- Katharine Gun
Katharine Teresa Gun (born Katharine Teresa Harwood in 1974) is a former translator for Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), a British intelligence agency. In 2003, she became publicly known for leaking top-secret information to the press concerning alleged illegal activities by the United States in their push for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. - Armando Gun
Armando Gun (born 17 January 1986) is a Panamanian football defender who currently plays for Chepo F.C.. He made his debut for the Panama national football team in 2005 against Ecuador and was member of the Panama U-20 team that took part in the 2005 FIFA World Youth Cup in the Netherlands. - Tammy Bruce
Tammy Bruce (born August 19, 1962) is a pro-choice lesbian feminist who hosts "The Tammy Bruce Show," a radio talk show broadcast on over 160 stations in the United States. Bruce describes herself as a classical liberal author and political commentator. "The Tammy Bruce Show" broadcasts three hours a day six days a week, including Saturdays. She is also a political contributor to Fox News Channel. She is described on her website as "an openly homosexual, … - Eazy-E
Eric Lynn Wright (September 7 1963-March 26 1995), better known by the stage name Eazy-E, was an American rapper, producer, and record executive from Compton, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. He was a Kelly Park Compton Crip from the early teenage years until his death, mentioned in the song 'Any Last Werdz?'. He was the son of Richard and Kathie Wright. - Marc Ribot
Marc Ribot (born 21 May 1954 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American guitarist, composer and singer. Ribot has performed and recorded with Tom Waits, John Zorn, Jack McDuff, Wilson Pickett, The Lounge Lizards, Arto Lindsay, Medeski, Martin and Wood, Cibo Matto, Sam Phillips, Elvis Costello, David Poe, Allen Ginsberg, Foetus, and Susana Baca. His work is featured on Waits's "Rain Dogs", "Franks Wild Years", "Mule Variations" and "Real Gone". - John Milius
John Milius (born April 11, 1944 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer of motion pictures. A former student at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television, Milius started his movie career in a student film contest in 1967, for which he won first prize on his entry "Marcello I'm Bored". Milius wrote, co-wrote and/or directed popular and critically acclaimed films such as "Apocalypse Now", … - Barry Brown
Barry Brown, also known as Donald Barry Brown, was an American actor, and brother of the late actress Marilyn Brown and the writer James Brown. Born in San Jose, California, Brown began his acting career as a child of five and took part in many television and live performances. He was a gifted young man born with a genius I.Q. and exerted himself in the manner of a child prodigy, … - Jennifer O'Neill
Jennifer O'Neill (born February 20, 1948) is an American actress and author. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the daughter of a Spanish-Irish businessman and his English wife. As a teenager, O'Neill worked as a fashion model and appeared in television commercials and on magazine covers. In 1968 she landed a small role in "For the Love of Ivy". In 1970 she played one of the lead female roles in "Rio Lobo" starring John Wayne. - Yuji Naka
is a video game designer, programmer, the former head of Sonic Team, a group of Sega programmers/designers, the lead programmer of the original "Sonic the Hedgehog" and the head of PROPE. After graduating High school, Yuji Naka decided to skip university and stay in his hometown of Osaka. During this time, Yuji worked long hours at various menial jobs. After quiting his last job, Yuji saw that Sega was looking for programming assistants. - Arthur Kellermann
Dr. Arthur L. Kellermann, M.D., M.P.H. (born 1955) is a professor and chairman of the department of emergency medicine at Emory University. He is also currently director of the Center for Injury Control of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University School of Medicine, as well as co-chair of the Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. - Marty Paich
Martin Louis Paich was a pianist, composer, arranger, producer, music director and conductor. In a career which spanned half a century, he worked in these capacities for such artists as Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Sarah Vaughan, Stan Kenton, Ella Fitzgerald, Mel Tormé, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Linda Ronstadt, Stan Getz, Sammy Davis Jr, Michael Jackson, Art Pepper, and a hundred others. However, his name is essentially unknown outside professional circles. - Richard S. Castellano
Richard S. Castellano was an American actor. Born in the Bronx, his greatest fame came from playing the part of Vito Corleone's Capo, Pete Clemenza, in "The Godfather". One of his most famous Quotes of the film is " Leave the gun, take the cannoli."(After witnessing the murder of Paulie Gatto.) He also appeared on television, playing the lead role of Joe Girelli in the TV sitcom "The Super". Richard Castellano died from a heart attack at the age of 55. - James Puckle
