by Farabundo Martí, … - Leonhard Rauwolf
Leonhard Rauwolf (also spelled Rauwolff) (Augsburg, June 21 in either 1535 or 1540 - September 15, 1596, Waitzen, Hungary) was a German physician, botanist and traveller. He was a pupil of Guillaume Rondelet in 1560. In 1565 he set up a medical practice in Augsburg. In that year he married Regina Jung, daughter of the patrician, Doctor Ambrosius Jung, the Younger. He described several unknown plants in Occident. - Dieter Meier
Dieter Meier is a Swiss musician and conceptual artist who is probably best known for the electronic music group Yello he formed with music producer Boris Blank. He is a vocalist and lyricist, as well as manager and producer of this music group. - Friedrich Ferdinand Runge
Friedrich (or Friedlieb/Friedlob) Ferdinand Runge (born near Hamburg on 8 February 1795, died in Oranienburg on 25 March 1867) was an analytical chemist. Runge conducted chemical experiments from a young age, serendipitously identifying the mydriatic effects of belladonna (deadly nightshade) extract. In 1819, he demonstrated his finding to Goethe, who encouraged him to analyse coffee. A few months later, Runge identified caffeine. - James Emerson Tennent
Sir James Emerson Tennent, 1st Baronet (7 April 1804-6 March 1869), born James Emerson, was an English politician and traveller. The third son of William Emerson, a merchant of Belfast, he was born there in 1804. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, of which he afterwards became LL.D. He took up the cause of Greek independence, and travelled in Greece, publishing a "Picture of Greece" (1826), "Letters from the Aegean" (1829), … - J. A. Folger
James Athearn ("J.A.") Folger (June 17 1835 - June 26 1889), was the founder of the Folgers Coffee Company. Folger was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts. In 1860 he founded the San Francisco coffee firm after leaving Nantucket in the hope of striking it rich in the California gold fields. Instead he struck it big with the J. A. Folger Coffee Company, known today simply as Folgers Coffee. - Hira Ratan Manek
Hira Ratan Manek (born September 12, 1937) claims that since June 18th, 1995, he has lived exclusively on water, and occasional tea, coffee, and buttermilk. He says sunlight is the key to his health, citing the Jainist Tirthankara Mahavira, ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Native Americans as his inspiration. According to his website, three extended periods of his fasting have been under observed control of scientific and medical teams. - John Cassell
John Cassell (23 January, 1817 - 2 April, 1865) was a British publisher and businessperson who published magazines aimed at the middle class. He also served as an editor of many of the magazines he published. Originally a tea and coffee merchant, from around 1850 his firm started printing illustrated magazines, with the objective of providing good literature to those who might not read it otherwise. Self-educated, Cassell was born in Manchester and died in London. - Joseph Booth
Joseph Booth was an English Baptist missionary in British Central Africa (present-day Malawi). He first came to Africa in 1892 along with his wife and daughters, and established the Zambezi Industrial Mission at Mitsidi, close to Blantyre and the Nyasa Industrial Mission. He recruited locals to plant coffee, and within a year had over 30,000 acres (120 km²) being worked. This was part of his desire to have Africa be for the native Africans instead of Europeans, … - Franciszek Jerzy Kulczycki
Franciszek Jerzy Kulczycki 1640-1694 of Sas Coat of Arms (his name often rendered in German as "Kolschitzky") was a member of Polish szlachta of Ukrainian origin and of orthodox faith, merchant, spy, diplomat and soldier. According to a popular legend, he opened the first café in Vienna in 1683, using coffee beans left by the retreating Ottoman Turks.
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