- Dave Gorman
David James Gorman (born March 2, 1971) is a documentary comedian and humorist. He performs comedy shows on stage in which he tells stories of extreme adventures and presents the evidence to the audience in order to prove to them that, unlike in most other stage presentations, they are true stories. He is a former stand-up comedian. Gorman was born in Stafford, England. He studied mathematics at Manchester University (but never graduated), and before his solo successes, … - Aaron Henry
Aaron Henry (July 2, 1922 - May 19, 1997) was a civil rights leader, politician, and head of the NAACP. He was born in Dublin, Mississippi to Ed and Mattie Henry who were sharecroppers. He enlisted in the Army after high school and later attended Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans on the GI Bill. He graduated with a degree in Pharmacy. He opened a drug store in Clarksdale, Mississippi. - David Dillon
David Dillon is the CEO of Kroger in Cincinnati, Ohio. Born in Hutchinson, Kansas in 1951, he graduated from Hutchinson High School in 1969. He is an Eagle Scout and was a senior patrol leader in Boy Scout Troop 301, of which his father was Scoutmaster. He attended the University of Kansas, where he was student body president. Dillon also attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX. - J Leman
J Leman is an All Big Ten linebacker for the University of Illinois. Sports Illustrated also named him to their honorable mention All-American team. He has one season of college eligibility left. J graduated from the U of I with a degree in speech communications in the summer of 2006. Currently, he is pursing a master's degree. "Personal Info" J is currently 21 years old and was born in 1985. He comes from a family of 4 other siblings. - Anna Chlumsky
Anna Chlumsky (born December 3, 1980 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American actress. She entered show business at an early age modeling with her mother in an advertising campaign. She is best known for playing Vada Sultenfuss in the 1991 movie "My Girl". She was in Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain with Christina Ricci, in which they "clown around" on a "haunted" mountain. - Margaret Levi
Margaret Levi (born 1946) is an American political scientist and author, noted for her work in comparative political economy, labor politics, and democratic theory, notably on the origins and effects of trustworthy government. Levi graduated with a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 1968 and completed a Ph.D. degree in government at Harvard University in 1974. Since then, she has taught at the University of Washington in Seattle, … - John Aldrich
John Aldrich (born 1947) is an American political scientist and author, known for his research and writings on American politics, elections, and political parties, and on formal theory and methodology in political science. Aldrich graduated with a B.A. in political science from Allegheny College in 1969. He attended graduate school at the University of Rochester, completing an M.A. in 1971 and a PhD degree in 1975. - Jim Grabowski
James S. Grabowski (born September 9, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American football player and broadcaster. Grabowski played collegiately at the University of Illinois and professionally for the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears, and currently serves as an analyst on University of Illinois football radio broadcasts. Grabowski attended the University of Illinois out of Taft High School in Chicago. At Illinois, Grabowski was a star running back, … - Ed Curtis
Ed Curtis (born 1980 in England) is a British theatre director. Curtis graduated from The University of Birmingham with a First Class Honours Bachelor of the Arts Degree in Drama and Theatre Arts. His directing credits include: *Calamity Jane by Sammy Fain and Paul Francis Webster (UK Tour and West End) which was nominated for "Best Musical" at the Manchester Evening News Awards 2003 *"The Big Odyssey" (Assembly Rooms, … - Kate Fleming
Kathryn Ann "Kate" Fleming (October 6 1965 - December 14 2006) was an American award-winning audio book narrator and producer. She was the owner and executive producer at Cedar House Audio, an audio production company specializing in spoken word that is located in Seattle, Washington, United States. Fleming died when a flash flood trapped her inside her Madison Valley basement studio during the Hanukkah Eve Wind Storm of 2006. She is survived by her partner of nine years, … - Niger Innis
Niger Innis is an African American conservative Republican consultant, strategist and National Spokesperson for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Innis graduated from Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Science (BSc.) degree in Political Science in 1990. Born in Harlem, New York, he currently lives in Westchester, New York with his white lover Heath McCasland of Fort Worth, Texas. His father, Roy Innis, has been National Director of CORE since 1968. - Brad Wardell
Bradley R. Wardell (born 24 June, 1971 in Texas), commonly known as Brad Wardell, is an American residing in Michigan. He is the founder and current President and CEO of Stardock, a software development and computer games company. Brad graduated in 1994 from Western Michigan University with a degree in Electronic Engineering. His first notable achievement was the design and implementation of "Galactic Civilizations" for OS/2, … - Asami Kimura
