- John Kerry Vvaw Controversy
- John Kerry Military Service Controversy
The John Kerry military service controversy describes a political issue that gained widespread public attention during John Kerry's candidacy in the 2004 U.S. presidential campaign.
- Howard Stern
Howard Allan Stern (born January 12, 1954) is an American radio and TV personality, media mogul, humorist, actor, and author. Stern hosts "The Howard Stern Show" four days a week (Monday-Thursday) on Howard 100, a Sirius Satellite Radio station. The self-proclaimed "King of All Media" (a humorous reference to Michael Jackson's appellation "The King of Pop") has been dubbed a shock jock for his highly controversial use of scatological, sexual and racial humor.
- Vanessa Hudgens
Vanessa Anne Hudgens (born December 14 1988 in Salinas, California) is an American actress and singer. She made her screen debut in 2003 and appeared in the Hollywood films "Thirteen" and "Thunderbirds", before coming to fame in the 2006 hit Disney Channel film, "High School Musical". Hudgens also began a music career and released her debut album, entitled "V", in 2006. In 2007, Hudgens is the new spokesperson for Neutrogena.
- David Irving
David John Cawdell Irving is a British writer specializing in the military history of World War II. He is the author of 30 books, including "The Destruction of Dresden" (1963), "Hitler's War" (1977), "Uprising!" (1981), "Churchill's War" (1987), and "Goebbels — Mastermind of the Third Reich" (1996).
- Theo van Gogh
Theo van Gogh was the younger brother of the painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) and a successful art dealer. Beginning in 1880, Theo's unfailing financial support allowed his brother to devote himself entirely to painting. Theo van Gogh's great-grandson, also named Theo van Gogh, was a film director, famous for his controversial criticism of Islam. He was murdered in 2004, at the age of 47.
- Nikki Finke
In 2007, Finke won the Los Angeles Press Club's Southern California Journalism Award for "Entertainment Journalist of the Year" with the judges commenting: "Reading Nikki Finke 's salaciously candid coverage of Hollywood and its inhabitants almost feels like a guilty pleasure. She mixes the news with fearless finger-wagging that's just fun to read no matter the subject. She tackles the industry monoliths without the kiddy gloves and she seems to have command of the beat."
- Vladimir Kramnik
Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (born June 25, 1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster and the current World Chess Champion. In October 2000, he beat Garry Kasparov in a sixteen game match played in London, and became the Classical World Chess Champion. In late 2004, Kramnik successfully defended his title against challenger Péter Lékó in a drawn fourteen game match played in Brissago, Switzerland. In October 2006, Kramnik, the Classical World Champion, …
- Charles Haughey
Charles James "Charlie" Haughey was the sixth Taoiseach of Ireland. One of the most controversial of Irish politicians in the 20th century, Haughey served four terms as Taoiseach: December 1979 to June 1981, March 1982 to December 1982 and March 1987 to February 1992, when he was forced to resign by revelations from a former minister. He was the fourth leader of Fianna Fáil, from 1979 until 1992. He died of prostate cancer at the age of eighty.
- Philip Agee
Philip Burnett Franklin Agee (born July 19, 1935) is a former CIA employee and author who wrote the controversial book, "Inside the Company: CIA Diary" (1975) He resigned from the CIA in 1968. From the early 1970s, he became the most visible opponent of CIA practices.
- Ralph Bakshi
From RalphBakshi.com: "Ralph Bakshi was born in October 1938 in Haifa, Israel. In 1939 his family came to New York escaping the war. He grew up in Brooklyn and went to the High School of... ... You may not know him, but Ralph Bakshi is perhaps well-known for starting the trend that we now called Adult Animation. Born in Israel but raise in New York, Ralph works his way up in the animation industry, working in Terrytoons...
- James Forrestal
James Vincent Forrestal (February 15, 1892 - May 22, 1949) was a Secretary of the Navy and the first United States Secretary of Defense. Forrestal's death resulted from a fall out of a Bethesda Naval Hospital window which has led to speculation and much controversy. He was a supporter of naval battle groups centered on aircraft carriers. In 1954, the Navy's first supercarrier was named the USS "Forrestal" in his honor.
- Bernard Manning
Bernard John Manning (13 August 1930 - 18 June 2007) was an English stand-up comedian. He was born and brought up in Manchester in north-west England. Manning courted controversy because his act often contained material involving ethnic stereotypes and minority groups. This type of material was commonplace among British stand-up comedians in the 1970s, but was largely excluded from television in the 1980s. Manning continued to perform in theatres and pubs until his death.
