- Shirley & Company
Shirley & Company was an American disco group, consisting of Shirley Goodman (born Shirley Pixley Goodman, on 19 June, 1936, in New Orleans), Jesus Alvarez, Walter Morris, Bernadette Randle, Seldon Powell, Jonathan Williams and Clarence Oliver. - Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheim (b. March 22 1930) is widely seen as his generation's leading writer of the stage musical. Described by Frank Rich in the "The New York Times" as "the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater," he is one of the few people to win an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards (seven, more than any other composer), multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize. - Paul Miller
Paul Miller (born 1962) is an American theatrical lighting designer. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Miller studied music and piano performance before attending the Theatre School (formerly known as the Goodman School of Drama) at DePaul University to study lighting design in 1982. He began his career in 1990 lighting for regional theatres and off-Broadway productions, including "Waiting for Godot" and Dan Goggin's "Nunsense II" and "Balancing Act". - Frank Gehry
Born in 1930, he studied architecture at the University of Southern California and studied City Planning at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. He developed projects of private and public city planning in America, Japan. In Europe, he has recently been awarded the Pritsker Architecture Prize in 1989 and the Wolf Prize in Art in 1992. His projects have been published all over the world. - Helmut Lang
Helmut Lang (born on March 10 1956 in Vienna), is an Austrian fashion designer, known for his minimalist, deconstructivist, and often severe designs. The fashion label he created bears his name. Originally from Vienna where he set up his own fashion boutique in 1979, Lang branched out to Paris in the early 1980s to be closer to the international fashion scene. He became famous for his simple but refined designs, his slim suits in black or white, … - Spike
Spike is a Japanese video game developer and publisher. Games it has developed include: "Crimson Tears", "Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi", "Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 2", "Fire Pro Wrestling", "Michigan", "Elvandia Story", & "Necro-Nesia" - Ram Gopal Varma
Ram Gopal Varma is an Indian film director, writer and film producer from Andhra Pradesh. He is popular for his slick, grisly films and his penchant for horror and gangster films. Along with tamil director Mani Ratnam, he is rated as the best director in India. He owns a production house which churns out a large number of small budget Indie films every year, with great success. He has a cult like fan following in India and abroad. - Matthew Smith
Matthew Smith (born 1966) is a British computer game programmer. He is best known for his games "Manic Miner" and "Jet Set Willy" for the ZX Spectrum, released in 1983 and 1984 respectively. He was born in London, but his family moved around a great deal, finally ending up in Wallasey. He started out programming on a TRS-80. His first commercial game was a "Galaxian" clone for the TRS-80 called "Delta Tower One". - Jeroen van der Veer
</gallery>;Jeroen van der Veer (born October 27, 1947 in Utrecht, Netherlands) is the CEO of oil company Royal Dutch Shell. Van der Veer joined Shell in 1971 where he worked in manufacturing and marketing in the Netherlands, Curaçao and the United Kingdom. Van der Veer graduated in 1971 from Delft University with a MSc in mechanical engineering and went on to earn a MSc in economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam. - Michael Bennett
Michael Bennett (April 8, 1943 - July 2, 1987) was a Tony Award-winning American musical theater director, writer, choreographer, and dancer. Born Michael Bennett DiFiglia to a Roman Catholic father and a Jewish mother in Buffalo, New York, he studied dance and choreography in his teens and staged a number of shows in his local high school before dropping out to accept the role of Baby John in the US and European tours of "West Side Story". - Ajay Devgan
Vishal Devgan, born (April 2, 1969 in Delhi, India), popularly known as Ajay Devgan is an actor working in the Hindi film industry (Bollywood). Beginning as an action hero in the early 1990s, Devgan matured early in his career, as is widely regarded now as one of the finest actors in the industry. - Dean Jones
Dean Jones (born January 25, 1931 in Decatur, Alabama) is an American actor. He served in the US Navy during the Korean War, after which he worked at the Bird Cage Theater at Knott's Berry Farm, California. He was voluntarily replaced (by Larry Kert) in Stephen Sondheim's Broadway musical "Company" after just one month. Jones' performance is preserved on the original cast album. He also appeared in many Disney films in the 1960s and 1970s, including, … - Bernard Ebbers
Bernard John "Bernie" Ebbers (born August 27, 1941 in Edmonton, Alberta), is a Canadian-born businessman. He co-founded the telecommunications company WorldCom and is a former chief executive officer of that company. In 2005, he was convicted of fraud and conspiracy in the largest (to date) accounting scandal in United States history, as a result of WorldCom's false financial reporting, and subsequent $180-billion loss to investors. - Max Barry