is a J-pop singer and former member of Hello! Project. She joined the group Country Musume in 2000 and became the group leader in 2002. She also played on the Gatas Brilhantes H.P. futsal team. She graduated from Hello! Project on January 28, 2007. She is currently living in Tokyo, Japan, and according to her graduation speech, she would like to pursue a career involving animals. - Patrick M. Walsh
U.S. Navy Admiral Patrick M. Walsh is the Vice Chief of Naval Operations, Pentagon, Washington, D.C. Adm. Walsh graduated with honors from Jesuit College Preparatory in Dallas, Texas, and was the second student in the sixty-year history of the school to receive both the Distinguished Graduate and Distinguished Alumnus awards. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1977 with a Bachelor of Science degree. After designation as a Naval Aviator, Adm. - Patricia Broadfoot
Patricia M. Broadfoot (born 13 July 1949 in Kingswood, Gloucestershire) is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Gloucestershire. Broadfoot's main academic interests are in sociology and educational assessment. This began with her studies at the University of Leeds, from where she graduated in 1971 with a BA in sociology. She spent the following year obtaining a PGCE at the University of London, … - Amalya Lyle Kearse
Amalya Lyle Kearse (born June 11, 1937 in Vauxhall, New Jersey) is a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1979. She took senior status in 2002. Her father was a postmaster and her mother was a doctor. A philosophy major and 1959 graduate of Wellesley College, she was the only black woman in her law school class at the University of Michigan. - Johnny Klein
John A. Klein, Jr. (June 4, 1918-January 31, 1997) was an American born musician who played drums for the Lawrence Welk orchestra from 1951 to 1976 and on "The Lawrence Welk Show" from 1955 to 1976. He was also Welk's second cousin as well. Born in Strasburg, North Dakota, he was the son of German-Russian parents and the oldest of five children. It was during his early years that he took up music, especially the drums where he got to perform with several area bands. - Kaikala Satyanarayana
Kaikala Satyanarayana was born on July 25, 1935 to Kaikala Laxmi Narayana couple at Kautaram village in Krishna district. Having completed his primary and intermediate education in Gudivada and Vijayawada, Satyanarayana graduated from Gudivada College. He married Nageswaramma on April 10, 1960 and is blessed with two daughters and two sons. With his striking personality and sound voice, Satyanarayana landed in Madras for roles in movies. He was first noticed by DL Narayana. - George Fletcher Moore
George Fletcher Moore was a prominent early settler in colonial Western Australia, and "one [of] the key figures in early Western Australia's ruling elite" (Cameron, 2000). He conducted a number of exploring expeditions; was responsible for one of the earliest published records of the language of the Australian Aborigines of the Perth area; and was the author of Diary of Ten Years Eventful Life of an Early Settler in Western Australia. - Banky Yeung
Banky Yeung Ping-kei is a theatre playwright, director and actor in Hong Kong. Graduated from Faculty of Playwriting in Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Yeung is the Artistic Director of Hong Kong theatre company FM Theatre Power. - Waen Shepherd
Waen Shepherd is a British actor and comedian. Waen is a versatile character comedian, native of Yorkshire' England, inhabitant of London. Following his days as a stand-up poet and fringe actor ("Supple-limbed… expressive … effortless" What's On), Waen started out performing bizarre experimental monologues at the early Club Zarathustra, … - François Simiand
François Simiand was a French sociologist and economist best known as a participant in the Année Sociologique. As a member of the French Historical School of economics, Simiand predicated a rigorous factual and statistical basis for theoretical models and policies. His contribution to French social science was recognized in 1931 when, at the age of 58, he was elected to the faculty of the Collège de France and accepted the chair in labor history. - Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman, born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel is a Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated Israeli-American actress. - Betye Ireen Saar
Betye Saar (1926 - ) was born and raised in Los Angeles. During visits to her grandmother, she saw Simon Rodia's Watts Towers being built, which had a profound impact on her use of discarded items in her art work. Saar received her B.A. from UCLA, and did graduate work at the University of Southern California and the California State Universities at Long Beach and Northridge. - Evelle J. Younger
Evelle Jansen Younger (June 19 1918-May 4 1989) was Attorney General of California from 1971 to 1979. Prior to that, he was District Attorney of Los Angeles County 1964-1971. In 1978, he ran for Governor of California, but lost to incumbent Jerry Brown. Younger was a member of the Republican Party. Younger served in the United States Army during World War II and then became an FBI agent. - Michael France
Michael France (b. 1962) is a film screenwriter. He has written screenplays for the action films "Cliffhanger" (1993), the James Bond film "GoldenEye" (1995), and the popular comic book films "Hulk" (2003), "The Punisher" (2004) and "Fantastic 4" (2005). - Andrea Savage
Andrea Kristen Savage (born 20 February, 1973 in Santa Monica, California) is an American actress. She appeared as Tillie Sullivan in the Comedy Central mockumentary show "Dog Bites Man". - Daniel Ling
