- Carleton Sheets
Carleton Sheets (name often misspelled as "Carlton") (born August 25, 1939) is head of the Professional Education Institute. The group uses infomercials to sell real estate investing literature, audio, and video to beginners. Sheets claims that beginners (even those with bad credit) can purchase property for "no money down." He has degrees in business, psychology, and speech from Ohio Wesleyan University (1961).
- John Hatch
Dr. John Keith Hatch is an American economic development expert and a pioneer in modern day microfinance. He is the founder of FINCA International and the Rural Development Services (RDS), and is famous for innovating village banking, arguably the world’s most widely-imitated microfinance methodology.
- Clare Torry
Clare Torry is a British singer, best known for her soulfully evocative wordless vocals on Pink Floyd's "The Great Gig in the Sky" on the 1973 album "The Dark Side of the Moon". Torry has also performed as a session singer and live backing vocalist with Kevin Ayers, Olivia Newton-John, The Alan Parsons Project (for which she also sang lead vocal on one track), Procol Harum mainman Gary Brooker, Matthew Fisher, Cerrone, Culture Club (on their hit "The War Song"), …
- Gary Grubbs
Gary Grubbs (born November 14, 1949, in Amory, Mississippi) is an American actor. Grubbs has several film and television credits to his name, including his portrayal of attorney Al Oser in Oliver Stone's "JFK". In the '90s he landed two notable (albeit short-lived) recurring television roles. On "Growing Pains", he played George Brower, Luke Brower (Leonardo DiCaprio)'s long-lost father, and on "Will & Grace", he played Harlin Polk, …
- Paul Tobias
Paul Tobias (b. 1963), also known as Paul Huge, is a former rhythm guitarist of the American hard rock band Guns N' Roses and the lead guitarist of mank Rage. A childhood friend of Axl Rose, Tobias had been connected with the band from its early days, and was thanked in the credits for "Appetite for Destruction". He co-wrote "Back Off Bitch", "Shadow Of Your Love", "Oh My God", …
- Jim Meskimen
Jim Meskimen (born Los Angeles, California, 10th September 1959) is an American comedian and actor, best known for his work on the improvisation show "Whose Line Is It Anyway?". A graduate in fine art from the University of California and a former animator, Meskimen's extensive range of impersonations and vocalisations has made him a frequent recruit to high-profile advertising campaigns in the USA.
- Richard Greenbury
Sir Richard Greenbury was both chairman and chief executive of the British retailing giant Marks and Spencer from 1988 to 1999. During his tenure the company continued to grow strongly until it reached its peak in 1997 and 1998 when it was the second most profitable retailer in the world after Wal-Mart, and the ninth largest company in Britain. Nevertheless, shortly after Sir Richard resigned from his post, the company plunged into crisis when Peter Salisbury was promoted, …
- Georges Corraface
Georges Corraface is a Greek actor who has had an international career in film and television, following many years in French theatre, notably as a member of the famed Peter Brook Company. His film credits include "To Tama", "Escape from L.A.", "La Pasión Turca", "Vive La Mariée", "Impromptu", "Christopher Columbus" and a feature film debut in "The Mahabharata".
- Linda Lee Cadwell
Linda Lee Cadwell (born March 21, 1945), a.k.a. Linda Emery, is an American teacher and the widow of martial arts master and actor Bruce Lee, founder of Jeet Kune Do. She was born and raised in Seattle, Washington, USA. She is of Swedish and English descent. Linda met Bruce Lee while she was attending Garfield High School, where Bruce came to give a Kung Fu demonstration; he was attending the University of Washington at the time.
- Henry Dunning MacLeod
Henry Dunning Macleod (1821 - July 16, 1902), Scottish economist, was born in Edinburgh, and educated at Eton, Edinburgh University, and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1843. He travelled in Europe, and in 1849 was called to the English bar. He was employed in Scotland on the work of poor-law reform, and devoted himself to the study of economics. In 1856 he published his "Theory and Practice of Banking", …
- Steve Steen
Steve Steen (born December 26 1954) is a British actor and comedian best known for his improvisation partnership with Jim Sweeney. The pair met at school in London and joined a theatre club in 1972. The two then wrote and starred in a show which parodied much of the other shows being held in London that year. They then formed their own theatre company and wrote and toured productions around the UK for the rest of the 1970s.
- Bernie Hansen
Bernie Hansen was a longtime Chicago alderman, serving on the Chicago Board of Aldermen from 1983 to 2002, when he retired as alderman of the 44th Ward citing health reasons. He is a Democrat. Hansen was appointed to the Council when the incumbent alderman unexpectedly resigned. In 1987 he defeated Dr. Ron Sable, a liberal gay activist, by a 52% to 47% margin in the race for 44th Ward alderman. It was a hard-fought campaign in the city's 44th Ward, …
- Tom Lingenfelter
Tom Lingenfelter is a teacher, historian, intelligence agent, businessman, and political activist from the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. He is a perennial candidate for public office and was an Independent candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania in 2006. Lingenfelter was born on a farm in then-rural Blair County, Pennsylvania in 1939.
