- Milton Bradley
Milton Bradley (November 5, 1836 - May 30, 1911) was an American game pioneer, credited by many with launching the board game industry in North America with Milton Bradley Company. A native of Vienna, Maine, USA, in his late teens Bradley chose to pursue the printing trade, including lithography. He set up the first color lithography shop in the state of Massachusetts, established in Springfield 1860.
- Usagi Yojimbo Role-Playing Game
The Usagi Yojimbo Role-Playing Game is an American role-playing game based on Stan Sakai's Eisner-award winning comic-book series Usagi Yojimbo. The game is written by Jason Holmgren and Pieter van Hiel, published by Sanguine Productions in 2005. The game is set in a fantasy version of Japan in the Edo period (beginning of the 17th century) and uses a heavily modified variant of the systems used in Sanguine Productions' other role-playing games; Ironclaw, …
- Philip Game
Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Woolcott Game GCB GCVO GBE KCMG DSO RAF (30 March 1876 – 4 February 1961) was a British Royal Air Force commander and Governor of New South Wales, Australia.
- Steve Jackson
Steve Jackson (born 1951 in Manchester, England) is a games reviewer and writer. He is one of the best known authors in the gaming industry. In 1975, he founded the company Games Workshop with Ian Livingstone, and the two created the line of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks published by Penguin Books. Jackson now works at Lionhead Studios, which he founded with Peter Molyneux. He is also an honorary lecturer at Brunel University in London, …
- Steve Jackson
Steve Jackson (born ~1953) is an American game designer. After working for many years at Metagaming designing such games as "Ogre" and "The Fantasy Trip", he left to found Steve Jackson Games (SJ Games) in the early 1980s. He designed many of the games published by SJ Games, such as "Car Wars", "GURPS", "Munchkin" and many others.
- Mark Mulder
Mark Alan Mulder (born August 5, 1977 in South Holland, Illinois) is a left-handed starting pitcher for the St.Louis Cardinals MLB. After playing for Michigan State University, Mulder was selected by the Oakland Athletics with the second overall pick in the 1998 MLB amateur draft. Mulder was quickly placed on the fast track to the major leagues and made his major-league debut on April 18, …
- Josh Bard
Joshua David Bard (born March 30, 1978, in Ithaca, New York) is a catcher for the San Diego Padres. He played for the Cleveland Indians from 2002 through 2005, and was acquired by the Boston Red Sox on January 27, 2006, along with outfielder Coco Crisp and reliever David Riske, for reliever Guillermo Mota, third-base prospect Andy Marte, and catcher Kelly Shoppach. Bard is a switch-hitter who throws right.
- Joe Rogan
Joe Rogan (born August 11 1967) is an American comedian and actor best known for his role as host on the TV game/reality program "Fear Factor" and as a cast member of the sitcom "NewsRadio". Rogan is also a color commentator for the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He holds a Brown Belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu under Eddie Bravo and Jean Jacques Machado.
- James Franklin
James L. Franklin is a weather forecaster with the National Hurricane Center. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and of Ransom Everglades School in Miami, where he was a co-valedictorian. Franklin likes to add his wit to many of his forecasts, much like his counterpart Dr. Lixion Avila and in contrast with the often dry commentary of other forecasters. For example: *In forecasting 2002 Atlantic hurricane season's Hurricane Kyle, …
- Nami Tamaki
is a Japanese pop singer, known for her young age and her powerful dancing. Her career took off when she was selected out of 5,000, singing and dancing to Destiny's Child's "Survivor" in a Sony Music Japan Audition in 2003. She has various commercial tie-ins with Japan anime and games industry, and also have performed a stage musical as well as a movie.
- Alan Miller
Alan Miller is a pioneering and influential figure in the video game industry. He was an early game designer and programmer for Atari 2600 games who went on to found two large video game developers and publishers. Miller joined Atari in February 1977 and was one of the first four Atari 2600 game designers. His 2600 titles include "Surround", "Hunt & Score", "Hangman" and "Basketball".
- Gabriel Agbonlahor
Gabriel Agbonlahor (born October 131986 in Birmingham) is an English footballer of half Nigerian and half Scottish descent due to his Nigerian father and Scottish mother. Agbonlahor currently plays for English football club Aston Villa Although Agbonlahor, is eligible to play international football for both Nigeria and Scotland, he has stated that playing for England was always his first choice. He currently represents England at under 21 level.