James Puckle (1667 - 1724) was an English inventor, lawyer and writer from London chiefly remembered for his invention of the "Defence Gun" (better known as the "Puckle Gun"), a multi-shot gun mounted on a stand capable of (depending on which version) firing 9 rounds per minute. The "Puckle Gun" is sometimes considered the first machine gun and resembles a single-barrelled Gatling Gun. - Andrew Noble
Sir Andrew Noble, 1st Baronet (13 September 1831 - 22 October 1915) was a Scottish physicist noted for his work on ballistics and gunnery. Born at Greenock, he was educated at Edinburgh Academy and at the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich. He was commissioned in the Royal Artillery in 1849, promoted captain in 1855 and became secretary of the Royal Artillery Institution. - Dervla Murphy
Dervla Murphy (born November 28, 1931, Ireland) is a female touring cyclist and author of adventure travel books. - Baby Stafford
Baby Stafford is a musician and founder member of the band 'Baby Stafford'. He originally played in the Scottish rock band Gun in the late 1980s. Gun went on to support The Rolling Stones on tour. - Shawn Woolley
Shawn Woolley (1980 - November 22, 2001), of Wisconsin, was an avid player of the computer game "EverQuest", an MMORPG, who had been diagnosed with epilepsy, depression and schizoid personality disorder, and committed suicide at the age of 21. He shot himself and was found dead at his computer, which was still running "EverQuest". His mother, Elizabeth Woolley, describes Shawn's playing as addictive, … - Edme Mariotte
Edme Mariotte (c. 1620 - May 12, 1684) was a French physicist and priest. Mariotte is best known for his recognition in 1676 of Boyle's Law about the inverse relationship of volume and pressures in gases. In 1660 he had discovered the eye's blind spot. Mariotte spent most of his life at Dijon, where he was prior of St Martin sous Beaune. He was one of the first members of the French Academy of Sciences founded at Paris in 1666. - Harry Strauss
Harry "Pittsburgh Phil" Strauss (July 28, 1909 - June 12, 1941) was a prolific contract killer for Murder, Inc. in the 1930s. He killed over 30 men using a variety of methods; shooting, stabbing with ice picks, drowning, live burial and strangling rope. In one case, he reportedly considered using a fire axe on the wall of a theatre. Paradoxically, Strauss never carried a weapon unless he was about to make a hit. - Irvin Duguid
Irvin Duguid (born 18 December 1969, Aberchirder, Aberdeenshire) is a Scottish musician. He studied piano and violin at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow before going on to become keyboard player in the live line-up of Stiltskin, a rock band with the number 1 hit single "Inside" in the UK in 1994. Duguid went on to work with other Scottish acts such as Gun (later to change their name to g.u.n. in the wake of the Dunblane massacre) and then Fish, … - Ronnie Mauge
Ronald 'Ronnie' Mauge (born in Islington, London March 10 1969) is a retired Trinidad and Tobago footballer, He started his career as a trainee at Charlton Athletic before moving on to Fulham as a free transfer. Fifty seven appearances earned him a transfer to Bury in 1990 for 40,000 pounds. During this time he went on loan to Manchester City but only made one appearance as a substitute. - Phoebe Campbell
Phoebe Campbell (about 1847 -June 20, 1872) was a Canadian woman who was hanged for the murder of her husband. Campbell had alleged that on the morning of July 15, 1871, in Thorndale, Ontario, Middlesex County, Ontario, two black-faced men broke into George and Phoebe's log cabin home and brutally hacked George to death with an axe because he refused to hand over some money. They had attempted to use a gun which misfired. - Julius von Payer
Julius Johannes Ludovicus von Payer an Austro-Hungarian arctic explorer and an arctic landscape artist, was born September 2, 1841, in Schönau (Šanov) near Teplice, Bohemia (now Czech Republic). He died on August 19, 1915, in Veldes, Oberkrain (now Bled in Slovenia). Payer's father, Franz Anton Rudolf Payer, a retired officer, died when Julius was only fourteen. Payer attended k.k. cadet school in Lobzowa near Kraków (now Poland). - Gun Carlson
Gun Carlson is a politician in the Åland Islands, an autonomous and unilingually Swedish territory of Finland. *Member of the lagting (Åland parliament) 2003- *Minister of education and culture 1999-2003 *Minister of social affairs and environment 1995-1999 *Substitute member of government 1994-1995 - Alexander Lobanov
Alexander Pavlovich Lobanov (1924-April, 2003) was a Russian outsider artist known particularly for his detailed self-portraits, noted for their frequent inclusion of guns and for their self-aggrandizing nature. - Gun Hellsvik
Gun Birgitta Hellsvik is a politician for Moderate Party. She has served as Municipal Commissioner of Lund 1983-91, Minister of Justice 1991-94, member of the Riksdag, chairman of the Riksdag Committee on Justice 1994-2001, President of the Nordic Council 1999, Director General of the Swedish Patent and Registration Office since March 2001. Also chairman of the board of the University College of Borås since 2004. - Fernão Mendes Pinto