- Leo Sidran
Leo Sidran is a musician, composer, performer, and producer whose credits include producing the soundtrack for the movie "The Motorcycle Diaries". He began his career in music early. Having learned to play the drums from legendary funk-jazz percussionist Clyde Stubblefield, he toured as a teenager with veteran rock star Steve Miller. The Steve Miller Band recorded Leo's songs before he had graduated from high school.
- James Lackington
James Lackington was a London bookseller who is credited with revolutionizing the British book trade. A shoemaker's son, Lackington taught himself to read and eventually became a wealthy man. He is best known for refusing credit at his shop – no exceptions – and by instead receiving cash in return for every item was able to reduce the price of books throughout his store. He also saved remaindered books from destruction and resold them at bargain prices, …
- Eugene F. McDonald
Eugene F. McDonald (1886-1958) founded Zenith Radio in 1921, a major American radio and electronics concern. He was born in 1886 in Syracuse, New York. His father was variously remembered as a storekeeper and insurance salesman. McDonald dropped out of high school at age 14 to help support the family. In 1904, he began working for the Franklin Auto Company in Syracuse. He quickly rose in the sales and promotion areas and made a name for himself in that endeavour.
- Charles Markham Anderson
Charles Markham Anderson (sometimes credited as C. Markham Anderson, Markham Anderson, or Mark Anderson) is a voice-over actor and a cinematographer in the independent film industry, the music video world (MTV), and the advertising business. Anderson has produced more than 600 television ads featuring clients ranging from Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson to national clients such as North Beach Leather and Toyota.
- Sibylle Blanc
"Sibylle Blanc" (born January 3, 1974 in Aubonne, Vaud) is a French speaking Swiss actress who is actively involved in theatrical, film, television and radio productions in her native Switzerland as well as in nearby France. <br /><br /> She recently co-hosted the morning show "Les Matinales" on a local Lausanne based radio station Lausanne FM and appears frequently on television programs produced by the French Swiss national TV station, TSR.
- Anthony Ebright
Anthony is a Sonoma County Mortgage Lender with over 18 years experience. He has the ability to provide mortgages and loan programs for people who are relocating within the United States. He is interested in educating and helping as many home owners or potential homeowners as possible nationwide.
- Clay Hart
Clay Hart (born July 1, 1942) is an American country music singer and guitarist who was a member of "The Lawrence Welk Show" television program from 1969 to 1975. Born Henry Clay Hart III and raised in Providence, Rhode Island; he attended Amherst College in Massachusetts as a theater arts major.
- Peter Wuffli
Dr Peter A. Wuffli (born 26 October 1957 in Zurich) was appointed President of the Group Executive Board of UBS AG in December 2001 and Group Chief Executive Officer in September 2003. Previously, he was Chairman and CEO of UBS Asset Management and, before that, UBS Group Chief Financial Officer. From 1994 to 1998, he was the Chief Financial Officer at SBC and a member of SBC's Group Executive Board in Basel.
- Lennart Augustsson
Lennart Augustsson is currently employed by Credit Suisse. He was previously a lecturer at the Computing Science Department at Chalmers University of Technology. His research field is functional programming and implementations of functional languages. Lennart is the author of: * The Cayenne programming language. * The HBC Haskell compiler. * Several hardware device drivers for NetBSD. * The front end of the pH compiler (parallel Haskell) from MIT.
- Robert Joseph
Robert Joseph is a well known British-born wine expert and writer. In 1984, with Charles Metcalfe, he launched Wine International Magazine and the London International Wine Challenge, which grew to become the world's biggest wine competition. Since then Joseph has also launched International Wine Challenges in Asia (China, Japan, Vietnam, Singapore, Hong Kong) and Russia and in 2007 will launch the first event of this kind in India.
- Alfred Escher
Alfred Escher was a Swiss politician and railroad entrepreneur. Member of the Swiss National Council from 1848 to his death 1882, he presided the council three times (1849/50, 1856/57 and 1862/63). Escher was endorsing an idea of building and running the railway lines in Switzerland based on private companies. Later (since 1853), through his position of the president of railway companies, he became a railway magnate.
- Aditya Mittal
Aditya Mittal is a Member of the Board of Directors and President and Chief Financial Officer of the world's largest steel firm Mittal Steel, which is majority owned by his father Lakshmi Mittal, who was ranked the fifth richest person in the world by "Forbes" in 2006. He has a Bachelor's Degree of Science in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, from which he graduated "magna cum laude" in 1996.
- Stacy Blackman
Stacy Sukov Blackman, born in 1971, has been consulting on the Master of Business Administration degree application process since 2001. She has an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a BS from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Stacy has worked with the admissions committees at both schools, conducting alumni interviews and evaluating applicants.
