- Junkyard Dog
Sylvester Ritter was an American professional wrestler best known for his work in Mid-South Wrestling and the World Wrestling Federation as The Junkyard Dog (or JYD for short). - Saint Dog
Saint Dog, was an original member of the Kottonmouth Kings along with D-Loc, Johnny Richter, and Brad Daddy X. He contributed to their first three albums ("Stoners Reeking Havoc", "Royal Highness", and "Hidden Stash") before leaving to pursue a career with his brother, Big Hoss, who was arrested for distribution of cocaine. Saint Dog's unique slurred raps helped create the West Coast style the Kottonmouth Kings represent. - Tim Dog
Tim Dog (real name Timothy Blair, born January 1 ,1967) is an American rapper from the Bronx, New York who rose to prominence during the early '90s with his debut LP "Penicillin on Wax" and the hit record "Fuck Compton". Tim had already appeared on songs with the Ultramagnetic MCs and went on to form a duo, Ultra, with member Kool Keith. - Top Dog
Top Dog is an American rapper, member of the Hip Hop supergroup Boot Camp Clik, and the trio O.G.C.. Top Dog (also known as Big Kahuna and D.O.) debuted on Smif-N-Wessun's "Dah Shinin'" in 1995, appearing on the single "Sound Bwoy Bureill" and the track "Cession at da Doghillee". Top Dog became a member of The Fab 5 in 1995, releasing the hit single "Blah" b/w "Leflaur Leflah Eshkoshka". - Sen Dog
Sen Dog (born Senen Reyes, November 20 1965, in Havana, Cuba) is an Afro-Cuban rapper, and member of the well known rap group Cypress Hill. He is the older brother of fellow rapper Mellow Man Ace. Sen Dog has been developing his own solo career in addition to his work with Cypress Hill. - He Dog
He Dog (Lakota: "Sunka Bloka") (ca. 1840-1936). A member of the Oglala Lakota, He Dog was closely associated with Crazy Horse during the Great Sioux War of 1876-77. - Dj Mad Dog
Filippo Calcagni, also known as Dj Mad Dog, started his DJ career just as joke. In 1995 after 3 years of hard work with the tecnichs, he met two friends (an M.C. and a DJ) with whom he formed a team: HARDCORE TERRORISTS. With this team Filippo has a lot of success especially in his city Rome. In 1996 the Hardcore Terrorists made their debut with their first live-act at the QUBE (one of the symbol club in Rome). - Vitagraph Dog
Long before Lassie and Rin Tin Tin, there was the first Dog Hero of the silver screen. That dog's name was Jean, the Vitagraph Dog. Around 1907, Maine resident and aspiring writer Laurence Trimble moved to New York City with his dog, Jean. An article he sold to a local magazine paved the way for the two of them to visit Vitagraph Studios to do a story on film making. - Jack Black
Jack Black was rat-catcher and mole destroyer by appointment to Her Majesty Queen Victoria during the middle of the Nineteenth Century. Black cut a striking figure in his self-made "uniform" of scarlet topcoat, waistcoat, and breeches, with a huge leather belt inset with cast-iron rats. Black was, among other things, an accomplished dog breeder. He is quoted in Henry Mayhew's "London Labour and the London Poor", Vol. - Mary Crow Dog
Mary Crow Dog, also known as Mary Brave Bird (born 1953 on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota), is a Native American writer and activist. She is the author of two books, "Lakota Woman" and "Ohitika Woman", and was the subject of the 1994 TNT and Jane Fonda produced movie "Lakota Woman, Siege at Wounded Knee", starring Irene Bedard as Mary Crow Dog, … - Faith
Faith, a bipedal female dog, was born in December of 2002 with only three legs; two fully-developed hind legs and a deformed front leg, which was amputated soon after birth. Her owner, Jude Stringfellow, refused to have her put to sleep as the employees at the veterinary hospital indicated she should. Instead, using a spoon with peanut butter as an incentive, Jude taught Faith to hop and later walk on her two hind legs. - Karen Pryor
Karen Pryor is an author and a scientist with an international reputation in the fields of marine mammal biology and behavioral psychology. Through her work with dolphins in the 1960s, she pioneered modern, force-free animal training methods, and became an authority on applied operant conditioning—the art and science of changing behavior with positive reinforcement. She is a founder and leading proponent of clicker training, … - Liberty
Honor's Foxfire Liberty Hume (AKC Registration Number SB578950) was the Golden Retriever Presidential pet of Gerald R. Ford. Liberty was born February 8, 1974 and given to the president as an 8-month-old puppy by his daughter Susan Ford and new White House photographer David Hume Kennerly in the fall of 1974. The breeder of the dark gold pup was Avis Friberg of Excelsior, Minnesota Liberty was frequently photographed with Ford in the Oval Office, … - James Ellroy
James Ellroy (born Lee Earle Ellroy on March 4, 1948 in Los Angeles, California) is an American writer. He is one of the world's best-selling crime writers and essayists with a unique "telegraphic" writing style, which omits words other writers would consider necessary, and often features sentence fragments. His books are noted for their dark humor and depiction of American authoritarianism. - Sam Brown
