- Jack Coffey
Jack Coffey is director, California government affairs, policy, government and public affairs, for Chevron Corp., headquartered in Sacramento, Calif. In this capacity, he has direct responsibility for the company’s interests in California politics and supervises a team lobbying the legislature and regulatory bodies in the State. - Maria Elena-Rico
Maria Elena-Rico - Helen Bernstein High School, Director, California - George Lucas
George Walton Lucas, Jr. is a four-time Academy Award nominated American film director, producer, and screenwriter famous for his epic "Star Wars" saga and Indiana Jones films — the latter a collaboration with his friend Steven Spielberg. He is one of American film industry's most financially successful independent directors and producers, with an estimated net worth of $3.6 billion. - Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood (born Clinton Eastwood, Jr. on May 31, 1930) is an American actor, composer, film director and producer. While his recent work as a director, on films like "Million Dollar Baby" and "Letters from Iwo Jima", is consistently praised by critics, Eastwood is perhaps most famous for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles, … - Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, actor, and screenwriter. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an auteur indie filmmaker whose films used postmodern nonlinear storylines, and stylized violence interwoven with often-obscure cinematic references. His films include "Reservoir Dogs" (1992), " Pulp Fiction" (1994), "Jackie Brown" (1997), "Kill Bill" (Vol. 1 2003, Vol. - John Wayne
John Wayne (May 26, 1907 - June 11, 1979) was an iconic, Academy Award-winning, American film actor. He epitomized ruggedly individualistic masculinity, and has become an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive voice, walk and height. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Wayne thirteenth among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. A Harris Poll released in 2007 placed Wayne third among America's favorite film stars, … - Sean Penn
Sean Justin Penn (born August 17, 1960) is an American film actor and director who is perhaps best known for playing intense, often humorless and unsympathetic characters. - Kevin Costner
Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American film actor and director who has often produced his own films. - Forest Whitaker
Forest Steven Whitaker (born July 15, 1961) is an American actor, producer, and director. For his performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the 2006 film, "The Last King of Scotland", Whitaker won several major awards, including an Oscar, a Golden Globe, and a BAFTA. He became the fourth African American to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, following in the footsteps of Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, and Jamie Foxx. - Diane Keaton
Diane Keaton (born Diane Hall on January 5, 1946) is an Academy Award-winning American film actress, director and producer. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970. Her first major film role was as Kay Adams in "The Godfather" (1972), but the films that shaped her early career were those with director and co-star Woody Allen, beginning with "Play It Again, Sam" (1972). - James Franco
James Edward Franco (born April 19 1978) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, film producer, and artist. He began acting during the late 1990s, appearing on the series "Freaks and Geeks" and starring in several teen films. He won a Golden Globe Award for playing the title role in the made-for-television film "James Dean", and has become known among audiences for his role as Harry Osborn in the Spider-Man films. - Sofia Coppola
Sofia Carmina Coppola (born May 14, 1971) is an American directress, actress, producer, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter. She is the first American woman and is only the third woman in history to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing. - Richard Kelly
Richard Kelly (born March 28, 1975 in Newport News, Virginia) is an American film director and writer, best known for 2001's "Donnie Darko". Kelly grew up in Midlothian, Virginia where he attended Midlothian High School before getting a scholarship and moving to Southern California to study at the USC School of Cinema-Television. Before graduating from USC in 1997, he made two short films, The Goodbye Place and Visceral Matter. - Sean Astin
Sean Astin (born Sean Patrick Duke on February 25, 1971) is an American film actor, director, and Oscar-nominated producer, most famous for his film roles as Mikey in "The Goonies", the title character of "Rudy", Samwise Gamgee in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, and Drew Barrymore's steroid-juiced brother in "50 First Dates". He also appeared as Lynn McGill on the fifth season of the television series "24". - Walter Matthau
