- Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24 1955) is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. He is currently the largest Disney shareholder and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries. Jobs' history in business has contributed greatly to the mythos of the quirky, individualistic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, … - John Madden
John Earl Madden (born April 10, 1936) is a former National Football League player, head coach, and a Pro Football Hall-of-Famer. Madden is perhaps best known for his nearly three-decade career as a color commentator for various broadcasting networks. He was part of the iconic CBS and later Fox broadcasting duo, along with Pat Summerall in the 1980s and 1990s. He was also the last color commentator for Monday Night Football before it moved to ESPN in 2006. - John Madden
John Earl Madden is a former American National Football League player, head coach, and a Pro Football Hall-of-Famer. Madden is perhaps best known for his nearly three-decade career as a color commentator for various broadcasting networks. He was part of the iconic CBS and later Fox broadcasting duo, along with Pat Summerall in the 1980s and 1990s. He was also the last color commentator for Monday Night Football before it moved to ESPN in 2006. - Wes Anderson
Wesley Wales Anderson (born May 1, 1969) is an American writer, producer, and director of films and commercials. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. - Michel Gondry
Michel Gondry, born May 8, 1963 (1964 according to some sources), is a French Academy Award winning screenwriter, film, commercial, and music video director noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scène. - Thomas Kinkade
Thomas Kinkade (born January 19, 1958 in Sacramento, California) is an American painter whose work has been printed in mass production. He is marketed as "Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light," a trademark owned by Media Arts Group, Inc. (a public company in which Kinkade is a primary investor). The phrase "painter of light" has also been associated with 19th century artist J. M. W. Turner. Kinkade is, according to his website, America's most-collected living artist. - Overseer
Rob Overseer (who publishes his music under just his last name) is a English DJ/producer, born in Leeds whose works have been included in soundtracks for "Animatrix", "Snatch" and "Any Given Sunday", as well as video games like "Need for Speed: Underground" and "Stuntman", among others. - Stanley Ho
Stanley Ho, GBS (born November 25, 1921), also known as Ho Hung-sun, Stanley Ho Hung-sun, is an entrepreneur in Hong Kong and Macau. Ho is sometimes nicknamed "The King of Gambling", reflecting the government-granted monopoly he held of the Macau gambling industry for over 35 years. Ho is the wealthiest person in Macau, and one of the wealthiest in Asia. - Ali Landry
Ali Germaine Landry (born July 21, 1973) is a former Miss USA (1996), model and actress. She is recognized as the Doritos Girl from her popular 1998 Super Bowl commercial. In 1998, she was named by "People" magazine as one of 50 most beautiful people in the world. - Myleene Klass
Myleene Angela Klass (born 6 April 1978) is an English classical pianist, commercial model, television and radio presenter, and former member of the UK pop group Hear'Say. Her pop success achieved 4 Top 10 singles, 2 of which were UK Number Ones. Hear'Say also released 2 albums, "Popstars" and "Everybody". - Lil Rob
Roberto Flores (born September 1975), better known as Lil Rob, is a Mexican American (Chicano) rap artist from San Diego, California, USA. He was born and raised in the La Colonia area of Eden Gardens, a Hispanic neighborhood near Solana Beach. Lil Rob debuted as an artist in 1992. Prior to the release of his album Twelve Eighteen Part 1, he regularly moved as many as 100,000 units for each independent CD he recorded. - Moose
Moose is the pseudonym of Paul Curtis, a British graffiti artist. Instead of the typical methods of graffiti, Moose works by cleaning dirt and grime off of surfaces to create his art. He is a commercial artist, and has been paid to create works for products such as Xbox and Smirnoff. - Andrew Bennett
Andrew Bennett is a music video and commercial director living in Santa Monica, California. He has worked with a number of artists including Deftones, Van Halen, and Elisa. Bennett began his career at 21, directing a documentary on the Deftones' 2000 White Pony Tour, prior to that working as an assistant to feature film directors and producers Mike Tollin and Brian Robbins. Bennett is currently represented by Justin Cronkite and Ish Muniz at Highway 114 Pictures. - Konrad Zuse
Konrad Zuse was a German engineer and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the completion of the first functional program-controlled computer, the Z3, in 1941 (the program was stored on a tape). In 1998 the Z3 was proven to be Turing-complete. Zuse also designed the first high-level programming language, the Plankalkül, first published in 1948, although this was a theoretical contribution, … - Jesse White