Daniel Ling, OC (March 16, 1926 - August 9, 2003) was a foremost authority on the teaching of speech to deaf children. His speech teaching methods are widely used throughout the world. From 1973 to 1984, he was a Professor, Graduate Studies in Aural Habilitation at McGill University. From 1984 to 1991, he was Dean of the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Western Ontario. In 1999, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. - Andrew Dickson White
Andrew Dickson White (November 7 1832 - November 4 1918) was a U.S. diplomat, author, and educator, best known as the co-founder of Cornell University. White was born in Homer, New York. After spending one year at Hobart College (then known as Geneva College), he transferred to Yale University. At Yale, he was a classmate of Daniel Coit Gilman, who would later serve as first president of Johns Hopkins University. The two were members of the Skull and Bones secret society, … - Sidney Robertson Cowell
Sidney Robertson Cowell (born Sidney William Hawkins in San Francisco, California, United States, 1903; d. 1995) was an American ethnographer and the wife of the composer Henry Cowell. She collected a large volume of American folk songs between 1936 and 1957, particularly for the WPA Northern California Folk Music Project (1938-1940), which she initiated. In her later life, she lived in Shady, New York, United States. - Robert S. Smith
Robert Sherlock Smith is an Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals. Smith was born in New York City in 1944, and grew up in Massachusetts and Connecticut. He graduated from Stanford University and, in 1968 from Columbia Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the law review. From 1968 to 2003 he practiced law in New York City with the firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, … - Kary Mullis
Kary Banks Mullis, Ph.D. (born December 28, 1944) is an American biochemist and Nobel laureate. Dr Mullis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1993 for his development of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), a central technique in biochemistry and molecular biology which allows the amplification of specified DNA sequences. Dr Mullis subsequently was awarded the Japan Prize that same year. - Anthony J. Bryant
Anthony J. Bryant (b. 1961) is the author of four books for Osprey Military Publishing on samurai history. He is an amateur historian of Japan specializing in Kamakura, Muromachi, and Momoyama period warrior culture. His areas of interest also include Heian-period court structure and society and Japanese literature. Bryant was born in Franklin, Indiana. After graduating from Florida State University in 1983 with a bachelor's degree in Japanese studies, … - Pat Weaver
Sylvester "Pat" Weaver (December 21, 1908 - March 17, 2002) was a former radio advertising executive who was president of NBC between 1953 and 1955. He has been credited with reshaping broadcasting's format and philosophy as radio gave way to television as America's dominant home entertainment. - David Dellinger
David Dellinger was a renowned pacifist and activist for nonviolent social change, and one of the most influential American radicals in the 20th century. He was most famous for being one of the Chicago Seven, a group of protesters whose disruption of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago led to charges of "conspiracy" and "crossing state lines with the intention of inciting a riot". - Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell (born February 1, 1927) is one of the most influential American poets of the latter half of the 20th century. An admitted follower of Walt Whitman, Kinnell rejects the idea of seeking fulfillment by escaping into the imaginary world. His best-loved and most anthologized poems, such as "St. - David Leavitt
David Leavitt (born June 23, 1961) is an American novelist. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Leavitt is a graduate of Yale University. He is the author of "Equal Affections", "The Page Turner", "Martin Bauman, or A Sure Thing", "The Lost Language of Cranes", "While England Sleeps" (for the publication of which he was sued by Stephen Spender), "The Body of Jonah Boyd", and numerous short stories. - Julia Butler Hansen
Julia Butler Hansen (1907-1988), born Julia Caroline Butler, June 14, 1907, in Portland, Oregon, USA, served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1960-1974. She represented Washington's Third Congressional District as a Democrat. Her father, Donald C. Butler, was sheriff of Wahkiakum County and her mother, Maude (Kimball), was named Washington's "Mother of the Year" in 1960. Hansen attended public school in Washington. - William C. Campbell
William Cammack "Bill" Campbell (born May 5, 1923), often known as William C. Campbell, is an American amateur golfer and two-time President of the United States Golf Association (USGA). He was inducted to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1990. Campbell was born in Huntington, West Virginia. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II, and graduated from Princeton University in 1947 with a degree in history. - Kenneth Claiborne Royall
Kenneth Claiborne Royall (July 24, 1894-May 25, 1971) was a United States Army general and the last person to hold the office of Secretary of War. That position was abolished in 1947, and Royall served as the first Secretary of the Army (a successory position) from 1947 to 1949.
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