- John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones (July 6, 1747-July 18, 1792) was America's first well-known naval hero in the American Revolutionary War. John Paul Jones was born John Paul in 1747, on the estate of Arbigland in the Stewarty of Kirkcudbright on the southern coast of Scotland. John Paul's father was a gardener at Arbigland, and his mother was a member of Clan MacDuff. - Stanley Ho
Stanley Ho, GBS (born November 25, 1921), also known as Ho Hung-sun, Stanley Ho Hung-sun, is an entrepreneur in Hong Kong and Macau. Ho is sometimes nicknamed "The King of Gambling", reflecting the government-granted monopoly he held of the Macau gambling industry for over 35 years. Ho is the wealthiest person in Macau, and one of the wealthiest in Asia. - Hans Rausing
Hans Rausing KBE (born in 1926), a British based Swedish born businessman, is among the world's wealthiest people with a reported net worth, in 2007, of 5.4 billion UK pounds (approx. 11 billion US dollars). He made his wealth from his co-inheritance of Tetra Pak (later Tetra Laval), a company founded by his father Ruben Rausing that is currently the largest packing production company in the world. - Debra Marshall
Debra Gale Marshall (born March 2, 1960 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama) is an American real estate agent and former professional wrestling manager and WWE Diva. She is best known by her ring name, Debra. She is perhaps best known for her appearances with World Wrestling Entertainment between 1998 and 2002. Before becoming involved in wrestling, Debra was a beauty pageant participant, winning the runner-up for Miss Texas USA in 1984. - Yoshua Daely
Green Property and Resort Management. Has 30 years experience in Hospitality Industry, previously working with various hotels and resorts. Involved with The HITA properties. It is a luxury traditional home concept that will feature all exclusive private villas in a design that respects the surrounding environment, offer an enriching lifestyle experience that is based on local art, culture and community spirit. - Richard Hatch
Richard Hatch (born April 8, 1961) is the winner of the first American "Survivor" series, which aired in 2000 and was set in Borneo. He is currently incarcerated for tax evasion. Prior to his "Survivor" appearance, Hatch was a corporate trainer from Newport, Rhode Island. He spent five years in the US Army, is a licensed real estate agent, and has also worked as a car salesman and a bartender. - Ann Marie Doory
Delegate Ann Marie L. Doory, is an American politician who represents the 43rd legislative district of the Maryland General Assembly in Annapolis Maryland - L. E. Modesitt Jr.
L. E. (Leland Exton) Modesitt, Jr. (b. 1943 in Denver, Colorado) is an author of science fiction and fantasy novels. He is best known for the fantasy series "The Saga of Recluce". He graduated from Williams College in Massachusetts, lived in Washington, D.C. for 20 years, then moved to New Hampshire in 1989 where he met his wife. They relocated to Cedar City, Utah in 1993. He has worked as a Navy pilot, lifeguard, delivery boy, unpaid radio disc jockey, … - Kendra Todd
Kendra Todd (born 1978) was hired by Donald Trump on national television at the conclusion of Season 3 of NBC's "The Apprentice" live at New York University on May 19, 2005. She was the first female candidate, and the youngest, to be hired on the US "Apprentice". - Jim Bedard
James Arthur Bedard (born November 14, 1956 in Niagara Falls, Ontario is a retired Canadian ice hockey goaltender. Originally drafted in 1976 by the Washington Capitals, Bedard played for parts of two seasons with the Capitals. After playing two seasons in the minor leagues, Bedard signed to play in the Finnish Elite League, where he would play for 14 seasons before finally retiring in 1994. Since his retirement, he has been a goaltending consultant, … - Rick Florian
Rick Florian (born April 10, 1962 in South Bend, Indiana) is a musician, songwriter and producer, most known for being the lead singer of Contemporary Christian Music rock band Whiteheart since 1986. He currently lives in Franklin, Tennessee with his wife, Lisa, one of his three sons and his daughter, and works as a real estate agent. Rick still dons his voice to several music projects over the year. - Deborah Kara Unger
Deborah Kara Unger (born May 12, 1964 or 1963 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian actress. Before becoming an actress, she studied economics and philosophy at University of British Columbia. She later became the first Canadian to be accepted into Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art. Her mother is a real estate agent and father is a gynaecologist. When Unger is not working, she resides in either Vancouver or Los Angeles, California, USA. - 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). - Gideon Levy