Jesse White, born Jesse Weidenfeld (January 4, 1917 - January 9, 1997), was an American character actor who played many roles in television, film and on stage. He was also recognizable from television commercials as the Maytag repairman, a role he played from 1967 to 1988. White's typical character was a kind of hotheaded, fast-talking, cut-to-the-chase kind of guy. - Emily Scott
Emily Scott (born 1983, Canberra, ACT) is an Australian commercial, lingerie and glamour model. A graduate of the University of Queensland Scott holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in design. Scott is most recognisable from her appearances in the visuals of Robbie Williams' spring 2006 tour, she appeared in a specially filmed remake of the notorious Rock DJ video clip, and was, for a period, the face of Lipton Ice Tea. - Jennifer O'Neill
Jennifer O'Neill (born February 20, 1948) is an American actress and author. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the daughter of a Spanish-Irish businessman and his English wife. As a teenager, O'Neill worked as a fashion model and appeared in television commercials and on magazine covers. In 1968 she landed a small role in "For the Love of Ivy". In 1970 she played one of the lead female roles in "Rio Lobo" starring John Wayne. - Neal Adams
Neal Adams (born June 6, 1941, Governors Island, Manhattan, New York City) is an American comic book and commercial artist best known for his highly naturalistic style of illustration. He has helped create some of the definitive modern imagery of the DC Comics characters Batman, Green Arrow, and others. Adams has named artists Joe Kubert, Russ Heath, and Mort Drucker as his influences. Other influences include Jack Kirby, Stan Drake, and Jim Steranko - Anita Bryant
Anita Jane Bryant (born March 25, 1940, in Barnsdall, Oklahoma) is an American singer who made a series of television commercials for Florida orange juice. A member of the Southern Baptist Convention, she is best remembered today for campaigning in the mid-1970s to repeal a local ordinance in Miami, Florida, that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. - Toni Gonzaga
Celestine Cruz Gonzaga, popularly known by her screen name Toni Gonzaga, is a Filipina movie and TV actress, variety program host, singer, and commercial model. She is one of the most visible multimedia artists in Philippine showbiz. - Jason Dolley
Jason Scott Dolley (born July 5, 1991 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor. At the age of eleven, he got the lead role in the award winning short film entitled "Chasing Daylight", where he plays a boy, who is attempting to cope with the loss of his best friend. He currently plays the role of rock-n-roll fanatic Newt Livingston on the Disney Channel series "Cory in the House". - Brandon Smith
Brandon Mychal Smith (known as Lil' Danny Dawkins on "Phil of the Future") is an African-American actor. Smith started acting at the tender age of 8 years old. Soon, he booked his first national commercial for Nike with Tiger Woods. At that point he knew what he wanted to do in life - act - and has been ever since. Throughout his career, Brandon has landed comedic and dramatic roles. Smith once worked with Tiger Woods in a Nike commercial. - Billy Davis
Roquel Billy Davis (July 11 1932 - September 2 2004) of Detroit was an American songwriter, record producer, and singer. Davis is best known as a songwriter for a number of soul musicians label, and as a writer/producer of commercial jingles, mostly for Coca-Cola. Early in his career, Davis worked with an early version of The Four Tops called "The Four Aims", which included his cousin Lawrence Payton. - Luciana Souza
Luciana Souza is a Brazilian jazz singer and composer. Daughter of poet Tereza Souza and singer-composer-guitarist Walter Santos, she grew up in São Paulo. She began her career by recording jingles for commercials. She has also worked in the field of European classical music, working with the Bach Akademie in Stuttgart, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, composer Osvaldo Golijov, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, … - Talia Shire
Talia Shire (born April 25, 1946), is an Academy Award-nominated American actress. Her name is in honor of her country of origin (Italia). Born Talia Rose Coppola in Lake Success, New York; she is the sister of director and producer Francis Ford Coppola and the niece of composer and conductor Anton Coppola. She was married to composer David Shire, with whom she had a son, Matthew Orlando Shire. - Steven Blum
Steven Jay Blum (born April 28, 1965) is an American voice actor known primarily for his work in anime dubs and video games. Fans of Cartoon Network's Toonami can recognize Blum's voice as the TOM, the block's robotic host. He was also recently heard in a Geico commercial and was the voice of 7-Eleven's "Oh thank heaven" television and radio advertisements. He is not to be confused with another Steven Blum who is primarily involved in crew work, … - Tommy Tucker
