- Will Smith
Willard Christopher "Will" Smith, Jr. (born September 25, 1968) is a Golden Globe and Academy Award-nominated American actor, and a multiple Grammy Award-winning hip hop artist. He is one of a small group of people who have enjoyed success in three major entertainment media in the United States: feature films, television, and the music industry. "Newsweek" has named him the most powerful actor on the planet. - Inxile Entertainment
InXile Entertainment was formed in late 2002 by Brian Fargo, a founder of Interplay Productions. The company is located in Newport Beach, California. While pitching his idea for a "snarky" version of the classic fantasy role-playing game "The Bard's Tale" at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, Brian commented that he felt as though he was in exile - hence the company's name. - Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (born August 29, 1958), commonly known as MJ as well as the "King of Pop", is an American musician, entertainer, and global icon whose successful career and controversial personal life have been a part of pop culture for almost 40 years. Michael Jackson is widely regarded as one of the greatest entertainers and most popular recording artists in history, displaying complicated physical techniques, … - Steve Jobs
Steven Paul Jobs (born February 24 1955) is the co-founder and CEO of Apple and was the CEO of Pixar until its acquisition by Disney. He is currently the largest Disney shareholder and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries. Jobs' history in business has contributed greatly to the mythos of the quirky, individualistic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, … - James Brown
James Joseph Brown (May 3 1933 – December 25 2006), commonly referred to as "The Godfather of Soul" and "The Hardest Working Man in Show Business," was an American entertainer recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music. He was renowned for his shouting vocals, feverish dancing and unique rhythmic style. As a prolific singer, songwriter, bandleader, and record producer, … - Bob Hope
Bob Hope, KBE (May 29 1903 - July 27 2003), was an English-born American entertainer who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, on radio and television, in movies, and in performing tours for U.S. Military personnel, well known for his good natured humor and career longevity. - Nikki Finke
In 2007, Finke won the Los Angeles Press Club's Southern California Journalism Award for "Entertainment Journalist of the Year" with the judges commenting: "Reading Nikki Finke 's salaciously candid coverage of Hollywood and its inhabitants almost feels like a guilty pleasure. She mixes the news with fearless finger-wagging that's just fun to read no matter the subject. She tackles the industry monoliths without the kiddy gloves and she seems to have command of the beat." - John Kennedy
John Kennedy is a British entertainment lawyer. In 2004, he was elected president of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. He was one of the co-producers of Live Aid and Live8, and former Chairman and CEO to Universal Music (UK) Ltd - Ed Sullivan
Edward Vincent Sullivan (September 28, 1901 - October 13, 1974) was an American entertainment writer and television host, best known as the emcee of a popular TV variety show called "The Ed Sullivan Show" that was at its height of popularity in the 1950s and 1960s. - Diego Luna
Diego Luna (born Diego Luna Alexander on December 29, 1979) is a Mexican actor. Luna was born in Mexico City. His mother, Fiona, died during a car accident when he was only two years old. She had worked in the film industry and had made sure that this was a life Luna would be immersed in. He soon became involved in his father's passion, entertainment - his father is the most acclaimed living theatre, cinema and opera set designer in Mexico. - Uri Geller
Uri Geller is an Israeli-British performer and celebrity famous for his claimed psychic powers. Geller rose to fame after performing a series of televised performances which he said were paranormal demonstrations of psychokinesis, dowsing and telepathy. His performance included bending spoons, describing hidden drawings, and making watches appear to stop or run faster. Geller says he performs these feats through willpower and the strength of his mind. - Michael Cole
Michael Sean Coulthard (born December 8 1968), better known by his stage name of Michael Cole, is the current play-by-play announcer for World Wrestling Entertainment's "Friday Night SmackDown!". - Eugene Mirman
Eugene Boris Mirman is a Russian-born American comedian, writer, and film maker, who is based in New York City. Mirman attended Lexington High School in Lexington, MA, and later Hampshire College in Western Massachusetts. Mirman has appeared on several TV shows, including Late Night With Conan O'Brien, Comedy Central's Premium Blend and Jump Cuts, VH1, Third Watch, Cartoon Network's Home Movies, Cheap Seats, HBO's Flight of the Conchords and more. - Lynn Whitfield
Lynn Whitfield (May 6, 1953 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is an Emmy Award-winning African American actress most famous for portraying African American entertainment pioneer Josephine Baker in 1991. Her other roles include "A Thin Line Between Love and Hate" (1996) and "Eve's Bayou" (1998). Scion of an achievement-oriented Baton Rouge clan with roots in southern black aristocracy, toothsome, … - Glenn Davis
