- Wernher von Braun
Dr. Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (March 23 1912 - June 16 1977) was one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Germany and the United States. The German scientist, who led Germany's rocket development program (V-2) before and during World War II, entered the United States at the end of the war through the then-secret Operation Paperclip.
- Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 - August 16, 1977), was an American singer, musician and actor. He is often known simply as Elvis; also "The King of Rock 'n' Roll", or simply "The King". Presley began his career as one of the first performers of rockabilly, an uptempo fusion of country and rhythm and blues with a strong back beat. His novel versions of existing songs, mixing 'black' and 'white' sounds, …
- 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., …
- Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (sometimes erroneously pronounced [ˈvɪnsənt væn ˈɡɒf] in British English and [ˈvɪnsənt væn ˈɡoʊ] in US English; the correct Dutch pronunciation is) (30 March 1853 - 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist. His paintings and drawings include some of the world's best known, most popular and most expensive pieces. Van Gogh spent his early life working for a firm of art dealers.
- William Cadogan
William Cadogan (1711-1797) was a 18th century British physician and writer on childcare and nursing. In the 1740s Cadogan became a honorary medical attendant of the London Foundling Hospital for abandoned babies. By 1748 Cadogan was a prominent London physician famous for his studies of gout.
- Richard Gere
Richard Tiffany Gere (born August 31, 1949) is an American actor. He first became famous during the 1980s, after appearing in several successful Hollywood films, including "An Officer and a Gentleman", and has since retained his status as a leading man. During the 1990s and 2000s, he starred in several well-received films, "Pretty Woman", "Primal Fear", and "Chicago" for which he won a Golden Globe award as Best Actor.
- Tara Reid
Tara Reid (born November 8, 1975) is an American actress. She is known for her roles in the films "American Pie" (1999), "American Pie 2" (2001), "National Lampoon's Van Wilder" (2002), "The Big Lebowski" (1998), and "My Boss's Daughter" (2003).
- Naomi Watts
Naomi Ellen Watts (born September 28, 1968) is a British actress known for her roles in "Mulholland Dr.", the film remakes of "The Ring" and "King Kong", as well as her Academy Award-nominated role in the film "21 Grams".
- Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins (born March 26, 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and popular science writer who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. Dawkins first came to prominence with his 1976 book "The Selfish Gene", which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme into the lexicon, helping found memetics.
- Graham Chapman
Graham Chapman (January 8, 1941 - October 4, 1989) was an English comedian, actor, writer, physician and one of the six members of the Monty Python comedy troupe. He was also the lead actor in their two narrative films, playing King Arthur in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and the title character in "Monty Python's Life of Brian".
- Vivica A. Fox
Vivica Anjanetta Fox (born July 30, 1964 in South Bend, Indiana) is a film and television actress. After graduating from Golden West College with an Associate Art degree in Social Sciences, Fox moved to California to become an actress, first on soap operas such as "Generations", "Days of Our Lives" and "The Young and the Restless". One of her earliest roles saw her as Patti LaBelle's fashion designer daughter, Charisse Chamberlain, …
- Tahir-Ul-Qadri
- Hugh Laurie
James Hugh Calum Laurie, OBE (born 11 June 1959) is an English actor, comedian and writer known as Hugh Laurie. He is known in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and parts of Europe for his roles in "Blackadder" and for his long-running comedy collaboration with Stephen Fry, which has included "A Bit of Fry and Laurie" and "Jeeves and Wooster" (see Fry and Laurie for more detail).
- Jane Seymour
Jane Seymour OBE (born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg on February 15 1951) is an English actress probably best known today as the co-star of the James Bond film "Live and Let Die" and star of the TV series and film "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman".
- Patrick Dempsey
Patrick Galen Dempsey (born January 13, 1966) is an American actor who first became prominent in Hollywood during the late 1980s. He is also known for his role as neurosurgeon Dr. Derek Shepherd (Dr. McDreamy) on the medical drama "Grey's Anatomy". During the 2000s, he also appeared in several film roles, including "The Emperor's Club" and "Freedom Writers".
- Ellen Pompeo
Ellen Pompeo (born November 10, 1969) is a Screen Actors Guild award winning American actress, best known for playing the title role of Meredith Grey on the ABC medical drama "Grey's Anatomy".
- Laura Schlessinger
Laura Catherine Schlessinger (born January 16, 1947) is an American cultural and conservative commentator, most known as host of the popular "Dr. Laura" radio advice call-in show. The show is nationally syndicated and runs three hours a day on weekdays. Schlessinger is an outspoken critic of practices that she feels have become too prevalent in contemporary American culture.
- Matthew Fox
Matthew Fox (born July 14, 1966) is an actor and former model. His first major role was playing the older brother and patriarch Charlie Salinger on "Party of Five" in the 1990s, co-starring with both Scott Wolf and Neve Campbell. He gained much greater fame for his current starring role as Dr. Jack Shephard on the hit ABC drama series "Lost".
- Howie Mandel
Howie Michael Mandel II (born November 29, 1955) is a Canadian comedian and actor, primarily for his roles on sitcoms and television. He is best known as Ed Flanders's young intern, Dr. Wayne Fiscus on "St. Elsewhere", and is currently the host of the US game show "Deal or No Deal", airing on NBC, and the Canadian version, "Deal or No Deal Canada", airing on Global.
- Julie Bowen
Julie Bowen (born March 3, 1970) is an American film and television actress.
- Peter MacNicol
Peter MacNicol (born April 10, 1954 in Dallas, Texas) is an Emmy Award winning American actor. MacNicol was raised in Texas as the youngest of five children. MacNicol began his career studying at the University of Minnesota. While there, he performed in two seasons at the Guthrie Theater. A New York talent agent spotted him and told him to make a move to Manhattan. Shortly thereafter, he was cast in the off-Broadway play, "Crimes of the Heart".
