- Keith Baker
Keith Baker is a freelance writer of "Dungeons & Dragons" material and is most well known for his setting, Eberron, which won the Wizards of the Coast Fantasy Setting Search. In addition to working with Wizards of the Coast on Eberron material, he has also contributed material for Atlas Games, Goodman Games, and Green Ronin Games. He lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife Ellen. He has a tattoo of the Greater Mark of Making on his right arm. - P. J. O'Rourke
Patrick Jake O'Rourke (born November 14, 1947 in Toledo, Ohio) is an American political satirist, journalist, and writer. He was educated at Miami University and Johns Hopkins University. He confesses that during his student days he was a left-leaning hippie, but that in the 1970s his political views underwent a complete "volte-face". He emerged as a political observer and humorist with definite libertarian, sometimes conservative, … - Robert W. Bly
Robert W. Bly -- often referred to in the trade as "Bob Bly" -- is an authoritative writer on the subjects of copywriting, freelance writing, and other marketing/writing subjects. Bob, age 48, has been a professional writer since 1979 and a full-time freelance writer since 1982. He has written marketing copy for over 100 clients including Network Solutions, ITT Fluid Technology, Medical Economics, Intuit, Business & Legal Reports, and Brooklyn Union Gas. - Michael Totten
Michael J. Totten is a blogger who writes on politics in the Middle East, regularly reporting first-hand in mainstream publications, Web sites, and his blog, "Michael J. Totten's Middle East Journal". Totten supported the war in Iraq and in an article for the conservative FrontPage Magazine.com entitled "A Liberal's Case for Bush's War" wrote "If you don't join us now, when Saddam's regime falls and Iraqis cheer the US Marines, … - Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven, (baptized December 17, 1770 - March 26, 1827) was a German composer. He is regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of music, and was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music. His music and his reputation inspired — and in many cases intimidated — ensuing generations of composers, musicians, and audiences. - Mike Luckovich
Mike Luckovich (born January 28, 1960) is an editorial cartoonist who has worked for "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution" since 1989. He is syndicated nationally to about 150 newspapers (as of October 2005), through Creators Syndicate and is the 2006 winner of the Reuben, the National Cartoonist Society's top award for cartoonist of the year. Luckovich began his career with the "The Greenville News" in South Carolina in 1984, … - Jacob Weisberg
Jacob Weisberg (born 1964) is an American political journalist, currently serving as editor of "Slate" magazine and a columnist for the Financial Times. He is the son of Lois Weisberg, a Chicago social activist and connector celebrated in Malcolm Gladwell's book "The Tipping Point". Weisberg's father, Bernard Weisberg, was a prominent Chicago lawyer and, later, judge. His parents were introduced at a cocktail party by novelist Ralph Ellison. - James Hannigan
James Hannigan (born July 23, 1971) is a BAFTA-celebrated composer and writer of incidental music. He has scored many titles, including, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", "Freelancer", "Brute Force", "Catwoman", "Evil Genius", "Republic: The Revolution", "Sim Theme Park", "Sim Coaster", "Grand Prix 4", "Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat", "F1 2000", "F1 Manager", … - Henry Blodget
Henry Blodget is CEO of Cherry Hill Associates, LLC, an Internet research and consulting firm. He serves as an advisor to several Internet companies, edits an award-winning blog, Internet Outsider , and is a frequent contributor to Slate , Newsweek International , The New York Times , and other publications. He is the author of The Wall Street Self-Defense Manual: A Consumer's Guide to Intelligent Investing . - Andrew Sega
Andrew Gregory Sega (b. 20 May 1975), also known by the pseudonym Necros, is a musician best known for tracking modules in the demo scene in the 1990s. Sega began writing MOD music in 1992 for the demo group Psychic Monks. Through the mid 1990s he contributed music to various demo and music groups, and music disks such as "Epidemic" (1994), featuring other noted tracker musicians like Purple Motion (Jonne Valtonen) and Skaven (Peter Hajba). - Kim Zetter
Kim Zetter is an American freelance journalist in Oakland, California. She has written on a wide variety of subjects from the Kabbalah to dining out in San Francisco to Israel to cryptography and electronic voting, and her work has been published in newspapers and magazines all over the world, including the "Los Angeles Times", "San Francisco Chronicle", "Jerusalem Post", "San Jose Mercury News", "Detroit Free Press", … - 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,... - Kazunari Murakami
is a Japanese freelance professional wrestler and mixed martial artist, best known for his appearances in Pro Wrestling ZERO1-MAX and Big Mouth Loud, of which he was a founding member. He was also part of the first fight in PRIDE history, defeating John Dixon by submission. - Kohei Sato