Sam Brown, pseudonym of Adam Culbert, is an American illustrator, father and author most famous for his website, explodingdog. The gimmick of the site is that he draws pictures based on titles that visitors to the site send him via email. He has also written two books of art and short stories, "Wish For Something Better" and "Amazing Rain", based on the art of his website. Most of Sam Brown's art is created in Adobe Photoshop on a Wacom tablet, … - Terry
Terry (1933–1944) was a Cairn Terrier whose most famous role was Toto in the movie "The Wizard of Oz" (1939). She appeared in thirteen different movies but was only credited in the one. Terry was trained and owned by Carl Spitz. Her first film appearance was with Shirley Temple in 1934's "Bright Eyes". Terry broke her foot during the filming of "The Wizard of Oz" and almost lost her life when one of the witch's guards stepped on her. - Jon Katz
Jonathan Katz (born 1947) is a U.S. journalist and author. He is known for his contributions to the online magazine HotWired, the technology website Slashdot, the online news magazine Slate.com, and his series of crime novels, books on the geek subculture, and his books on dogs. - Lance Mackey
Lance Mackey (born 1970) is an American dog musher and dog sled racer from Fairbanks, Alaska, who is a three-time winner of the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest and 2007 winner of the Iditarod Sled Dog Race. In 2007, Lance became the first person to win both the Yukon Quest and Iditarod in the same year. This feat was considered almost impossible by many and is considered one of the most impressive feats by a musher. Lance was nominated for a 2007 ESPY Award based on his performance. - Jan Fennell
Jan Fennell, "The dog listener", is an English dog lover and dog trainer who adapted the method developed by Monty Roberts for horses to understanding dogs, based on the insight that dogs behave naturally to their own understanding, not humans'. Fennell's method emphasizes people adjusting their behaviour so that their dog perceives them as "alpha". Jan's dog training method is called Amichien Bonding. - Stanley Coren
Stanley Coren is a psychology professor and researcher who has become best known for a series of books regarding the intelligence of dogs. Through television shows and media coverage that has spanned most of Canada and the United States, he has become popular with dog owners, while continuing research and instruction in psychology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia. - Bryan Smith
Bryan E. Smith (July 16, 1957 - September 21, 2000) was the driver of the vehicle which hit the author Stephen King on June 19, 1999. He was brought before a grand jury and was indicted on two counts: driving to endanger and aggravated assault. He said that he was distracted by his dog, which was loose in the van. He pleaded guilty to driving to endanger, the lesser charge, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment (sentence suspended), … - Tom Long
Tom Long (born 1958) is a Canadian political strategist. Long was president of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party in the late 1980s. He played a key role in writing and implementing party leader Mike Harris' "Common Sense Revolution", and helping the Tories win the 1995 Ontario election that brought them to power. In 2000, Long ran for the leadership of the federal Canadian Alliance party in an attempt to make the new party more attractive to Ontario voters, … - Martin Buser
Martin Buser (b. March 29, 1958 in Winterthur, Switzerland) is a champion of sled dog racing. Martin Buser began mushing at age seventeen in Switzerland. In 1979, Buser moved to Alaska to train and raise sled dogs full time. His training operation, Happy Dogs Kennels, is located in Big Lake, Alaska. He entered his first Iditarod in 1980, and has run every race since 1986, his third Iditarod. In twenty Iditarods, Buser has won the event four times, in 1992, 1994, 1997, … - Arthur Wardle
Arthur Wardle (b.1864, d. 1949) was an English painter. He was one of the most widely known dog painters of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Wardle was prolific; he painted a variety of animal subjects with equal skill but his work is generally divided into two categories: wild animals and dogs, and he is particularly known for his paintings of terriers, although he probably painted every breed of purebred dog that existed during his day. - Susan Butcher
Susan Howlet Butcher was a dog musher who rose to fame when she became the second woman to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in 1986, and went on to become the second four-time winner in 1990, and the first to win four out of five sequential years. - Edwin Henry Landseer
Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, RA (b. March 7, 1802 in London - d. October 1 1873) was an English painter, well known for his paintings of animals - particularly horses, dogs and stags. The best known of Landseer's works, however, are sculptures - the lions in Trafalgar Square, London. At the age of just 13, in 1815, Landseer exhibited works at the Royal Academy. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy at the age of 24, … - Brandon
Brandon (born 1984) was the pet golden retriever on the television series "Punky Brewster." He was named for then-president of NBC, Brandon Tartikoff. Trained by Glen Garner, Brandon was only a puppy when the show began in 1984 and was trained on a week to week basis depending on what the script called for him to do. He learned how to ride a skateboard, open a door, and slide objects around with his front paw, among other things. - Matt Baker