Fernão Mendes Pinto in 1614, an autobiographical work whose validity is nearly impossible to assess. In the course of his travels in the Middle and Far East, Pinto visited Ethiopia, the Arabian Sea, China (where he claimed to have been a forced laborer on the Great Wall), India and Japan. He claimed to have been among the first group of Europeans to visit Japan and initiate the Nanban trade period. He also claimed to have introduced the gun there in 1543. - Gun Buster
- Gun Lund
Gun Lund (b. 1943) is a choreographer and dancer based in Gothenburg, Sweden. She is one of the pioneers of Swedish contemporary dance, and has produced and performed over fifty original works since 1978. In 1987 she established the Atalante dance theatre, together with two other choreographers, Eva Ingemarsson and Gunilla Witt. Gun Lund is the director of the dance company E=mc2 Dance where she has made productions combining dance with natural sciences. - Hao Zhihua
Hao Zhihua started her wushu training at the age of nine at the Beijing Sports Academy under the instruction of Wu Bin, director of the Beijing Institute for Wushu Research and a pioneer of modern wushu in China. For fifteen years she competed in China as a member of the world-renowned Beijing Wushu Team, winning the title of National All-Around Champion three years in a row. - Daniel Santbech
Daniel Santbech (fl. 1561) was a Dutch mathematician and astronomer. He adopted the Latinized name of Noviomagus, possibly suggesting that he came from the town of Nijmegen, called "Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum" by the Romans. In 1561, Santbech compiled a collected edition of Regiomontanus' "De triangulis planis et sphaericis libri quinque" (first published in 1533) and "Compositio tabularum sinum recto", … - Samuel Reeves Keesler
Samuel Reeves Keesler, Jr.(b. Greenwood, Mississippi, April 11 1896 - d. October 9 1918) was a World War I American army hero. He was an outstanding student leader and athlete in high school and at Davidson College in North Carolina. Keesler entered the U.S. Army on May 13 1917. He was commissioned on August 15, and he received training as an aerial observer at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, before sailing for France in March 1918. - Cedric "k-Ci" Hailey
K-Ci (born Cedric Renard Hailey on September 2, 1969 in Charlotte, North Carolina) is an R&B/soul singer and songwriter, one-half of the duo K-Ci and JoJo and one-quarter of the R&B quartet Jodeci. He is the older brother of fellow Jodeci and K-Ci and JoJo member Joel "Jo-Jo" Hailey. He is also the older half-brother of neo-soul singer Calvin Richardson and cousin of R&B singer Dave Hollister and American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino. - Ole Herman Johannes Krag
Ole Herman Johannes Krag was a Norwegian gun designer. He designed a wide range of firearms during his lifetime, but only two – the Krag-Petersson and the Krag-Jørgensen – were adopted by any armed forces. Less than 1,000 Krag-Petersson rifles were made for the Royal Norwegian Navy, while several hundreds of thousands Krag-Jørgensen rifles were made for the Danish, Norwegian and US armies. Ole H J Krag was born in Vågå, Norway. - Louis-Émile Bertin
Louis-Émile Bertin was a French naval engineer, one of the foremost of his time, and a proponent of the "Jeune Ecole" philosophy of using light, but powerfully armed warships instead of large battleships. - Captain John H. Hall
John H. Hall (1781 - 1841) was the inventor of the M1819 Hall breech-loading rifle, and a mass production innovator. - Aleksei Shein
Aleksei Semyonovich Shein, Russian commander and statesman, the first Russian Generalissimus, boyar, grandson of Mikhail Shein. As a boy, Shein attended the execution of Stepan Razin. Later in his life, he would participate in the coronation ceremony of Peter I and Ivan V. Sophia Alekseyevna was very fond of Shein and granted him the title of a boyar. Shein was a military commander in Tobolsk and Kursk in 1680 - 1684. - Gustáv Wendrinský
Gustáv Wendrinský was an Slovak SS-Oberscharführer. He destroyed 41 soviet tanks, which was the maximum number of tank demolitions with one antitank gun during World War Two. Two of them he destroyed in close combat with Panzerfaust. - Veeru Devgan
Veeru Devgan is the father of actor Ajay Devgan and director Anil Devgan He is also the father-In-Law of actress Kajol. He is a stunt director and choreographer who has been working in the film industry since the 1970s. He tried his hand at directing and made the film "Hindustan Ki Kasam" in 1999 which flopped. - Abraham Jennison
Abraham Jennison (born c. 1804, date of death unknown) was a convict transported to Western Australia. His significance mainly lies in the fact that one of his letters home to family in England is extant. Nothing is known of Abraham Jennison's early life, but in July 1848 he was 44 years old, married with ten children, and working as a blacksmith. In that month he and two companions were convicted of stealing items including a gun and a pig, …
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