- David Lodge
David Lodge (born January 28, 1935 at London, England) is a British author.
- Bobby Kotick
Robert "Bobby" Kotick, chairman and CEO of American computer game company Activision, Inc., is credited for bringing back a near bankrupt game company (Activision) and transforming it into one of the most successful publishing houses to date. At a time when game companies were laying off droves of employees and closing their doors, with Kotick's lead, Activision grouped together key staff, signed on star developers, …
- Erick Wujcik
Erick Wujcik is a designer of both role-playing games and computer role-playing games, and co-founder of Palladium Books. He started off as head of the gaming society at Wayne State University, and then as a computer columnist for "The Detroit News" from 1979 to 1981, where he wrote their weekly "Computer Column".
- Adrian Dantley
Adrian Delano Dantley (born February 28, 1956 in Washington, D.C.) is a former basketball small forward who played 15 seasons in the NBA, many of which were played as a member of the Utah Jazz where he amassed the bulk of his legendary numbers.
- Peter Suber
Peter Suber Professor of Philosophy Earlham College
- Andrew Looney
Andrew J. Looney (b. 1963), better known as Andy Looney, is an award-winning game designer and computer programmer.
- J. D. Frazer
J. D. Frazer (born 1965), pen name Illiad, is the artist and writer of the webcomic "User Friendly". The strip debuted in November, 1997, and is considered to be one of the first major webcomics. It is about a group of characters who work for a fictional Internet Service Provider, and the comic's readership consists mainly of programmers, self-styled geeks, and other technophiles.
- Brian Moriarty
Brian Moriarty (born 1956) is an American game developer who authored three of the original Infocom interactive fiction titles, "Wishbringer" (1985), "Trinity" (1986) and "Beyond Zork: The Coconut of Quendor" (1987). Two earlier games, "Adventure in the 5th Dimension" (1983) and "Crash Dive!" (1984), were published in the pages of "ANALOG Computing", a magazine for Atari home computer enthusiasts.
- Eric Lengyel
Eric Lengyel is a computer game engine developer with experience in areas including 3D graphics, animation, audio, and networking. He is the author of the textbook "Mathematics for 3D Game Programming and Computer Graphics" (Charles River Media, 2002). Lengyel is also a member of the editorial board for the "Journal of Graphics Tools" and a contributor to the "Game Programming Gems" series.
- Thomas F. Wilson
Thomas Francis Wilson, Jr. (born April 15, 1959) is an American character actor, comedian, musician, painter, and voice-over artist. He studied international politics at Arizona State University.
- Noizi Ito
is a female Japanese manga and game artist from Hyōgo, Japan. She is employed by the H-game maker UNiSONSHIFT and is a part of the circle Fujitsubo-Machine. Unlike most romanized Japanese words and names, Noizi Ito's name uses the Kunrei-shiki romanization form.
- Lisa Morgan
Lisa Morgan is the CEO of the leading video games retailer GAME. She first joined the Game Group PLC in 1997. She was promoted to deputy chief executive in 2000 and again in 2004 to assume the role of Chief Executive. Lisa is succeeding Martin Long as CEO who managed to increase the number of GAME stores from 16 in 1994 to 800 in 2004.
- Shane Lacy Hensley
Shane Lacy Hensley is an author, game designer, and CEO of Pinnacle Entertainment Group and is currently a resident of Los Gatos, California. He has written several novels and designed a variety of games including miniatures wargames, tabletop wargames, and role-playing games, as well as substantial freelance work writing modules for game systems. He has also scripted at least one computer game.
- Robert Woodhead
Robert J. Woodhead is a entrepreneur, software engineer and former game programmer. Some would says a common thread in his career is "doing weird things with computers". Along with Andrew C. Greenberg, he created the Apple II game "Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord", one of the first role-playing games (RPGs) written for a personal computer. Later, he authored Interferon and Virex, two of the earliest anti-virus applications for the Macintosh, …
- Oswald Jacoby
Oswald Jacoby (December 8, 1902 - June 27, 1984) was an American bridge expert and author, and is considered one of the greatest players of all time. Born in Brooklyn, he was taught to play whist at the age of six. During World War I, he joined the army at 15 by lying about his age, but spent most of his time there playing poker. Dropping out of Columbia University to become an actuary, he became the youngest person ever to pass the examination of the Society of Actuaries, …
- John Avon
John Avon (born 1961) is an illustrator who does work on book covers, games and other media formats. His most famous works are perhaps the artworks he does for the collectible card game "Magic: The Gathering", of which he has produced over 200 paintings.. He is well-known for his depiction of landscapes on 'Basic Land' cards.