Gideon Levy is an Israeli journalist for Ha'aretz, a member of its editorial board and former spokesman for Shimon Peres A recurring theme of his articles is what he calls the "moral blindness" of the Israeli society to the effects of its acts of war and occupation, an attitude which he attributes to the systematic dehumanization of Israel's neighbours. - Richard Hilton
Richard Howard Hilton (born August 17 1955) is an American heir of the Hilton Hotel chain, a real estate broker and developer specializing in exclusive, high-end property, Chairman of Hilton & Hyland Real Estate, and father of Paris Hilton, Nicky Hilton, Barron Hilton II, and Conrad Hilton III. - Lee Shau Kee
Lee Shau Kee (born January 29, 1928 in Shunde, Guangdong) is a property developer and majority owner of Henderson Land Development (HKSE:0012), a property conglomerate with interests in properties, hotels, town gas and internet services. He is currently the second wealthiest person in Hong Kong and Greater China Region, just after Li Ka Shing. According to Forbes' list of billionaires as of 2007, Lee's wealth is estimated to be $17 billion, … - Kevin Trudeau
Kevin Mark Trudeau (born February 6 1963) is an American author, pool player, salesman and alternative medicine advocate. He is known for a number of television infomercials selling his products, and for several books, including the controversial "Natural Cures "They" Don't Want You To Know About". Trudeau has had numerous interactions with the U.S. judicial system, including multiple fines and a larceny conviction., … - Jaason Simmons
Jaason Simmons (b. July 12 1970, Hobart, Tasmania) is an Australian actor, best known for the role of 'Logan Fowler' on the TV series "Baywatch". Jaason started to experiment with independent movies taking on controversial roles, including indie director Gregg Araki's film "Nowhere", which starred Christina Applegate and Heather Graham. - Yvette Mimieux
Yvette Carmen Mimieux (born January 8, 1942 in Los Angeles, California) is an actress with a French father and a Mexican mother. In 1960, she appeared in the hugely popular teen movie "Where The Boys Are" as well as George Pal's 1960 motion picture version of H.G. Wells' classic 1895 novel, "The Time Machine", co-starring Rod Taylor. This was followed by "The Light in the Piazza" (1962) with Olivia de Havilland. - Larry Silverstein
Larry A. Silverstein (born 1932 in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, New York) is a Jewish American billionaire real estate investor and operator and the head of Silverstein Properties, a real estate development group. Silverstein is also a member of New York University's Board of Trustees. Silverstein is the developer and leaseholder of the World Trade Center towers that were destroyed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. - Jonathan Knight
Jonathan Rashleigh Knight (born November 29 1968, in Worcester, Massachusetts) is an American singer. Along with his brother Jordan Knight, Donnie Wahlberg, Joe McIntyre, and Danny Wood, they comprised the musical group New Kids on the Block (NKOTB), popular in the mid 1980s to early 1990s. Knight had a relationship with singer Tiffany while his group toured with her. As Knight continued his success along with NKOTB, … - Forest City Enterprises
Forest City Enterprises is a $9-billion diversified real estate management and development company based in Cleveland, Ohio. Its portfolio includes interests in retail centers, apartment communities, office buildings and mixed-use projects in the U.S. The company has recently expanded into military housing communities - Leona Helmsley
Leona Helmsley (born Lena Rosenthol July 4, 1920, in Ulster County, New York) is a New York City hotel operator and real estate investor. She was convicted of federal income tax evasion and other crimes in 1989 and served 18 months in prison, after receiving an initial sentence of 16 years. United States Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, who later became mayor of New York City and United States presidential candidate, was one of the two chief prosecutors. - Rene Gagnon
Rene Arthur Gagnon was one of the U.S. Marines immortalized by Joe Rosenthal's famous World War II photograph "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima". - Ben Katchor
Ben Katchor (born 1951 in Brooklyn, NY) is an American cartoonist. His comic strip "Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer" paints an evocative picture of a slightly surreal, historical New York City with a decidedly Jewish sensibility. "Julius Knipl" has been published in several book collections including "Cheap Novelties: The Pleasure of Urban Decay" and "The Beauty Supply District". - Henry Morrison Flagler
Henry Morrison Flagler (January 2 1830 - May 20 1913) was an American tycoon, real estate promoter, railroad developer and Rockefeller partner in Standard Oil. He was a key figure in the development of the eastern coast of Florida along the Atlantic Ocean and was founder of what became the Florida East Coast Railway. He is known as the father of Miami, Florida. - John D. MacArthur