Max Barry (also Maxx Barry; born March 18, 1973) is a contemporary Australian author. He says about himself that he "put an extra X in his name for Syrup because he thought it was a funny joke about marketing and failed to realize everyone would assume he was a pretentious asshole." He commands a cult following for his entertaining blog and his "funny and clever" books. - Avi Arad
Avi Arad is an Israeli-American businessman. He became the CEO of the company Toy Biz in the 1990s. Arad is credited as executive producer for all of animated cartoons with Marvel characters created in the 1990s, starting with 1992's "X-Men" for Fox Kids. Arad was the Executive Producer of "Blade: The Series". - Robert Alexander
Robert Alexander (October 17 1863- August 20 1941) was a soldier in the United States Army, originally from Baltimore, Maryland. As Major General he commanded the U.S. Army's 77th Infantry Division in France during World War I. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery in northern Virginia. He joined the Army after rejecting a career in law, and became a Private in 1886 in the 4th Infantry Division. In 1887, he became the First Sergeant of his Company, … - Calum Best
Calum Milan Best is a British former fashion model turned celebrity, and television personality. He is best known for being the son of Northern Ireland football legend George Best from his father's marriage to Angela MacDonald-James. His personal life is frequently featured in tabloid newspapers and celebrity based magazines in the UK. He has the middle name Milan, after his godfather, Milan Mandarić, his father's lifelong friend, … - Jim Henderson
As of 2006, Jim Henderson is the Registrar of Companies for Scotland, based at the Companies House office in Edinburgh. He is involved with the registration of companies and their documents, and also the dissolution of companies. - Thomas Baker
Thomas A. Baker (June 25, 1916 - July 7, 1944) was a Sergeant in the U.S. Army during World War II. He served with Alpha Company, 105th Infantry Regiment, 27th Infantry division in the Philippines. He received a Medal of Honor posthumously for his actions in combat on the island of Saipan. - Sam Baker
Sam Baker was until December 2006 the editor in chief of "Cosmopolitan" in the UK. She is now editor of "Red", owned by Hachette, and a sister magazine to "Elle". Baker was born in Hampshire, and studied politics at Birmingham University. She went on to work as a writer and editor for numerous British women's magazines, including "Red", "New Woman", "Chat", and "Take a Break". - Kage Baker
Kage Baker (born June 10, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. She was born in Hollywood, California and has lived there and in Pismo Beach most of her life. Before becoming a professional writer she spent many years in theater, including teaching Elizabethan English as a second language. She is best known for her "Company" series of historical time travel science fiction. Her first stories were published in "Asimov's Science Fiction" in 1997, … - Michael Marks
Michael Marks, was one of the two co-founders of the retail chain Marks and Spencer. Marks, who was born in Slonim, Belarus (then part of Russian Empire and Poland) as Michał Marks of Polish and Jewish ancestry, emigrated to England as a young man. He moved to Leeds where a company called Barran was known to employ Jewish refugees. Marks met Isaac Dewhurst, the owner of a Leeds warehouse, in 1884. - Serge Tchuruk
Serge Tchuruk is a French businessman of Armenian descent. He was the Chief Executive Officer and chairman of Alcatel (a global telecommunications company) till the end of November 2006 and is now the chairman of Alcatel-Lucent. - Julie Wilson
Julie Wilson (born October 21, 1924) is an American singer and actress. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Wilson headed to New York City during World War II and found work in two of Manhattan's leading nightclubs, the Latin Quarter and the Copacabana. She made her Broadway debut in the 1946 revue "Three to Make Ready". In 1951, she moved to London to star in the West End production of "Kiss Me, Kate" and remained there for four years, … - Hal Prince
Hal Prince (born January 30 1928) is an American theatrical producer and director associated with many of the best-known Broadway musical productions of the past half-century. He has earned more Tony Awards (21) than any other individual, including eight for directing, eight for producing, two as producer of the year's Best Musical, and three special awards. His shows are known for their political context, new approach to romance, … - George Furth
George Furth (born December 14, 1932) is a Tony Award-winning American librettist, playwright, and actor. Born George Schweinfurth in Chicago, Illinois, Furth majored in Drama & Theatre at Northwestern University and received his Master's degree from Columbia. He made his Broadway debut as an actor in the 1961 play "A Cook for Mr. General", followed by the musical "Hot Spot" two years later, … - Raúl Esparza
Raúl Esparza is an Cuban-American stage actor. Born in Wilmington, Delaware and raised in Miami, Florida, Esparza graduated from Belen Jesuit in 1988 and later received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He first drew attention with his performance in the 2000 Broadway revival of "The Rocky Horror Show", which won him the Theatre World Award. The following year he appeared off-Broadway in "tick, … - Jason Dunham