Glenn Davis is best known for his contributions to the music scene in the Northeast, United States. A native of Weston, Massachusetts, he pioneered among other things, the shadowing technique of recording. Brief History: *Became a drummer at age 5 and was allowed to keep drums at school to play for talent shows and during lunch for other student's enjoyment all the way through High School Graduation. - Gerd Leonhard
Gerd Leonhard (‘61) is an acknowledged futurist, visionary, blogger, digerati, writer, speaker and advisor. He has spent over twenty-five years in the technology and entertainment industries, both in the U.S. as well as in Europe, and recently in Asia. Gerd is considered an expert on the dramatic changes that are impacting ‘content’ and media companies as the consequences of the new, disruptive technologies, and of convergence - Mr. Dibbs
Brad Forste, better known as Mr. Dibbs, is a DJ and hip hop producer. The founder of the turntablist collective 1200 Hobos, he has also appeared on numerous underground hip hop records as producer or DJ as well as releasing a number of solo works. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Forste was introduced to DJing around 1985, when he saw Grandmaster Flash performing on the syndicated light news/entertainment show "PM Magazine", … - Geoff Keighley
Geoff Keighley is perhaps the most respected video game journalist working today. His work spans on-line, print and TV outlets, and he has been writing about games since the year 1992. He is most well known as the host of the Spike TV video game show Game Head, which is consistently the highest rated video games show on television. Keighley is also a freelance writer whose work has appeared in Business 2.0, Electronic Gaming Monthly and Entertainment Weekly, among others. Currently,... - Chris Connelly
Chris Connelly is an American sports and entertainment reporter. Connelly joined ESPN in 2001 to host the daily interview program "Unscripted with Chris Connelly", designed to be a more contemporary version of the long-running "Up Close" interview show which previously occupied the 5PM ET timeslot. The show lasted only a few months before being replaced by an early "SportsCenter" and eventually "Around The Horn". - Doug Henning
Doug James Henning (born May 3, 1947 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, died February 7, 2000 of liver disease) was a Canadian magician, illusionist, and escape artist. He is credited with reviving the magic show as a form of mass entertainment in North America, beginning in the 1970s. Henning changed the image of the stage magician when he rejected such stereotypical costume accessories as the tuxedo, top hat, thin moustache, goatee, jazz hands and short hair. - Anthony Mandler
Anthony Mandler is an American music video director. He was raised in Hollywood with celebrity classmates and industry people around him. A USC Film School Graduate, he knew early on what he wanted to do as he realized his passion for photography and film. Starting off as a photographer; Anthony's photos that have featured on the front covers of major magazines such as Entertainment, Esquire and ESPN. - Rollo Carpenter
Rollo Carpenter is the British-born creator of Jabberwacky, a learning Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatterbot that models, in part, the way humans learn. Carpenter has worked as CTO of a business software startup in Silicon Valley, but returned to the UK to work at Icogno. As Managing Director of Icogno Ltd, Carpenter is developing AI for entertainment, companionship and communication. His AI entries George and Joan were #1 for Loebner Prize (2005) and (2006). - Sarah Lane
Sarah Lane (born October 12, 1976 in Santa Cruz, California) is an American television personality. She grew up in Sebastopol, California, and later attended San Francisco State University where she received a bachelor's degree in Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts. She was the senior segment producer and on-air talent for the nightly G4 variety show "Attack of the Show!" (formerly "The Screen Savers"), … - Kristin Holt
Kristin Holt (born August 17, 1981 in Plano, TX) is a television personality and entertainment news correspondent. She is most noted as the current host of G4's "Cheat!", a television show dedicated to video game cheats and strategies; she also substitutes hosting roles for the network's other shows. On GSN, she is currently hosting poker night. Holt is a Texas Christian University graduate. - Suzanne de Passe
Suzanne de Passe (born in 1948 in New York City, New York) is an American entertainment executive; the CEO of television production company de Passe Entertainment; and the first (and so far, only) African-American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for writing. De Passe first became notable as an executive for Motown Records, a company which she joined in 1968 after being introduced to Motown chief Berry Gordy by Supremes member Cindy Birdsong. - Frank Wells
Frank Wells (March 4, 1932 - April 3, 1994), was an American entertainment businessman. Previously, Wells had worked for Warner Brothers as its Vice President of West Coast in 1969, then in 1973 as President, and in 1977 as Vice Chairman until he left the company in 1982. Disney shareholders Roy E. Disney and Stanley Gold recruited Wells to become Disney's President and Chief Operating Officer (1984-1994), along with Michael Eisner as Chairman and CEO, … - A. J. Hammer