Matthew Baker (born 23 December 1977 in Easington, County Durham) is a British television presenter. Baker has one sister and two step-sisters, and attended Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, graduating with a diploma in acting. During the late nineties Matt worked as a DJ and as part of various disco-dancing groups. Matt was one of the stars of the travelling, … - Melinda Metz
Melinda Metz is an American author of young adult books. Her series "Roswell High", about teenage aliens, is the basis of the WB television series Roswell. Another series, "Fingerprints", is about a psychic girl who reads thoughts from fingerprints. Melinda Metz has also written books for several book series, including "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "The New Adventures of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen", "Ghosts of Fear Street", … - Fred Gipson
Frederick Benjamin Gipson (February 7, 1908-August 14, 1973) was an American author. He is best remembered for creating the fictional dog Old Yeller, featured in a book and 1957 Disney movie of the same name. - Bull Connor
Theophilus Eugene "Bull" Connor (July 11 1897, Selma, Alabama - March 10 1973) was a Democratic police official in the Southern U.S. state of Alabama during the American Civil Rights Movement, a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and a staunch advocate of racial segregation. As the Public Safety Commissioner of Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1960s, Connor became a symbol of the fight against integration for using fire hoses and police attack dogs against unarmed, … - Lotta Engberg
Lotta Engberg is a Swedish dansband and pop singer, born "Anna Charlotte Pedersen" on March 5 1963 in Överkalix, Sweden, grew-up in Laxå, Sweden, is a Swedish dansband and pop singer. She has also been a TV show host. The song Fyra Bugg & en Coca Cola, performed by Lotta Engberg, won Melodifestivalen 1987 and finished 12th at the Eurovision Song Contest 1987. Nowadays (2007), she lives outside Alingsås, Sweden with her husband Patrik, one of her daughters, … - Ainsley Harriott
Ainsley Harriott (born February 28 1957) is a British celebrity chef. His most well-known role is perhaps that of presenting the quick-fire cookery programme "Ready Steady Cook". Harriott was born in Balham in south London. Harriott is married to former costume designer, Clare Fellows. They have two children and a dog called Oscar. Clare is the sister of the creator of "John Shuttleworth" and "Jilted John", Graham Fellows. - Jackie Stallone
Jackie Stallone, (born November 29, 1921 in Washington, D.C.) is an astrologer and celebrity who is the mother of the Hollywood action film star Sylvester Stallone, and of the singer Frank Stallone. - Shemp Howard
Samuel "Shemp Howard" Horwitz (March 17, 1895 - November 22, 1955) was part of the Three Stooges comedy team. He was called "Shemp" because "Sam" came out that way in his mother's thick Jewish Lithuanian accent. He was the older brother of Moe Howard and third stooge in the early years of the act. He would rejoin the trio again in 1946, after youngest brother Curly Howard suffered a stroke. Shemp, along with his brother Moe were born in Bensonhurst and Jerome (Curly), … - Carlos Alazraqui
Carlos Jaime Alazraqui (born July 20, 1962) is an Argentine-American actor, comedian, impressionist and voice actor. - Erik Wemple
Erik Wemple (born August 18, 1964) is the editor of the alternative weekly "Washington City Paper". He was raised in Schenectady, New York and attended Hamilton College in Hamilton, New York, graduating in 1986. In 1986-87 Wemple taught and coached sports at Trinity Pawling School, in Pawling, New York. In the fall of 1987, he moved to Washington, D.C. to pursue graduate studies at Georgetown University. After graduate school, he edited an export industry newsletter. - Mark Derr
Mark Derr is an American author and journalist, noted for his books on dogs, as well as the social and environmental developments of Florida. His articles have appeared in various well-known magazines, such as "The Atlantic Monthly" and "Natural History", in addition to several other periodicals. - Chalky
Chalky was TV chef Rick Stein's rough-haired Jack Russell Terrier dog, who regularly accompanied Stein when filming his popular cookery shows and became recognised and popular in his own right - many of Stein's friends and interviewees claimed he was more famous than the chef himself. The fearless, ferocious yet frequently affectionate terrier was a perfect foil to Stein's phlegmatic demeanor, and added notes of humour (frequently unintentional) to the series. - Doug Swingley
Doug Swingley (born May 14, 1953) is an American dog musher and dog sled racer from Lincoln, Montana, who is a four-time winner of the 1,049-mile Iditarod sled dog race across Alaska. His victory in 1995 marked the first time a non-Alaskan won the race, and he followed it by winning in 1999, 2000, and 2001. He competed in every Iditarod from 1992 to 2002, and during his rookie outing he won the Dorothy G. Page Halfway award, …
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