- Jennifer Morrison
Jennifer Marie Morrison (born April 12, 1979 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress, model and film producer. She is best known for her role as Dr. Allison Cameron on the Fox drama, House, M.D.
- Manmohan Singh
Dr. Manmohan Singh is the 17<sup>th</sup> and current Prime Minister of India. Dr. Singh is a member of the Indian National Congress party and became the first Sikh to become Prime Minister of India on May 22, 2004. He is arguably the most educated Indian Prime Minister in history. He is considered one of the most qualified and influential figures in India's recent history, …
- Justin Chambers
Justin Chambers (born July 11, 1970) is an American actor and former Calvin Klein male fashion model. As of 2005, he is starring in the ABC drama series "Grey's Anatomy" as Dr. Alex Karev.
- Robert Redford
Robert Redford (born Charles Robert Redford, Jr. on August 18 1936), is a American motion picture actor, director, producer, businessman, model, environmentalist, and philanthropist. One of Hollywood's biggest superstars, Redford's appeal has lasted several decades.
- C. Achutha Menon
Chelat Achutha Menon (January, 1913 - 16 August 1991) was a senior leader of the Communist Party of India (CPI). He was the chief minister of Kerala state from 1969-11-01 to 1970-08-01 and 1970-10-04 to 1977-03-25. He was popularly called as Achuthamenon. Academically brilliant he stood first in the State in the Secondary school examination.
- Bill Wattenburg
Willard Harvey Wattenburg (born February 9, 1936), better known as "Dr. Bill Wattenburg", is an inventor, scientist, author, and radio talk show host residing in the Sierra Nevada of California. Advertisements for his show often refer to him as "the smartest man on the Earth."
- Sandra Oh
Sandra Oh (born July 20, 1971) is a Golden Globe Award-winning and a two-time Emmy Award-nominated Canadian actress. She is known to American audiences for her role as Dr. Cristina Yang in the ABC series "Grey's Anatomy" and her roles in the feature films, "Under the Tuscan Sun" and "Sideways". In 2005, Oh made "People" magazine's list of the 50 Most Beautiful People. Oh has also won the Screen Actors Guild's award and Genie Award twice each.
- Josef Ackermann
Dr. Josef Ackermann (born February 7, 1948) is a Swiss banker. He has been Board Member of Deutsche Bank since 1996 and its CEO and Chairman of the Executive Committee since 2002. Ackermann is a graduate of the University of St. Gallen (HSG). He was born in Mels, Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Josef Ackermann modernized Deutsche Bank by focusing on shareholders.
- John Kenneth Muir
John Kenneth Muir, born December 3 1969, is the author of twenty-one reference books in the fields of film and television, with a particular accent on the horror and science fiction genres. He has written a book about Kevin Smith, entitled "An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith" (Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, 2002), a study of Sam Raimi entitled "The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi" (Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, …
- David Lynch
David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American filmmaker, painter, video artist, and performance artist. Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations, for his direction of "The Elephant Man" (1980), "Blue Velvet" (1986), and "Mulholland Drive" (2001). He has won awards at the Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival.
- Kate Walsh
Kathleen Erin "Kate" Walsh (born October 13 1967) is an American film and television actress, currently known for her role as Dr. Addison Montgomery (former wife of "Dr. McDreamy"), on the hit ABC series "Grey's Anatomy".
- Gary Oldman
Leonard Gary Oldman is an Emmy Award-nominated, Saturn and BAFTA Award-winning English actor, writer and director. He initially came to prominance in the 1986 film "Sid & Nancy", in which he played the ill-fated rocker Sid Vicious. He later starred in films such as "Dracula", "Léon", "The Fifth Element" and "Hannibal". Generally regarded as one of the world's most versatile actors, …
- Michael Shanks
Michael Garrett Shanks (born December 15 1970 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian actor who achieved fame for his role as Dr. Daniel Jackson on the science fiction television series "Stargate SG-1". He also provided the voice of the recurring character Thor on the same series.
- Harry Shearer
Harry Julius Shearer (born December 23, 1943) is an American comedic actor and writer.
- Edgar Mitchell
Edgar Dean Mitchell, Sc.D. (born September 17, 1930) was the sixth man to walk on the Moon. He did this with Alan Shepard as part of the Apollo 14 mission on February 9 1971. The mission was NASA's third manned Moon landing. Mitchell was active in the Boy Scouts of America where he achieved its second highest rank, Life Scout. He obtained a Doctor of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT. He also has two Bachelor of Science degrees, …
- Sarah Chalke
Sarah Cassandra Chalke (born August 27, 1976 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian television and movie actress best known for portraying Dr. Elliot Reid on the NBC sitcom "Scrubs" and also for portraying the second Becky Conner-Healy on ABC's "Roseanne".
- T. R. Knight
Theodore Raymond “T.R.” Knight is an American actor. Knight's most high-profile role to date is his current role as Dr. George O'Malley on ABC's top-rated drama "Grey's Anatomy".
- Abdus Salam
Abdus Salam (January 29, 1926 at Santokdas, Sahiwal in Punjab - November 21, 1996 in Oxford, England) was a Pakistani theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979 for his work in Electro-Weak Theory which is the mathematical and conceptual synthesis of the Electromagnetic and Weak interactions, the latest stage in the effort to provide a unified description of the four fundamental forces of nature.
- Shaun White
Shaun Roger White (born September 3, 1986 in San Diego, California) is an American professional snowboarder and skateboarder based in Carlsbad, California. White has accumulated an accomplished competition record in both sports and has appeared in a number of media programs and video games. He has been a notable competitor in the extreme-sports community since he was about twelve years old. White stands 5' 8.5" (1.73 m) tall.