Tommy Tucker (born Robert Higginbotham, 5 March 1933 - 22 January 1982) was an American blues singer and pianist. He was born in Springfield, Ohio. He is best known for the 1964 hit song, "High Heel Sneakers", that went to number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. - Anne Dudley
Anne Dudley (born) is an English orchestral composer and pop musician, and was the BBC Concert Orchestra's composer in Association between January 2002 and January 2005. She has worked in both the classical and pop genres. She is perhaps best known, however, as one of the seminal members of the synthpop band, Art of Noise. - Chuck McCann
Chuck McCann (b. September 2, 1934 in Brooklyn, New York) is a movie, TV, stage, and voice actor. - Robin Beck
Robin Beck (born on 7 November, 1954, in Brooklyn, New York) is an American female singer. She topped the singles charts in the UK in 1988, and Germany in 1989 with her single "The First Time", which had come to the public's attention via its use in a Coca-Cola commercial. The Coca-Cola Co. - James Heath
James Heath is a British film, commercial and music video director. In 2003 he formed Burning Vision Entertainment with fellow director Gratian Dimech. Their debut video was for the band Tommi and was the first UK music video to be shot on the Sony High Definition cameras used by George Lucas on the recent Star Wars films. Since then they have produced music videos for many well known artists including Destiny’s Child, Beyoncé Knowles, Sheila Ferguson and Chicane. - Samuel Bayer
Samuel Bayer is an American music video director. His most famous works to date are the ones with the bands Nirvana and Green Day. With Nirvana he directed the video for the legendary Smells Like Teen Spirit, and he directed all the videos from Green Day's 2004 album American Idiot. A graduate of New York City’s School of Visual Arts in 1987 with a degree in Fine Arts, … - Sanford I. Weill
Sanford I. Weill, commonly known as Sandy Weill (born March 16 1933) is a banker, financier and philanthropist. He was formerly the chief executive officer and chairman of Citigroup Inc. He served in those positions until October 1 2003 and April 18, 2006 respectively. - Nick Kamen
Nick Kamen (born Nicholas Ivor Kamen, 15 April 1962, in Harlow, Essex, England) is a British male model, songwriter and musician. He is most famous for his 1985 beefcake performance in Levi's "Launderette" TV commercial where he strips down in order to stone-wash his blue jeans in a 1950s style public laundromat while he waits clad only in his boxer shorts, which dramatically increased their popularity. It was selected for "The 100 Greatest TV Ads" in 2000. - Ruby Lin
Ruby Lin (born 27 January 1976 in Taipei, Taiwan) is a Chinese TV drama and film actress and singer from Taiwan. Her English name was chosen by herself, after her mother's love of the jewel. At first, Ruby Lin made her debut by TV commercial in Taiwan. In 1996, After several supporting roles in Taiwanese TV drama, Ruby Lin was one of the lead actresses in the popular television series "Princess Returning Pearl" and its sequel, "Princess Returning Pearl" II, … - Peter Hermann
Peter Hermann (born 15 August 1967 in Germany) is an American actor and writer. A German native who moved to Greenwich, Connecticut at the age of 10, Hermann attended Brunswick School in Greenwich through secondary school, where he was active in student drama productions. He then went on to Yale University, graduating in 1990. - Suranne Jones
Suranne Jones is an English actress best known for playing the role of Karen McDonald (née Phillips) in ITV1's "Coronation Street" over a period of four years. She is also recognisable from an appearance in a high-profile commercial for Maltesers which was filmed shortly before she joined the programme, but frequently screened throughout her early career on the iconic soap opera. - Bridget Maasland
Bridget Maasland (Den Haag, 9 November 1974) is a Dutch VJ and television presenter and producer. At a young age, Maasland already lived a glamorous life. She worked as a model and appeared on the catwalk in fashionshows for children. Her debut on television was a commercial for fruit as a healthy alternative to candy. Later, Maasland became a professional model, working in Barcelona. - Carson Williams
Carson Williams from Mason, Ohio, is noted for his homemade light shows using Christmas lights fixed around and on top of his house. The lights are programmed to turn on and off in synchronism with music using a computer application and set of modules known as Light-O-Rama. For each minute of animation synchronized to music, he spent approximately one hour to sequence 88 Light-O-Rama channels to control his 16,000 Christmas lights. - Norika Fujiwara
Norika Fujiwara is a Japanese beauty queen, model and actress. She became Miss Japan in 1992 and was an exclusive model for CanCam magazine. She has appeared in various commercials and TV series and a number of films in Japan.
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