- Mae Sexton
Mae Sexton is an Irish politician. She was a Progressive Democrats TD for the Longford-Roscommon constituency from 2002 to 2007. She is a native of the townland of Glack, near Longford town. Her election in a predominantly rural midland constituency for a party often associated with the urban middle classes was one of the major surprises of that election, and came after a series of near misses from elimination during the progress of the election count.
- Herschel Hardin
Herschel Hardin (born 1936) is a British Columbia-based writer, playwright, commentator and political activist and consultant best known for having contested the leadership of the New Democratic Party of Canada in 1995. Hardin grew up in Vegreville, Alberta and attended university at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. He started his professional career as a playwright following his graduation. His best known play is "Esker Mike and His Wife, Agiluk".
- David Mulford
David Campbell Mulford (born June 1937) is the current United States Ambassador to the Republic of India. He took office on January 23, 2004. Mulford was born in Rockford, Illinois. He earned his bachelor's degree from Lawrence University in 1959, his master's degree from Boston University in 1962 and his Ph. D. from Oxford University in 1965.
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a French mutualist political philosopher of the socialist tradition. He was the first individual to call himself an "anarchist" and is considered among the first anarchist thinkers. He was a workingman, a printer, who taught himself to read Latin so as to print books in that language well. Proudhon is most famous for his assertion that "Property is theft!", in "What is Property? Or, …
- Howard Porter
Howard Porter is a comic book artist from southern Connecticut. He graduated from Paier College of Art in Connecticut where he majored in illustration. One of his teachers there was Frank McLaughlin. McLaughlin also worked as a comic book inker and he began to give Porter work assisting him in his inking jobs which led Porter to assist other inkers and eventually find work for himself in the industry.
- Frank Quattrone
Frank Quattrone (born 1956) is a former investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston who helped bring dozens of companies public during the 1990s tech boom, including Netscape, Cisco, and Amazon.com. Later he was prosecuted for interfering with a government probe into Credit Suisse First Boston's behavior in allocating "hot" IPOs. The case was eventually dropped. He was earning roughly $160 million a year during his peak at the firm.
- Edward Filene
Edward Albert Filene (b. September 3, 1860, Salem, Massachusetts - d. September 26, 1937, Paris, France) was an American businessman, entrepreneur and philanthropist who served as an early president of the Boston firm of William Filene's Sons, later known as "Filene's". Filene is credited with developing a number of novel retailing techniques such as complete and honest descriptions of their merchandise, offers of "money back if not satisfied", …
- Adebayo Ogunlesi
Adebayo Ogunlesi (born 1953) is a Nigerian businessman. A 1979 graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, he also studied at Oxford. Ogunlesi was in charge of Global Investment Banking at at Credit Suisse First Boston before being promoted to chief client officer and executive vice chairman.
- Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs
Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs is the son of Juan Antonio Samaranch (former president of the International Olympic Committee) and his late wife Bibi Salisachs. He's married and has four children. He has a MBA from New York University and a degree in industrial engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Barcelona. In 1986 he joined as an associate of The First Boston Corporation, in New York, until 1989. He was appointed that year to the vice-presidency, …
- Moses Coady
Rev. Dr. Moses Michael Coady. Moses Coady, a Roman Catholic priest, adult educator and co-operative entrepreneur, is best known for his instrumental role in the Antigonish Movement. Credited with introducing "an entirely new organizational technique: that of action based on preliminary study" to the co-operative movement in Canada, his work sparked a wave of co-operative development across the Maritimes and credit union development across English Canada.
- Dorimène Roy Desjardins
Marie-Clara Dorimène Roy Desjardins and her husband Alphonse Desjardins were co-founders of the "Caisses populaires Desjardins" (today Desjardins Group), a forerunner of North American credit unions.
- Louise McCarren Herring
Louise McCarren Herring (20 September 1909 - 2 November 1987), an Ohio native, is recognized as one of the pioneer leaders of the non-profit cooperative credit union movement in the United States. Herring is universally regarded in the United States credit union movement as being the "Mother of Credit Unions" for her work with the movement since its earliest days. Herring was one the attendees at the Estes Park, …
- Alfred Rouleau
Alfred Rouleau, CC (1915 - October 19, 1985) was a Canadian businessman and President of the Fédération du Québec des Caisses Populaires Desjardins, Quebec's largest credit union. Born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, he was elected President of Desjardins in 1972 and served until 1981.
- Maynard Sonntag
Maynard Sonntag is the current Minister of Crown Investments Corporation and First Nations and Metis Relations in the government of Saskatchewan and MLA for Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan. He was raised and educated in Goodsoil, Saskatchewan. Prior to being elected, Sonntag was a manager in the Credit Union system from 1980-1991. Sonntag was first elected to the Legislature in 1991 and was re-elected in 1995, 1999 and 2003.