- Robert Henderson
Robert Henderson (b. 1947) is a British writer who has caused public controversy with his views on racial issues and his letters to the British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Henderson spent his early childhood in Cheshire before moving to Hertfordshire, where he was educated at St Albans School, later graduating from Keele University. Since then he has lived in Central London. Before retiring due to ill health he worked for the Inland Revenue, …
- Devin Moore
Devin Moore (born 1985) is a criminal from Alabama who sparked a large controversy over the video game "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City" when he committed three acts of first-degree murder against three people in the Fayette, Alabama police station in 2003. Moore killed two policemen (Arnold Strickland and James Crump) and a dispatcher (Leslie Mealer) after being booked on suspicion of stealing a car. He then fled in a patrol car.
- Marvin Zindler
Marvin Harold Zindler (born August 10, 1921 in Houston, Texas) is a news reporter for KTRK ABC-13 in Houston, Texas, USA. His hard-hitting investigative journalism, through which he has mostly represented the city's elderly and working class, has made him one of the city's most influential and well-known media personalities.
- Steven Schwartz
Steven Schwartz (born 1946) became the Vice Chancellor of Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia on February 10 2006. He was previously Vice Chancellor of Brunel University in the UK and of Murdoch University in Western Australia. Schwartz is a trained psychologist and a university corporate manager by experience. He has publicly stated that he wishes universities to be more market-oriented, research-focused, accountable, transparent and held to higher standards, …
- Philip Berg
Philip S. Berg (original name Feivel Gruberger) is the rabbi and current Dean of the worldwide Kabbalah Centre organization, as well as its main figurehead. He is known for his position that the Kabbalah should no longer be taught exclusively to a selected few Jewish scholars, but should instead become a shared wealth of practical wisdom available to all of humankind, and was the first translator of the complete Zohar into the English language.
- Justin Bonomo
Justin Bonomo (born September 30, 1985) (known online as ZeeJustin) is a controversial professional poker player from Los Angeles. He is best known for being caught and publicly outed after cheating in major online poker tournaments by entering himself multiple times via software glitch. Controversy around him grew further when he made several attempts at public apology. Bonomo placed 30th in the 2005 Pokerstars Caribbean Poker Adventure in January, 2005.
- Thomas Stuttaford
Dr Irving Thomas Stuttaford OBE, (born 4 May 1931) is a British doctor, author, medical columnist of "The Times" and former Conservative Member of Parliament. He retired in 2002 as Senior Medical Advisor for Barclays Bank. From 1970 to 1974 Stuttaford was the MP for Norwich South. In two subsequent elections he was a candidate in the Isle of Ely but lost to Clement Freud. His views on the effects of alcohol on health, specifically red wine, are controversial, …
- David Wolpe
Rabbi David J. Wolpe (b. 1958 -) is an author, public speaker and rabbi in Los Angeles, California. He is considered a rising young leader of the Conservative Jewish movement. Wolpe was named "one of the fifty most influential Jews in America" by Jewish Daily Forward and one of the hundred most influential people in Los Angeles by Los Angeles magazine. Author of six books and a regular weekly column in the New York Jewish Week, …
- Michelle Dawson
Michelle Dawson (born 1961) is an autistic individual who is an autism researcher and autism rights activist best known for writing a paper challenging the ethical and scientific foundations of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA)-based autism interventions and challenging ABA in the Supreme Court of Canada. Dawson's work has generated considerable controversy.
- Oleg Taktarov
Oleg Taktarov (June 25, 1968) is a Russian martial artist. He is a practitioner of Sambo and Judo and has competed in mixed martial arts in the UFC and PRIDE. Taktarov last fought a professional MMA match in 1998. Taktarov's MMA record from 1995 to 1998 was 11-5-2. He never tapped or was submitted in a MMA match. Taktarov is remembered for being calm during fights and for using a variety of rarely seen, acrobatic take-down moves.
- Joseph Finder
Joseph Finder (born 1958 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American writer of several thrillers set in a business environment. His books include "Paranoia", "Company Man", and "Killer Instinct". His novel "High Crimes" became a hit movie starring Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman. Finder's work is informed by his background as a world traveler, Soviet scholar and relentless researcher.
- Mark Kelley
Mark Kelley is a Canadian journalist. He currently serves as a correspondent and substitute anchor for "The National", and was formerly a host of "CBC News: Morning". A graduate of Concordia University in Montreal, the fluently bilingual Kelley began reporting from within Quebec in the 1980's before joining CBC in 1990. From 2002-2004, he was co-host of the investigative journalism show called "CBC News: Disclosure" with Diana Swain.
- Richard Kostelanetz
Richard Cory Kostelanetz (14 May, 1940, New York City) is a prolific American artist, author and critic. He was born to Boris Kostelanetz and Ethel Cory and is the nephew of the composer Andre Kostelanetz. He has a B.A. from Brown University and an M.A. from Columbia University; he studied as well at King's College London. He is a passionate defender of the avant-garde. He came onto the literary scene with essays in quarterlies like "The Hudson Review", …
- Jessica Darlin
Jessica Darlin (born January 22, 1976 in Wilmington, Delaware) is a former American pornographic actress. Darlin started as an exotic dancer. After meeting a few people from the adult entertainment industry, she moved out west and started doing adult movies in the summer of 1997. Her Wicked Pictures debut was in the Nic Cramer-directed feature "Jealousy" in which she takes part in a male/male/female threesome. She helped found the porn company Extreme Associates.
