- Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden, most often mentioned as Osama bin Laden or Usama bin Laden, is a Saudi militant Islamist and is reported to be the founder of the organization called al-Qaeda. He is a member of the wealthy bin Laden family. In conjunction with several other Islamic militant leaders, … - Mr. Criminal
Mr. Criminal is a Chicano rapper from Los Angeles, California, signed to Hi Power Entertainment, a record label. His first album, "Criminal Mentality" first came out in the year 2001. His influence to performing such themes is Lil' Rob, a Chicano rapper from San Diego. - Martha Stewart
Martha’s public turnaround on fur began this spring, when she responded from jail to a letter from PETA Vice President Dan Mathews , explaining that the fur she famously wore the day of her sentencing was fake. Martha credits her vegetarian daughter, Alexis , who costars in her new show, The Apprentice: Martha Stewart , with making her aware of animal issues. - Jack Abramoff
Jack Abramoff (born February 28, 1959) is a former American political lobbyist, a Republican political activist and businessman who was a central figure in a series of high-profile political scandals. Abramoff pled guilty on January 3, 2006, to three criminal felony counts in a Washington, D.C., federal court related to the defrauding of American Indian tribes and corruption of public officials. - Al Capone
Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 - January 25, 1947), popularly known as "Scarface" Al Capone, was an American gangster who led a crime syndicate dedicated to the illegal trafficking of alcoholic beverages during the time of prohibition in the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Brooklyn, New York, to Neapolitan emigrants Gabriele and Teresina Capone, … - Timothy McVeigh
Timothy James McVeigh (April 23, 1968 - June 11, 2001), commonly referred to as the Oklahoma City bomber, was convicted of eleven federal offenses and ultimately executed as a result of his role on the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing. The bombing, which claimed 168 lives, was the deadliest act of terrorism in American history until the September 11, 2001 attacks and remains the deadliest incident of domestic terrorism in the United States. - Jack Black
Jack Black was a late 19th century/early 20th century hobo and professional burglar, living out the dying age of the Wild West. He wrote "You Can't Win", a memoir or sketched autobiography describing his days on the road and life as an honorable outlaw. Black's book was written as an anti-crime book urging criminals to go straight but is also his statement of belief in the futility of prisons and the criminal justice system, hence the title of the book. - John Dean
John Wesley Dean III (b. October 14, 1938) was White House Counsel to U.S. President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973. As White House Counsel, he became deeply involved in events leading to the Watergate first break-in and the subsequent Watergate scandal cover up, even referred to as "master manipulator of the cover up" by the FBI. He was convicted of multiple felonies as a result of Watergate, and went on to become a key witness for the prosecution, … - Duke Cunningham
Randall Harold Cunningham (born December 8 1941), usually known as Randy or Duke, was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from California's 50th Congressional District from 1991 to 2005. Cunningham resigned from the House on November 28 2005 after pleading guilty to accepting at least $2.4 million in bribes and underreporting his income for 2004. - Alan Dershowitz
Alan Morton Dershowitz (born September 1, 1938) is an American political figure and criminal law professor at Harvard Law School known for his extensive published works, career as an attorney in several high-profile law cases, and commentary on the Arab-Israeli conflict. He has spent most of his career at Harvard Law School, where, at the age of 28, he became the youngest full professor in the history of Harvard, … - Rodney King
Rodney Glen King (born April 2, 1965 in Sacramento, California) is an African-American taxi driver who became famous after his violent arrest by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) was videotaped by a bystander, George Holliday. The incident raised a public outcry among people who believed it was racially motivated. - Patrick Henry
Patrick Henry is a French criminal, born on March 31 1953 in Troyes (France). - Conrad Black
Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, PC, OC, KCSG (born 25 August, 1944, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a former financier and newspaper magnate who was convicted of fraud and obstruction of justice on 13 July 2007. He has written several biographies, including one about Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Black is Canadian-born but publicly renounced his Canadian citizenship in 2001 in order to become a life peer in the British House of Lords. - Pete Doherty
Peter Doherty is an English musician, artist and poet. He is currently the singer and songwriter of the band Babyshambles, and has briefly re-united with Carl Barât who was co-frontman and songwriter (along with Doherty) of The Libertines, with whom he first shot to fame. Since 2005, he has become well known to the public at large as a result of his relationship with supermodel Kate Moss, his status amongst fans and his infamous rock and roll lifestyle. - David Duke