Jason Dunham was a Corporal in the United States Marine Corps who served with 4th Platoon, Company K, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment (3/7), I Marine Expeditionary Force, 1st Marine Division, during Operation Iraqi Freedom. On November 10, 2006, at the dedication of the National Museum of the Marine Corps, President George W. Bush announced that Dunham would be awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on April 14, 2004 near Husaybah, Iraq. - Scott Friedman
Scott Friedman is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Seegrid Corporation. He consulted for BioTransplant and founded the medical software company CareFlow|Net. He attended The University of Michigan, Honors College and West Virginia University School of Medicine. - Oliviero Toscani
Oliviero Toscani (b. 1942) is an Italian photographer, best-known worldwide for designing controversial advertising campaigns for Italian brand Benetton, from 1982 to 2000. Most of these advertising campaigns were actually institutionals for the brand, always composed of rather controversial photography, usually with only the company logo "United Colors of Benetton" as caption. One of his most famous campaigns include that of a man dying of AIDS, lying in a hospital bed, … - Alice Ripley
Alice Ripley is an American actress and singer. Born one of eleven children in San Leandro, California, Ripley received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Kent State University. She made her Broadway debut in "The Who's Tommy" in 1993. Additional Broadway credits include "Sunset Boulevard", "King David", "James Joyce's The Dead", "The Rocky Horror Show", "Les Misérables", and a benefit concert performance of "Dreamgirls". - Hans Moravec
Hans Moravec (born November 30 1948 in Austria) is a research professor at the Robotics Institute (Carnegie Mellon) of Carnegie Mellon University. He is known for his work on robotics, artificial intelligence, and writings on the impact of technology. Moravec also is a futurist with many of his publications and predictions focusing on transhumanism. Moravec developed techniques in machine vision for determining the region of interest (ROI) in a scene. - Barbara Barrie
Barbara Barrie (born Barbara Ann Berman on May 23, 1931 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress and author of children's books. Barrie has had a lengthy career in film and television. She is probably best known for her roles as Hal Linden's character's wife on "Barney Miller", and on "Suddenly Susan", in which she played Susan's (Brooke Shields) grandmother. Most recently, she had a recurring role in the series "Dead Like Me". - Priscilla Lopez
Priscilla Lopez is an American singer, dancer, and actress. Born on February 26, 1948 in the Bronx, Lopez has the distinction of having appeared in two Broadway landmarks - one of its greatest hits, the highly-acclaimed, long-running "A Chorus Line", and one of its biggest flops, the infamous musical version of "Breakfast at Tiffany's", which closed before opening night. Lopez graduated from Manhattan's School of Performing Arts (PA), … - Mike Duke
Michael T. Duke is a management executive in the U.S.A.. He is currently serving as the "Executive Vice President", "President", and "Chief Executive Officer" of Wal-Mart Stores Division USA. (Wal-Mart is the world's largest retailer, and the largest company in the world based on revenue.) He has been with Wal-Mart since 1995, serving formerly as Executive Vice President of Administration, Executive Vice President of Logistics, … - Prem Chand Gupta
Prem Chand Gupta (born February 3, 1950) is the Minister of State for Company Affairs of India. He is a member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal and is an elected Member of Parliament representing the state of Bihar in the Rajya Sabha. - George Coe
George Coe is an American actor who has appeared in many films, television shows and on the stage. He was a part of the original cast of "Saturday Night Live", but he was only kept in that role for the first three shows (October 11, 18, and 25 of 1975), often as an announcer in fake commercials. Coe was used in several other episodes of SNL, but was never credited. In 1970 he originated the role of David in the original broadway cast of Stephen Sondheim's Company. - Sophie Thompson
Sophie Thompson (b. 1962) is an award-winning British actress who currently plays Stella Crawford in "EastEnders". - Charles Kimbrough
Charles Kimbrough (born May 23, 1936) is an American character actor best known for playing the straight-faced anchor Jim Dial on "Murphy Brown." In 1990, the role earned him a nomination for an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series". Born in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, Kimbrough has extensive stage experience. In 1971, he was nominated for a Tony for best featured actor in a musical for Stephen Sondheim's "Company". - Ron Rose
Ron Rose (born September 4) is an American poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada. Prior to getting involved in the poker tournament circuit, Rose was a mathematician and project engineer in the Air Force. Later he became an entrepreneur who started and sold two computer companies and an internet company. He also held a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and owned his own commodities firm.
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