is a Japanese freelance professional wrestler, best known for his appearances with Pro Wrestling ZERO1-MAX, where he is one half of the current NWA Intercontinental Tag Team Champions with Yoshihiro Takayama. - Ryouji Sai
is a Japanese freelance professional wrestler, most frequently performing for Pro Wrestling ZERO1-MAX and Hustle. - Graeme Davis
Graeme Davis (born 1958 in Isleworth, England) is a writer and editor. He has worked extensively in the gaming industry and was one of the original designers of Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. Davis started playing Dungeons & Dragons in the mid-1970s, shortly after it was first imported into the United Kingdom. After leaving school he worked in the banking industry before studying for a Bachelor of Arts degree in archaeology at the University of Durham in 1979. - Fabian del Priore
Fabian Del Priore (* 27th of May, 1978 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany) is a composer, arranger and sound designer. He has dedicated his entire life to the world of music, for example he started composing on the Commodore C64 home computer, collected synthesizers since he was very young and took private piano lessons for over ten years. Also, he has become an established and critically acclaimed tracker musician under the nickname of "Rapture". - Daniel Cohen
Daniel Edward Cohen (born March 12, 1936 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American non-fiction writer who has produced over one-hundred books, mainly for young audiences. Cohen attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he graduated with degree in journalism in 1958. After graduation he worked as a proofreader at Time, Inc. before becoming an editor for "Science Digest". In 1969 he moved to upstate New York with his wife, Susan, … - Louis Paul Boon
Louis Paul Boon (15 March 1912 - 10 May 1979) was a Flemish journalist and novelist who is considered one of the major 20th century writers in the Dutch language. He forsook the literary Dutch of the Netherlands for regional Flemish words and expressions with which he colored his writing. Born Lodewijk Paul Aalbrecht Boon in Aalst, Belgium to a working-class family, Boon left school at age 16 to work for his father as a carriage painter. - George Barris
George Barris grew up in New York City before the World War II. His interest in photography was lifelong, and as a young man he worked for the U.S. Army's Office of Public Relations. Many of his phtographs of General Eisenhower were published. After the war, he became a freelance photographer and readily found work in Hollywood. He photographed many stars of the 1950s and 1960s, including Elizabeth Taylor on the set of "Cleopatra". - Peter Lloyd
Peter Lloyd (born 1944) is a freelance illustrator specializing in advertising and digital artwork. Lloyd was born in England in 1944, but moved to the United States in 1959, where he was the youngest student to graduate from the Art Center College of Design with a master's degree. Lloyd provided art to several large advertising clients in the 1960s, including National Geographic and the National Football League. - David Cage
David De Gruttola (born June 9, 1969), better known by his pseudonym David Cage, is a French musician and video game designer. He is the head of game developer studio Quantic Dream. Cage has most of the leading roles in the company and the development of the games, being founder, chief executive officer, chief financial officer, director, game designer, screenwriter, project leader, and more. - George Sheldon
George Sheldon is a prolific American freelance writer, journalist and author. - Roger East
Roger East (1924 - December 8, 1975) was an Australian journalist who was murdered by Indonesian soldiers during the invasion of East Timor in 1975. A freelancer then working for the Australian Associated Press (AAP), East came to Portuguese Timor in October 1975 following up the story of the Balibo Five who had been killed by the Indonesians in an incursion just weeks before. Previously, he had worked as a publicity officer for the Country Party in Queensland, … - Anita McNaught
Anita McNaught is a United Kingdom/New Zealand dual nationality freelance journalist and television presenter, currently working for Fox News. She has worked as a reporter for America's CNN and on a freelance basis for Television New Zealand (TVNZ). As well as television, she has also contributed prominently to radio, as a regular contributor on Radio New Zealand; and in print journalism. McNaught was born in London in 1965. - Tavleen Singh
Tavleen Singh is a noted columnist and political reporter. She was born in Mussoorie in 1950 and studied at the Welham Girls School. Tavleen completed her education in India and started her career with a reporting job at Evening Mail, Slough, where she worked and trained for two and a half years under the Westminster Press/Thompson training scheme. She returned to India in 1974 to work with The Statesman as a reporter and went on to do several stories on communal riots, … - Hans A. Pestalozzi
Hans A. Pestalozzi was a Swiss social critic who, in the prime of life, broke free from the Establishment and started a new life explaining and criticizing late 20th century capitalism, which eventually led to his becoming a bestselling author ("Nach uns die Zukunft", "Auf die Bäume ihr Affen"). Pestalozzi was born in Zürich. After his university education, which he received in St. Gallen, … - Nina Ruge