A. J. Hammer (born Andrew Goldberg on October 31, 1966) is a television and radio personality who, as of 2007, hosts CNN Headline News evening show, "Showbiz Tonight". From 2001 to 2005, Hammer hosted Court TV's "Hollywood Heat", a program focusing on crime and justice in the entertainment business. He also hosted several programs on Sirius Satellite Radio. - Courtney Friel
Courtney Friel (born April 22, 1980) is an American entertainment reporter for the Fox News Channel. Currently, she contributes to a number of different entertainment related programs for the network's website, FoxNews.com. She was hired by the network on February 16, 2007, making her first appearance on February 17, 2007 as a panelist to discuss Anna Nicole Smith on Hannity & Colmes. Friel is also known for hosting the World Poker Tour on the Travel Channel. - Leroy van Dyke
Leroy Van Dyke is billed as “The World’s Most Famous Auctioneer”. Leroy was catapulted into country music recording fame in 1956 by his own composition “Auctioneer,” which has to date sold an estimated three million records. He wrote the song about the life of his cousin, National Auctioneers Association Hall of Famer Ray Sims, also a Missourian. - Moses Chan
Moses Chan (b. April 16 1971) is an actor from Hong Kong. Having started his career working mostly on films, Chan has gained remarkable success in recent years while concentrating on his TV acting career with Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB). His career has especially been boosted by his role in "War and Beauty", which was arguably one of the most successful TV dramas TVB has ever produced. - Andrew Odlyzko
Andrew Odlyzko is a mathematician who is the head of the University of Minnesota's Digital Technology Center. In the field of mathematics he has published extensively on analytic number theory, computational number theory, cryptography, algorithms and computational complexity, combinatorics, probability, and error-correcting codes. In the early 1970s, he was a co-author of one of the founding papers of the modern umbral calculus. - Fredrik Virtanen
Karl Fredrik Virtanen is a Swedish journalist for the Swedish newspaper "Aftonbladet" and the host for the talk show "Studio Virtanen" on Swedish TV8. For "Aftonbladet", he has been the New York correspondent, contributing with weekly columns about the life in the Big Apple, as well as an entertainment journalist, writing about e.g. Eurovision Song Contest. He has also done some gigs as a DJ in different clubs in Stockholm. - Anwar Maqsood
Anwar Maqsood Hameedi commonly known as Anwar Maqsood (Urdu: انور مقصود) or Anwer Maqsood is one of Pakistan's most famous celebrities with over 35 years in the entertainment industry. He is an intellectual, playwright, poet, television host, satirist, humorist, infrequent actor and long time painter. Anwar Maqsood is a versatile Artist of PTV and has now become a household name. - Keith Windschuttle
Keith Windschuttle (born 1942) is an Australian writer who is the author of several books, including "Unemployment" (1979) which analyses the economic causes and social consequences of unemployment in Australia and advocates a socialist response, "The Media: a New Analysis of the Press, Television, Radio and Advertising in Australia" (1984) on the political economy and content of the news and entertainment media, "The Killing of History", (1994), … - David Burrows
David Burrows is a producer, director and writer for both film and television. Some of his projects from his late-start career include: "Grin & Barrett" – a weekly entertainment reality based television show focusing on style, fashion, cuisine and travel (with a twist of humor) hosted by Texas socialite Angie Barrett. - Mini Mathur
Mini Mathur is best known an MTV VJ. An MBA from Institute of Management Technology Ghaziabad, she worked with Hindustan Thompson Associates for two years before she started as VJ with MTV. She has much to her credit. For starters, she hosts Bombay Blush — a wacky culture show on India, which airs on BBC in England. She has also hosted shows like Big Picture, MTV 123, MTV Gaana Masti, a spoof on film songs and international videos, and many more. - Barry Axelrod
Barry Axelrod is a sports agent from the United States. Axelrod, a graduate of UCLA Law School, is an attorney that specializes in sports, entertainment and business law. Axelrod has continually been active in many sports associations and fund raisers. Barry has served on the US Anti-Doping Committee; dealing with several issues surrounding drugs and sports. Axelrod has a large client list that includes: Jake Peavy, Jeff Bagwell, Craig Biggio, Matt Morris, Matt Clement, … - Ronnie Carroll
Ronnie Carroll (born Ronald Cleghorn, 18 August 1934, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a British singer and entertainer. - Tom Silverman
Tom Silverman is the founder and president of the influential record label Tommy Boy Records, and Co-founder of the independent film and television company, Tommy Boy Films, with American entrepreneur Mic Neumann and his company Dubtitled "Entertainment" - Don Ohlmeyer
Don Ohlmeyer (born Donald Winfred Ohlemeyer, Jr., February 3, 1945, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American television producer and former president of the NBC network's West Coast division. He grew up in the Chicago-area and attended Glenbrook North High School. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1967, with a B.A. in communications. He received the Lifetime Achievement in Sports Broadcasting from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 2007.
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