Walter Matthau (October 1, 1920 - July 1, 2000) was an Academy Award-winning American comedy actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in "The Odd Couple" and his frequent collaborations with fellow "Odd Couple" star Jack Lemmon. - Michael Ovitz
Michael S. Ovitz (b. December 14 1946, Los Angeles, California) is a former talent agent and Hollywood powerhouse who served as the head of the Creative Artists Agency from 1975 to 1995. After graduating from UCLA with a degree in theater, film and television, Ovitz began his career at the William Morris Agency, but left with four other agents in 1975 to found Creative Artists Agency. While at CAA, he was responsible for pioneering the practice of "packaging" writers, … - Steve Kubby
Steve Wynn Kubby (born December 28 1946) is a Libertarian Party activist who played a key role in the drafting and passage of California Proposition 215. The proposition was a ballot initiative to legalize medical marijuana which was approved by voters in 1996. Kubby himself is well-known as a cancer patient who relies on medical cannabis. He has authored two books on drug policy reform: "The Politics of Consciousness", and "Why Marijuana Should Be Legal". - Kary Mullis
Kary Banks Mullis, Ph.D. (born December 28, 1944) is an American biochemist and Nobel laureate. Dr Mullis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1993 for his development of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), a central technique in biochemistry and molecular biology which allows the amplification of specified DNA sequences. Dr Mullis subsequently was awarded the Japan Prize that same year. - John D. Barrow
John David Barrow FRS (born November 29, 1952, London) is an English cosmologist, theoretical physicist, and mathematician. He is currently Research Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Barrow is also a writer of popular science and an amateur playwright. Barrow obtained his first degree in Mathematics and physics from Van Mildert College at the University of Durham in 1974. - Walt Elias Disney
Walter Elias Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Disney is notable as one of the most influential and innovative figures in the field of entertainment during the twentieth century. As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Walt became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. - Michael Moore
Michael Francis Moore (born April 23 1954) is an Academy Award-winning American director and producer of "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Bowling for Columbine", two of the highest-grossing documentaries of all time. He is a vocal critic of globalization, large corporations, gun violence, the Iraq War, U.S. President George W. Bush and the American health care system. In 2005 Time magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people. - Gaddi Vasquez
Ambassador Gaddi Holguin Vasquez (born January 22 1955) is the 8th United States Representative to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, in Rome, Italy. He was nominated by President George W. Bush and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on June 29, 2006. Mr. Vasquez was sworn into office on September 7 2006 by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Prior to that, he was the Director of the United States Peace Corps. - Kelly Perdew
Kelly Crawford Perdew (born January 29,1967) of Carlsbad, California was the winner of the second season of "The Apprentice". - John Lasseter
John A. Lasseter (born January 12, 1957) is an Academy Award-winning American animator and the chief creative officer at Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios. He is also currently the Principal Creative Advisor for Walt Disney Imagineering. Widely considered an innovative genius, many praise him as the "current Walt Disney." - Edward James Olmos
Edward James Olmos (born February 24, 1947) is an Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated American actor, of Mexican descent, best known for his roles of Lt. Martin Castillo in "Miami Vice", Jaime Escalante in "Stand and Deliver" and Admiral William Adama in the "Battlestar Galactica" re-imagined series. - Cindy Hensley McCain
Cindy McCain (Born in 1954) is an American businesswoman and philanthropist. She is the second wife of United States Senator John McCain. She serves as Chairperson of her family's business, Hensley & Company, and previously founded the American Voluntary Medical Team in 1988, leading many medical missions to developing and war-torn countries during the Team's seven-year existence. - Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir (September 15, 1894 - February 12, 1979), born in the Montmartre district of Paris, France, was a film director, actor and author. He was the second son of Aline Charigot and the French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. He was also the brother of Pierre Renoir, a noted French stage and film actor; the uncle of Claude Renoir, a cinematographer; and the father of Alain Renoir, a professor emeritus of comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley. - John H. N. Fisher
