- Jean Charles de Menezes
Jean Charles de Menezes (7 January 1978-22 July 2005) was a Brazilian illegal immigrant living in the Tulse Hill area of south London. De Menezes was shot and killed at Stockwell tube station on the London Underground by unnamed Metropolitan Police officers. Initially, police claimed incorrectly that he was wearing bulky clothing and that he had vaulted the ticket barriers running from police. The government also confirmed that he was staying in the UK illegally. - Nitty Gritty
Glen Augustus Holness, otherwise known by his stage name Nitty Gritty, was a popular Reggae singer. Born in 1957 in the August Town section of Kingston, Jamaica, he was the second of eleven children born to religious parents. Before joining up with King Jammy in 1985, he worked with Joe Gibbs, started a group called The Soulites, and was training to be an electrician. The first hit he recorded with King Jammy was "Hog Inna Minty", a Jamaican folk song. - Generosa Ammon
Generosa Rand (March 22, 1956 in Laguna Beach, California - August 22, 2003 in New York City) was the widow of murdered New York businessman and multimillionaire Ted Ammon. She graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 1981, and moved to New York to be an artist. She met Ted Ammon when she called him after he failed to keep an appointment for an apartment she was to show him; they married in 1986 and adopted a twin boy and girl from the Ukraine, … - Jack Wall
Jack Wall is an Irish Labour Party politician. He is currently a Teachta Dála (TD) for Kildare South and the Labour Party Spokesperson for Arts, Sport & Tourism. Wall was born in Castledermot, County Kildare and educated at Castledermot National School and Castledermot Vocational School. He worked as an electrician before entering into politics in 1991 when he was elected to Athy Urban District Council. In 1993 Wall was nominated to Seanad Éireann. - George Armstrong
George "Geordie" Armstrong (August 9, 1944 - November 1, 2000) was an English football player and coach, primarily associated with Arsenal. Born in Hebburn, County Durham, Armstrong had trained as an electrician while playing in youth football, before joining Arsenal as a youth player in August 1961. Initially he had been a forward but was soon switched to the wing. He made his debut not long after joining the club; while still only 17, … - John Cummings
John Scott Cummings (born July 6, 1943) is a British politician. He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Easington. John Cummings was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, a fifth generation coal miner, he was educated at the Murton County Infant, Junior and Secondary schools. He attended both the Easington Technical College and the Durham Technical College. He began his career with the National Coal Board as a miner in 1958, … - Terrence Malick
Terrence Malick is a wonderful director whose work is sumptuous and engrossing. With Badlands and Days of Heaven , both of which I haven't seen in a preposterously long time, Malick's lingering tones and rich meticulous shots are fully on display. In his career, which has spanned decades, the gifted American film director has only made four feature length films and one short. - Fleeming Jenkin
Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin (March 25 1833 - June 12 1885) was Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, remarkable for his versatility. Known to the world as the inventor of telpherage, he was an electrician and cable engineer, a lecturer, linguist, critic, actor, dramatist and artist. His descendants include the Tory MPs Patrick Jenkin and Bernard Jenkin. - Vic Damone
Vic Damone (born June 12, 1928 in Brooklyn, New York) is an Italian American singer. He was born Vito Rocco Farinola. - Han Dongfang
Han Dongfang is the son of a peasant and, before the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, worked as a railroad electrician. Han Dongfang is known primarily for his activities during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 after which he became a human rights activist. In 1989 Han Dongfang was the convener of the Beijing Autonomous Workers Federation, the first independent labor organization in mainland China in 50 years. - Gwen Verdon
Gwyneth Evelyn Verdon (January 13, 1925 - October 18, 2000) was an acclaimed Tony Award-winning American dancer and actress, known professionally as Gwen Verdon. - Peter Manfredo
Peter Manfredo Jr. (born November 26, 1980, Pawtucket, Rhode Island) is a professional boxer. He held the WBO and NABA Light Middleweight Titles and is a fully qualified electrician. Although he regularly wears the Italian flag on his trunks to show his heritage, he is a representative of the US. In 2005, he entered reality tv show The Contender, and was placed on the East Coast Team. He was challenged to fight Alfonso Gomez in the first fight, … - Kurt Beck
Kurt Beck (born February 5, 1949) is a German politician and since 1994 the prime minister of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz), serving as President of the Bundesrat in 2000/01. He was officially elected as chairman of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) on May 14 2006 with the approval of 95 % of the delegates. He succeeded Matthias Platzeck who resigned on April 10, 2006 due to medical reasons - Harry Duynhoven