David Ernest Duke is a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, a candidate in presidential primaries for both the Democratic and Republican parties, and former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Duke is a self-styled "white nationalist," and he is commonly referred to by his opponents as a white supremacist. He says he does not think of himself as a racist, however, … - Mark Wahlberg
Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5 1971) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor, and television producer. Also known as Marky Mark in his earlier days, he had become famous in his debut as a rap musician with the band Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. He also enjoyed great fame as a sought-after advertising icon. - Kenneth Lay
Kenneth Lee "Ken" Lay (April 15, 1942 - July 5, 2006) was an American businessman, best known for his role in the widely-reported corruption scandal that led to the downfall of Enron Corporation. Lay and Enron became synonymous with corporate abuse and accounting fraud when the scandal broke in 2001. Lay was the CEO and chairman of Enron from 1986 until his resignation on January 23, 2002, except for a few months in 2001 when he was chairman and Jeffrey Skilling was CEO. - Michael Brown
Michael Robert Alexander Brown is a Scottish businessman, who between 10 February and 30 March 2005 donated £2.4 million to the British Liberal Democrats. He is the largest donor that political party has ever had, giving ten times more than anything the party had received before. On 25 September 2006 he was convicted to serve 18 months in prison for perjury and 6 months for making an untrue statement to obtain a passport in his pursuit to adopt a child. - Michael Howard
Michael Howard was known as an American bicycle manufacturer and business owner (Medici Bicycle Company) before his arrest and conviction as the so-called "Hair Bandit". Howard was arrested Jan. 1, 2002, and pleaded guilty on April 3, 2002 and was sentenced to eight years in prison for cutting off the hair of nine women and a 12 year old girl on the streets of Long Beach and East Los Angeles. It is likely that Howard was acting out a Hair Fetish. - George Ryan
George Homer Ryan (born February 24, 1934 in Maquoketa, Iowa) was the Republican Governor of the U.S. state of Illinois from 1999 until 2003. Although Ryan "raised the national debate on capital punishment" by issuing a moratorium on executions in 2000, he was marked by corruption and racketeering charges that led to his retiring from politics in 2003, and to criminal convictions in 2006. - Heidi Fleiss
Heidi Lynne Fleiss (born December 30 1965), known as the "Hollywood Madam", is a former American madam. She was convicted in connection with her prostitution ring with charges including pandering and tax evasion. Her ring had numerous famous and wealthy clients. She was sentenced to 37 months in prison for tax evasion, (pandering charges were dropped) but served just 21. Her father, Doctor Paul M. Fleiss is a famous Intactivist (one who opposes circumcision). - Sandy Berger
Samuel Richard "Sandy" Berger (born October 28, 1945) served as the 19th United States National Security Advisor under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001. In his position, he helped to formulate the foreign policy of the Clinton Administration. During this time he advised the President regarding the Khobar Towers bombing, Operation Desert Fox and other actions against Iraq, the NATO bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, … - Lee Harvey Oswald
Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 - November 24, 1963) was, according to two United States government investigations, the assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. A former Marine who defected to the Soviet Union and later returned, Oswald was arrested later that day on suspicion of killing the president and Dallas police officer J. D. Tippit. Oswald denied any responsibility for the murders. - Howard Hughes
Howard Hughes (born 1965) is a convicted child murderer. - Don Siegelman
Donald Eugene "Don" Siegelman (born February 24, 1946, in Mobile, Alabama) is a former American Democratic politician. He was the governor of Alabama from 1999 to 2003. Don Siegelman is the only person in the history of Alabama to be elected to serve in all four of the top statewide offices: Secretary of State, Attorney General, Lieutenant Governor and Governor. He served in Alabama politics for 26 years, winning his first election for the governorship with 57% of the vote, … - Bob Ney
Robert William "Bob" Ney (born July 5 1954) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Ohio. A Republican, Ney represented Ohio's 18th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 until November 3, 2006, when he resigned. Ney's resignation followed his October 13, 2006 guilty plea to charges of conspiracy and making false statements in relation to the Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal. - Guy Fawkes
Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 - 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes, was a member of a group of English Roman Catholics who attempted to carry out the Gunpowder Plot on 5 November 1605. - Anthony Papa