Nina Ruge is a German journalist, TV presenter and author. She is the daughter of an engineering professor and visited the Ina-Seidel-Schule in Braunschweig. Her sister Annette is a medical doctor at London-Gatwick airport. After finishing high school at the age of 17 she studied biology and German language and literature at the Technical University of Braunschweig to become a teacher. She passed her final exams with distinction. - Arcadian del Sol
Arcadian Del Sol was the pen name of a writer who focused on news and issues relating to MMORPGs. Arcadian wrote for the blog "The Rantings of Lum The Mad" and then went on to write freelance for "Computer Gaming World" magazine. - John Marty
John Marty (born 1956-11-01) is a State Senator from Minnesota and former candidate for Governor. He is a member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. A freelance writer and charity worker, Marty was first elected to the Minnesota State Senate from Minnesota's 54th district in 1986, serving the communities of Roseville, St. Anthony, Little Canada, Vadnais Heights, Lauderdale, Gem Lake, and Shoreview. - Monica Lierhaus
Monica Lierhaus (born 25 May 1970 in Hamburg) is a German sports journalist. In 1989 she passed the Abitur at Charlotte-Paulsen-Gymnasium in Hamburg, afterwards she studied Anglistics and German literature at Hamburg University and attended a practical in the editorial-office of the Sport-Bild magazine. Furthermore she worked as a freelancer for Radio Hamburg and Klassik-Radio (German radio stations). - Barbara Albright
Barbara Albright was an American author of about 25 food and knitting books. She was also former editor-in-chief of "The Chocolatier" magazine, a food editor as "Redbook" and "Woman's World" and a freelance writer for the Associated Press. Albright graduated from Fremont High School in Fremont, Nebraska and from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln with a bachelor's degree in food and nutrition. - Béla Réthy
Béla Andreas Réthy is a German sports reporter of Hungarian stock. When Réthy was born, his parents had to leave their home country because of the Hungarian Revolution. They emigrated to Brazil where they stayed until they came to Germany in 1968. Here Réthy got his certificate of having passed the Abitur so that he was able to attend Wiesbaden University where he studied literature and journalism. - Steve Stiles
Steve Stiles is a science fiction artist and writer, coming out of the science fiction fanzine tradition. He studied at the High School of Music and Art and the School of Visual Arts and later wrote about this in his essay, "Art School": :Both were located in Manhattan, where I was, and both had excellent reputations. And so, in 1956, at age 13, I took the entrance exams at M&A, which partly consisted of drawing an arrangement of old shoes and flowers, … - Jasmine Becket-Griffith
Jasmine Becket-Griffith (born June 4, 1979) is a freelance artist who specializes in fairy, fantasy, and gothic artwork. Her preferred medium is acrylic on a sheet of flat canvas and her designs appear on many lines of licensed merchandise, notably through the chain store Hot Topic. She lives in Celebration, Florida with her husband and cats. Jasmine Ann Becket-Griffith is a member of Fantasy and SciFi Art gallery 179 at Elfwood. - Marc Leepson
Marc Leepson (born June 20, 1945 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American journalist, historian, and author. His books include "Desperate Engagement: How a Little Known Civil War Battle Saved Washington, D.C. and Changed American History", "Flag: An American Biography", "Saving Monticello" and "Webster's New World Dictionary of the Vietnam War". Leepson was educated at Hillside High School in Hillside, … - Pablo Stoll
Pablo Stoll (b.1974, Montevideo) is a Uruguayan film director and screenwriter. He attended the Catholic University of Uruguay where he studied Social communication, it was here that he started to direct short films and his collaboration with fellow student Juan Pablo Rebella first began. After graduating in 1999 he and Rebella started work on their first feature film, "25 Watts" (2001), … - Jonas Gahr Støre
Jonas Gahr Støre is the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was appointed to his current position in the second cabinet Stoltenberg on 17 October 2005. Mr. Gahr Støre belongs to the Norwegian Labour Party. He attended Berg School in Oslo followed by naval officer training at the Royal Norwegian Naval Academy. He later studied political science at the Institut d'etudes politiques de Paris (best known as Sciences Po) in Paris, … - Monika Hájková
Monika Hájková is a Czech freelancer model. She is known under many aliases, but is easily recognisable by a dolphin tattoo on her left ankle. - Frigyes Hidas
Frigyes Hidas was a Hungarian composer. Hidas studied composition at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest with János Visky. After his studies, he was the musical director of the National Theater in Budapest from 1951 to 1966 and also held the same role at the city's Operetta Theater from 1974 to 1979. Following this, Hidas was a freelance composer. His oeuvre covered almost every genre, including operas, ballets, concertos, other orchestral works, chamber music, …
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