Harry James Duynhoven is a New Zealand politician. He is a member of the Labour Party. Duynhoven was born in New Plymouth. He left school at age sixteen to become an electrician, and eventually became technical teacher at the collegiate and polytechnic level. Duynhoven entered Parliament in the 1987 elections, winning the New Plymouth seat from incumbent National Party MP Tony Friedlander. In the 1990 elections, he lost the seat to National's John Armstrong, … - Robert Ewing
Robert W. Ewing, I (September 27, 1859 - April 27, 1931), was a prominent newspaper journalist, editor, and publisher and political figure, primarily in Louisiana, in the last two decades of the 19th century and the first third of the 20th century. Ewing was born in Mobile, Alabama, to James Lindsay Ewing, a cotton merchant, and the former Martha Hunter. At the age of thirteen, he was a messenger for the Western Union Telegraph Company. - Jules Labarthe
Jules Labarthe is a cinematographer, film producer and photographer. He studied film at New York University. He met director Jamie Babbit in a coffee shop in Los Angeles and as a result of this meeting was the cinematographer on her 1996 short film "Frog Crossing". He has collaborated with Babbit on several other projects including her 1999 feature film "But I'm a Cheerleader". - Frankie Miller
Frank John 'Frankie' Miller (born 2 November 1949, in Bridgeton, Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish rock singer/songwriter, who had moderate success in the 1970s with a gritty voice similar to Rod Stewart or Joe Cocker. Bob Seger has remarked on the influence Van Morrison had on Miller, in an article published in 1978, in "Rolling Stone" magazine. - Matthew Libatique
Matthew Libatique is an American cinematographer known for his work on such films as "Pi", "Requiem for a Dream", and "The Fountain". Additionally, he has worked on "Josie & the Pussycats", "Phonebooth", "Gothika", "She Hate Me", "Abandon", "Inside Man", and a slew of other films and music videos. - Jennifer Sullivan
Jennifer Sullivan (1945-), often credited as Jenny Sullivan, is a Welsh children's author and former literary critic. Sullivan was born in Cardiff in 1945 to Londoner Frederick Anderson (1900-1993), a former physical instructor in the Royal Navy and electrician and Phyllis (born 1905 and still living) a short story writer. Working chiefly as a book critic for much of her life, she has written a number of popular books, mostly suitable for 7-12 year olds, … - William Stanley Jr.
William Stanley, Jr. (November 28, 1858-May 14, 1916) was an American physicist born in Brooklyn, New York. In his career, he obtained 129 patents covering a variety of electric devices. Stanley was as an electrician working with telegraph keys and fire alarms of an early manufacturer. In New York, Stanley designed one of the first electrical installations (at a Fifth Avenue store). - Eric Donaldson
Eric Donaldson is a Jamaican reggae singer/songwriter. Donaldson has won the Jamaican Festival Song Competition five times, in 1971, 1977, 1978, 1984 and 1993. His winning 1971 entry, "Cherry Oh Baby", launched him into the limelight, although he had been composing and recording since 1964. "Cherry Oh Baby" has been covered by both The Rolling Stones and UB40. The riddim has remained extremely popular – over thirty cover versions have been recorded, … - Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky
Mikhail Osipovich Dolivo-Dobrovolsky (in Gatchina near Saint Petersburg - in Heidelberg, Germany), was a Russian engineer, electrician, and inventor. Born in Polish noble family originating form Mazowsze. Emigrated to Germany due to political persecution after the assassination of Alexander II of Russia (1881). He studied at the Darmstadt University of Technology (TH Darmstadt) in Germany. From 1887 he worked for AEG. One of the founders of three-phase systems. - William Colvig
William (Bill) Colvig (1917-2000) was an electrician and amateur musician who was the partner for 33 years of composer Lou Harrison, whom he met in San Francisco, California in 1967. Colvig helped construct the so-called "American gamelan" used in works such as the puppet opera "Young Caeser" [sic] (1971), "La Koro Sutro" (1972), and the "Suite for Violin and American Gamelan" (1974). - Dean Butler
Dean Butler OAM (born January 26, 1977 in Warwick, Queensland) is a field hockey defender from Australia, who was a member of the team that won the golden medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He is nicknamed "Butts", and played club hockey for the Queensland Blades in his native country, with whom he won the national title in 2003. - Lewis Hyde
Lewis Hyde , a MacArthur fellow, is a writer, editor, translator, and poet. His numerous books include "The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property, "an investigation into art and the economies of gift exchange, and "Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art," which explores the "trickster" character who appears in the traditions and myths of many cultures. Recently, he edited "The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau ," and is currently researching "the cultural commons." - Glen Jenvey