Anthony Papa, co-author (with Jennifer Wynn) of "15 to Life", is an advocate against the war on drugs and co-founder of the "Mothers of the New York Disappeared". "15 to Life", published in 2004, is an autobiographical account of Papa's experience with the New York criminal justice system and anti-narcotics laws under which he was sentenced to fifteen years to life imprisonment for a first time drug offense. - John Holmes
John Curtis Holmes better known as John C. Holmes or Johnny Wadd (after the lead character in a series of related films), was one of the most famous male adult film stars of all time, appearing in about 2,500 adult loops, stag films, and porno feature movies in the 1970s and 1980s, including at least one gay feature film and a handful of gay loops. He was best known for his exceptionally large penis, … - Robert Hanssen
Robert Philip Hanssen (b. April 18, 1944) is a former American FBI agent who engaged in spying for the Soviet Union and Russia against the U.S. for a period of at least 15 years. He is currently in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day at the Supermax Federal Penitentiary in Florence, Colorado.. Hanssen was arrested on February 18, 2001, at Foxstone Park near his home in Vienna, Virginia, … - Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson (born 6 December 1952) is the adopted name of Michael Peterson, a British criminal. Bronson was born in Aberystwyth, before moving to Merseyside, and later Luton, which is often referred to as his home town. Bronson states on his website that contrary to reports frequently made in the press, his name was changed by his fight promoter in 1987 and was not a choice he made in relation to the actor, Charles Bronson. - Rogue
The word rogue, a cultural icon of villainy and criminality, was first recorded in print in Thomas Awdeley’s "Fraternity of Vagabonds" (1561), and then in Thomas Harman’s "Caveat for Common Cursitors". The 1572 Vagabond Act defined a rogue as a healthy person who has no land, no master, and no legitimate trade or source of income; it included rogues in the class of idle vagrants or vagabonds. If a person was apprehended as a rogue, … - Sean Phillips
Sean Phillips is a British comic book artist, inker, and penciller. He is best known in the American comic industry for his work on DC Comics' "Sleeper", "WildC.A.T.s", "Batman" and "Hellblazer". Much of Phillips' British work has yet to be collected in book form, … - George Jones
George Glenn Jones (born September 12, 1931), is an American country music artist known for his distinctive voice and phrasing that frequently evoke the raw emotions caused by grief, unhappy love, and emotional hardship. He has had more songs than any other singer on the country charts - 167 as of November, 2005. He has also had the most Top 40 Hits - 143 - and is second to Eddy Arnold with the most Top 10 Hits - 78. Over the past twenty years, … - Elliott Abrams
Elliott Abrams (born January 24, 1948) is an American lawyer who has served in foreign policy positions for two Republican U.S. Presidents, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. During Bush's first term in office, he was appointed the post of Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director on the National Security Council for Near East and North African Affairs. - Frank Lucas
Frank Lucas was a heroin dealer in Harlem in the early 1970s. He claims to have grossed $1 million a day selling drugs on 116th Street. Federal judge Sterling Johnson, who was special narcotics prosecutor in New York at the time of Lucas's crimes, called Lucas's operation "one of the most outrageous international dope-smuggling gangs ever. - Rick James
Rick James (born James Ambrose Johnson, Jr) (February 1 1948 - August 6 2004) was one of the most popular artists on the Motown label during the late 1970s and early 1980s. James was famous for his wild brand of funk music and his trademark braids, sporting them well before the style was popularized. As time went on, James was given the unofficial title "The King of Punk-Funk". - Terry Nichols
Terry Lynn Nichols (born April 1, 1955) is a U.S. Army veteran who was convicted of being an accomplice of Timothy McVeigh, the man convicted of murder in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, April 19, 1995), which claimed 168 lives. Nichols was convicted of eight counts of manslaughter in a United States District Court and was sentenced to life imprisonment in ADX Florence, a supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. - Suge Knight
Marion Knight, Jr., a.k.a Sugar Bear, Suge Knight (Pronounced:) (born April 19, 1965 in Compton, California), is a controversial entrepreneur in the hip hop music industry and co-founder of Death Row Records. He is the CEO of Death Row Records. The record label rose to dominate the charts after Dr. Dre's breakthrough success "The Chronic" in 1992. After several years of chart successes for artists including Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, … - Lynne Stewart
Lynne F. Stewart (born October 8, 1939) is an American radical activist. As an attorney, she represented controversial, and often unpopular, defendants, including black nationalists, members of the Weather Underground, Mafia figures, and convicted terrorists. In 2005, Stewart was accused of helping pass messages from her client, Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, an Egyptian cleric convicted of planning terror attacks, to his followers in al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, …
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