John Donald MacArthur (March 6, 1897 - January 6, 1978) was an American businessman and philanthropist who established the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, benefactor in the MacArthur Fellowships. MacArthur made his fortune in the insurance business; in 1935, he acquired the Bankers Life and Casualty Company for $2,500. In subsequent years, he built up a business empire through acquisitions of many small insurance corporations. - Bob Corker
Robert Phillips "Bob" Corker, Jr. (born August 24, 1952) is the junior United States Senator from Tennessee. He was formerly the mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee and a successful businessman. He is the only freshman Republican Senator in the 110th Congress. - Manning Marable
Manning Marable (b. 13 May 1950 in Dayton, Ohio) is an American political scholar. He holds the position of Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, and History at Columbia University, where he founded and directed the Institute for Research in African-American Studies. He has published widely, and is politically active in a variety of progressive causes. - Richard Ford
Richard Ford (born February 16, 1944) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel "The Sportswriter" and its sequels, "Independence Day" and "The Lay of the Land", and the widely anthologized story collection "Rock Springs". - Rex Stout
Rex Stout, full name Rex Todhunter Stout, (December 1, 1886 - October 27, 1975) was an American writer best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe, described by reviewer Will Cuppy as "that Falstaff of detectives." Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin recorded the cases of the detective genius from 1934 ("Fer-de-Lance") to 1975 ("A Family Affair"). - Adam Rickitt
Adam Peter Rickitt (born 29 May 1978 in Crewe, Cheshire), is an English actor, former singer and model. His surname is frequently mis-spelled as 'Rickett', including once on the credits of "Coronation Street" when he returned in 2002. - Robert Fisk
Robert Fisk (born July 12 1946 in Maidstone, Kent) is a British journalist and is currently a Middle East correspondent for the British newspaper "The Independent". He was married to the American journalist Lara Marlowe. He lives in Beirut, Lebanon, where he has resided for over 25 years. - Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 - August 28, 1903) was a American landscape architect, famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including Central Park and Prospect Park in New York City. Other project include the country's oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways in Buffalo, New York, the country's oldest state park, the Niagara Reservation in Niagara Falls, New York, Mount Royal Park in Montreal, the Emerald Necklace in Boston, Massachusetts, … - Jim Garrison
Earling Carothers "Jim" Garrison (November 20, 1921 - October 21, 1992) - who changed his first name to simply Jim in the early '60s - was the Democratic District Attorney of Orleans Parish, Louisiana from 1962 to 1973; he is best known for his investigations into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. - Bruce Ratner
Bruce Ratner (born January 23, 1945 in Cleveland, Ohio) is president and CEO of Forest City Ratner, the New York division of Forest City Enterprises, which is based in Cleveland. Ratner was New York City's most active real estate developer during the 1990s. Ratner graduated cum laude from Harvard University in 1967 and graduated from Columbia Law School in 1970. - Aga Khan IV
Karīm al-Hussaynī, Āgā Khān IV KBE CC GCC -- (born December 13, 1936) is the current (49th) Imām of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims. He has been in this position, and held the title of Aga Khan, since July 11, 1957. The Ismailis are ethnically and culturally diverse and reside in over 25 countries around the world. A modern Muslim leader, the Aga Khan is responsible for the interpretation of the faith for his followers and as part of the office of the Imamate, … - Del Webb
Delbert E. Webb (May 17 1899 - July 4 1974) was an American construction magnate, real estate developer and sports-team owner who is significant for founding and developing the retirement community of Sun City, Arizona. He was born in Fresno, California and dropped out of high school to become a carpenter's apprentice. At the age of 28, he suffered typhoid fever, and as a result moved to Phoenix, Arizona to recover. - Diane Nash
Diane Judith Nash was born on May 15, 1938 in Chicago was one of the founders of the SNCC, a key force in the American civil rights movement. - Fred Trump
Frederick Christ "Fred" Trump (October 11, 1905 - June 25, 1999) was the father of the prolific real estate/entertainment magnate Donald Trump, his fourth of five children. Fred Trump was born on October 11, 1905 in Woodhaven, Queens, New York. His parents, Friederich and Elizabeth Trump were German immigrants. His father, Friederich, was an entrepreneur who began his fortune running the Arctic Restaurant and Hotel in Bennett, British Columbia, …
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