John H. N. Fisher is a venture capitalist, best known for being a managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), with Timothy C. "Tim" Draper, and Steven "Steve" Jurvetson. He is also currently on the boards of companies CMI Marketing, Hands On Mobile (formerly MFORMA), Raydiance, Inc., Selectica, and Visto. He currently lives in San Francisco. - Alex Band
Alex Band (born Alexander Max Band, June 8, 1981, Los Angeles, California) is the singer in the Los Angeles based band, The Calling. Band is Jewish. - Harry Shearer
Harry Julius Shearer (born December 23, 1943) is an American comedic actor and writer. - Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 - December 4, 1993) was an American composer, guitarist, singer, film director, and satirist. In his more than 30-year long career, Frank Zappa established himself as one of the most prolific and distinctive musician-composer-band leaders of his era. Zappa worked in almost every musical genre and wrote music for rock bands, jazz ensembles, synthesisers and symphony orchestra, as well as radiophonic works constructed from pre-recorded, … - Ron Howard
Ronald William Howard (born March 1, 1954 in Duncan, Oklahoma) is a American actor, film director, and producer, primarily for his roles on sitcoms, movies and television, who came to prominence in the 1960s as Andy Griffith's son, Opie Taylor, on "The Andy Griffith Show", and later as Tom Bosley's son & Henry Winkler's best friend, Richie Cunningham, on "Happy Days" (a role he played from 1974 to 1980). - Jim Morrison
James Douglas Morrison was an American singer, songwriter, writer, film director, and poet. He was best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the popular American rock band The Doors, and is considered to be one of the most charismatic, unique, and influential frontmen in the history of rock music. He was also an author of several poetry books, a documentary, short film, and three early music videos ("The Unknown Soldier", "Moonlight Drive", and "People are Strange"). - Kim Zetter
Kim Zetter is an American freelance journalist in Oakland, California. She has written on a wide variety of subjects from the Kabbalah to dining out in San Francisco to Israel to cryptography and electronic voting, and her work has been published in newspapers and magazines all over the world, including the "Los Angeles Times", "San Francisco Chronicle", "Jerusalem Post", "San Jose Mercury News", "Detroit Free Press", … - Dr. Dre
André Romell Young, better known by his stage name Dr. Dre, is an American record producer, rapper, actor and record executive. He is the founder and current CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and a former co-owner and artist of Death Row Records. Young is a significant figure in the development of rap music. He was a founding member of the influential rap group N.W.A., … - Michael Tilson Thomas
Michael Tilson Thomas (b. December 21, 1944), aka MTT, is an American conductor, pianist and composer who directs the San Francisco Symphony. - John Riccitiello
John Riccitiello is the CEO of Electronic Arts. He received his B.S. degree from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He then worked in a variety of consumer product companies including the The Clorox Company (Brand Manager]], PepsiCo (Group Marketing Director), Haagen-Dazs International (Managing Director), Wilson Sporting Goods (President and Chief Executive Officer), and Sara Lee Corporation (President and Chief Executive Officer, Bakery Division). - Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford (March 23 1905 - May 10 1977), was an acclaimed, iconic, Academy Award-winning American actress, arguably one of the greatest from the Golden Age of Hollywood from the 1920s through 1940s. The American Film Institute named Crawford among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time, ranking her at number ten. Starting as a dancer, she was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in 1925 and played in small parts. - Vic Morrow
Victor Morrow (born February 14, 1929 in the Bronx, New York, USA - died July 23, 1982) was an American actor. Morrow dropped out of high school and joined the U.S. Navy at age 17. Morrow's first movie role was in "Blackboard Jungle" (1955). After this movie, he went into television and was cast in the TV series "Combat!" (1962-1967), in which he also worked as a television director. - Michael Dorn
Michael Dorn (born December 9, 1952) is an American actor known for his role as the Klingon Worf in multiple "Star Trek" shows and movies.
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