Glen Jenvey began studying radical Islamic groups when he was in college. His first job as a spy, was for the United States authorities to spy in Iran. He was hired by the Sri Lankan National Intelligence Bureau in London to spy on the Tamil Tigers' offices and demonstrations in London. Over the years, Jenvey has worked for the intelligence services of several other countries, including Sri Lanka and India with close links to Russia and USA. - Frederick Newton Gisborne
Frederick N. Gisborne was a Canadian inventor and electrician, born in Broughton, Preston, Lancashire, England. In 1842 he left England for a trip around the world, finally settling in Canada in 1845. By close study he became an expert electrician, and original improvements in methods and instruments soon attracted so much attention that he was appointed superintendent of the lines of the Nova Scotia government at Halifax. - Jeff Delaney
Jeff Delaney is a Modern Arnis practitioner. He was one of the original Masters of Tapi-Tapi created by the art's founder, Remy Presas, shortly before his death. Divisions among the Masters of Tapi-Tapi led him to form his own version of the International Modern Arnis Federation (IMAF), of which he is now the chair and that group's grandmaster. (The other version of the IMAF is headed by Randi Schea.) He holds a number of seminars and camps every year. - Erik Stolhanske
Erik Stolhanske, (born August 23 1968 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA) is one of the members of the Broken Lizard comedy group. He graduated from Breck School then Colgate University, where he was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. - Warren Burt
Warren Burt (born 10 October 1949 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an Australia-based composer of American birth. He is known for composing in a wide variety of new music styles, ranging from acoustic music, electroacoustic music, sound art installations, and text-based music. Burt often employs elements of improvisation, microtonality, humour, live interaction, and lo-fi electronic techniques into his music. Warren Burt attended the State University of New York, Albany (BA, … - Peter Christensen
Peter Christensen (born April 25 1975) is a Danish politician representing the Liberal Party "Venstre". He is an electrician by profession and has been a Member of Parliament since November 20 2001. He is currently the spokesman of finances for "Venstre", and served as Chairman of Venstres Ungdom 1999-2001. - Alex Goldfarb
Alex Goldfarb (born 1 June 1947) is an Israeli politician and electrician. Goldfarb immigrated to Israel from his native Romania in 1963. He worked as an electrician, amongst others in the Israel Electricity Company, where he was also active in the union. In 1992 he was elected to the thirteenth Knesset, on the Tzomet list, after the party had won eight seats. - Anton Schmid
Anton Schmid was a German soldier who, during World War II in Vilnius, Lithuania, was executed by his superiors for helping 250 Jewish men, women, and children escape from extermination by the Nazi SS during the European Jewish Holocaust. He did this by hiding them, supplying them with false ID papers and helping them escape. Anton Schmid was an electrician who owned a small radio shop in Vienna. Drafted into the German army after the Anschluss of 1938, … - Bert Stiles
Bert Stiles (August 30, 1920 - November 26, 1944) was an American author of short stories who was killed in action during World War II. - Aviezri Fraenkel
Aviezri Siegmund Fraenkel is an Israeli Mathematician, who has made notable contributions to combinatorial game theory. He was a recipient of the 2005 Euler Medal together with Ralph Faudree. - Michael Szameit
Michael Szameit is a German science fiction writer. Born 1950 in Priessen, in East Germany, he became an electrician before beginning to study physics, which he had to abandon for health reasons. Later he worked as a sound technician, eventually becoming head of a recording studio for radio and television. From 1981 to 1984 he worked in the editorial office of the Neues Leben publishing house. In 1984 he became a freelance writer. - Tony Oberstar
Born October 14, 1987 in Minneapolis, Minnesota to the parents of John & Irene. Is a videographer that produces his own movies. Created Board Fairy Productions with best friend Adam Stanzak and Reade Gosen. After leaving the small town of Chanhassen (small town outside of Minneapolis) he resides in Los Angeles while going to school and working. Tony Attended Minnetonka Public School his entire life. After Graduating from Minnetonka High School in 2006, he began taking courses at Santa... - Frank J. Selke
Francis Joseph Aloysius Selke (May 7, 1893 - July 3, 1985) was a Canadian hockey manager in the National Hockey League. - Wally K. Daly
Wally K. Daly (born c. 1941) is an English writer for television and radio and one time chairman of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. As well as some minor acting roles include "Z Cars", his writing credits include "Juliet Bravo", "Casualty" and "Byker Grove". - Hatun Sürücü
Hatun Aynur Sürücü was a Kurdish woman whose family was originally from Erzurum, Turkey. She was murdered at the age of 23 in Berlin, by her own youngest brother, in a so-called honor killing. Sürücü had divorced the cousin she was forced to marry at the age of 16, and was reportedly dating a German man. Her murder inflamed a public debate over forced marriage in Muslim families.
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