- Sean Barrett
Sean Barrett (born August 5, 1967) is an independent game designer and game and graphics programmer. Barrett is also a musician, writer and photographer. He resides in Oakland, California. In 1994, Barrett began work with Looking Glass Studios where he contributed to the "System Shock" series, the "Thief" series, Flight Unlimited series and "Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri".
- John Boardman
John Boardman (born September 8, 1932) is one of the most famous figures in the game of Diplomacy, having established the original play-by-mail setup and also the system of numbering each game for statistical purposes. These numbers, known as Boardman Numbers, include the year and a letter indicating sequence. For instance, 2004A was the first game started in 2004. Boardman started the first successful postal Diplomacy 'zine, "Graustark", in 1964.
- Burt Hochberg
Burt Hochberg was an expert on chess and other games and puzzles. He authored and edited many books on chess, and served as editor of both "Chess Life" and "GAMES" magazine.
- Yuki Koyanagi
is a Japanese pop singer. Her height is 154cm, and her blood type is 'B'. She released her first single, 'Anata no kisu o kazoemashô - You Were Mine' on September 15, 1999. This song was a huge hit in Japan and made the 17-year-old a sensation overnight. Her second album 'EXPANSION', sold over 1.3 million copies. She has done several albums (in English) of cover songs, including disco and movie standards.
- Jake Kaufman
Jake Kaufman (also known as virt) (born April 3 1981) is an American video game music composer. In 2002, he set up the website VGMix and administered it until the site's troubles in 2006. He is presently redesigning it, for the second time, with a team of volunteers. He is also a member of the netlabel Hellven. Kaufman has recently released an album for free under the creative commons license on 8bitpeoples.com entitled FX3, …
- Jason della Rocca
Jason is the executive director of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), a professional society committed to advancing the careers and enhancing the lives of game developers. Jason and the IGDA focus on connecting developers with their peers, promoting professional development, and advocating on issues that affect the developer community -- such as quality of life, creative freedoms, workforce diversity and credit standards.
- Espen J. Aarseth
Espen J. Aarseth (born 1965) is a major figure in the emerging field of video game studies. He is one of the most prominent figures among what are called the "ludologists," a group of thinkers characterized by their insistence on treating video games not as a form of narrative or as a text, but instead simply as games, with the dynamics of play and interaction being the most important and fundamental part of the games.
- John Scarne
Orlando Carmelo Scarnecchia (March 4, 1903 - July 7, 1985) was born in Steubenville, Ohio and at some point anglicized his name to John Scarne (International Phonetic AlphabetHe moved to Fairview, New Jersey as a child. Leaving school after the eighth grade, he learned as a teenager from his father how to perform card tricks like Three-card Monte and to gamble using cards and dice.
- Mike Glavine
Michael Patrick Glavine (born January 24, 1973 in Concord, Massachusetts) was a Major League Baseball first baseman who played for the New York Mets in 2003. He is the brother of Tom Glavine. He was drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the 22nd round of the 1995 amateur draft. His only Major League experience came when he joined the Mets in September, 2003, joining his brother on the team. He played in six games and had one hit in seven at bats for the 2003 Mets.
- Myfanwy Ashmore
Myfanwy Ashmore (born 1970, North York, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian conceptual artist who has been involved in information art, new media art, gameart, video art, interactive art, internet art since 1995. She studied at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design, in 1990, graduated from the Sculpture-Installation department at the Ontario College of Art in 1996, and received her MFA from York University in 1998. As well as being an international exhibiting artist, …
- Ralph H. Baer
Ralph H. Baer (born March 8,1922) is a German-born American inventor, noted for his many contributions to games and the video game industry. In 2006, he was awarded the National Medal of Technology for inventing the home console for video games and spawning the video game industry.
- Trevor Truran
Trevor Truran (born 1942) is a United Kingdom former mathematics teacher, best known as the creator of many games and puzzles. Truran began making up games as mathematical teaching aids. At one time his entire mathematics course for 9-13 year olds was based on games, puzzles and story situations. Early games were published in "Games & Puzzles Magazine" and he became Puzzles Editor of that magazine and later of "Top Puzzles".