- Brian Deneke
Brian Deneke (March 9, 1978 - December 12, 1997) was a person who listened to American punk and was from Amarillo, Texas, USA, who became well-known after his untimely murder in 1997, at the age of 19. Brian Deneke was born and raised in Amarillo, TX. While growing up, Brian was a Boy Scout and a Kwahadi Dancer. He attended Crockett Middle School in his early teens.
- Muhammad Al-Durrah
Muhammad Jamal al-Durrah was reported to have been killed by Israeli gunfire on September 30, 2000 near the Netzarim junction in the Gaza Strip at the beginning of the al-Aqsa Intifada. The report was based on video footage provided by a local freelance cameraman, Talal Abu Rahma, who was working alone for "France 2". The footage shows al-Durrah and his father seeking cover from crossfire between the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), …
- Fred Hickman
Fred Hickman is the host of "NBA Shootaround" and a "SportsCenter" anchor for ESPN.
- Al Pedrique
Alfredo José Pedrique García, best know as "Al Pedrique" (pay-DREE-kay), is a former Major League Baseball shortstop and right-handed batter who played for the New York Mets (1987), Pittsburgh Pirates (1987, 88) and Detroit Tigers (1989). Pedrique was signed by the Mets in 1978 and made his debut nine years later. After five games with the team, he hit .301 with the Pirates in his rookie season, …
- Liu Hong
Emperor Houshao of Han, personal name Liu Hong was the fourth emperor of the Han Dynasty in China. He was a son of Emperor Hui, likely by a concubine -- although there is some controversy on the subject -- and adopted by Emperor Hui's wife, Empress Zhang Yan. At the instigation of his grandmother, Empress Dowager Lü, Empress Zhang had Emperor Houshao's mother put to death. Very little about Emperor Houshao's life and personality is known.
- Eusebius Of Vercelli
Saint Eusebius, Bishop of Vercelle (modern Vercelli, Piemonte) (Sardinia ca. 283 - Vercelli, Piemonte, August 1, 371) was a champion of St. Athanasius and Catholic orthodoxy in the 4th century controversy over Arianism. He was a lector in Rome before he went to Vercelle, the present Vercelli, …
- Aki Maeda
Aki Maeda is a Japanese actress and singer. She has an older sister named Ai Maeda. She is perhaps best known in the west for her role as Noriko Nakagawa in the controversial 2000 film "Battle Royale".
- Renée Cox
Renée Cox is an artist and photographer who has caused controversy through her depiction of religious themes and imagery in unorthodox ways. She graduated in 1979 from Syracuse University and received her MFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in 1992.
- Jason Truby
Jason Truby is an American guitarist. He began his career in 1989 when he formed the higly influentual thrash/death metal/metalcore band Living Sacrifice as their lead guitarist. Even though he was a founding member of the Arkansas-based metal band, he left Living Sacrifice in 1997 to spend time with his family. However, in 2003, P.O.D. needed a new guitarist after former band member Marcos Curiel left the band in a bitter controversy.
- Yuko Tojo
Yuko Tojo is a granddaughter of General Hideki Tojo, the wartime prime minister who was hanged as a war criminal after World War II. Tojo is a right-wing activist and political hopeful. In May 2007, Tojo revealed her intention to run in the House of Councillors election, pledging to work to realize the enshrinement of all of Japan's military war dead at the controversial Yasukuni Shrine. Her grandfather is one of the 14 Class-A war criminals honoured at the Shinto shrine.
- Jens Jørgen Thorsen
Jens Jørgen Thorsen was a Danish artist whose artwork sometimes created controversy.
- Sylvester Mazzolini
Sylvester Mazzolini, in Italian Silvestro Mazzolini da Prierio, in Latin Sylvester Prierias. (1456/57-1523) was a theologian born at Priero, Piedmont; he died at Rome. At the age of fifteen, he entered the Dominican Order. Passing brilliantly through a course of studies, he taught theology at Bologna, Pavia (by invitation of the senate of Venice), and in Rome, whither he was called by Julius II in 1511.
- Fikret Abdić
Fikret Abdić is a Bosnian politician and businessman, mainly known for his role in the Bosnian War and his opposition to the government of Alija Izetbegović in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He founded the short-lived Autonomous Province of Western Bosnia, which existed between 1993 and 1995, where he allied with Army of Republika Srpska against Izetbegović's government. In 2002 he was convicted for war crimes his forces had committed in the area of the Bihać pocket.