- Johanna Spyri
Johanna Spyri (June 12, 1827 - July 7, 1901) was an author of children's stories, and is best known for "Heidi". Born Johanna Louise Heusser in the rural area of Hirzel, Switzerland, as a child she spent several summers in the area around Chur in Graubünden, the setting she later would use in her novels
- Arthur Treacher
Arthur Veary Treacher (July 23, 1894 - December 14, 1975) was an actor born in Brighton, East Sussex, England. He was a veteran of World War I. After the war he established a stage career and in 1928 he went to America as part of a musical-comedy revue called "Great Temptations". He began his film career in the 1930s, which included a role in two different Shirley Temple films: "Heidi" and "The Little Princess".
- Jean Hersholt
Jean Hersholt (July 12, 1886 - June 2, 1956) was a Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Award-winning Danish actor who lived in the United States. Born in Copenhagen, Denmark to a stage family, Hersholt went on to become a well-known actor in the United States. According to the Internet Movie Database, he appeared in 140 films and directed four. His first two films were made in Germany in 1906.
- Thomas Beck
Thomas Beck (December 29, 1909 - September 23, 1995), was an actor during the mid to late 1930s. Beck was featured in 28 films in his carrier with his most notable roles being in several Charlie Chan films: Charlie Chan in Paris (1935), Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935), Charlie Chan at the Race Track (1936), and Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936). He also played opposite of Shirley Temple in the 1937 film Heidi as Pastor Schultz. He is buried in Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore, …
- Allan Dwan
Allan Dwan (April 3, 1885 - December 28, 1981) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter. Born Joseph Aloysius Dwan in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, his family moved to the United States when he was eleven years of age. At university, he trained as an engineer and began working for a lighting company in Chicago.
- Mary Nash
Mary Nash, born Mary Ryan on August 15, 1885 in Troy, New York to parents James H. and Ellen Ryan, was an American actor. She died at home on December 3, 1976 in Brentwood, California. She was educated at the Convent of St. Anne in Montreal and trained for acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She was sister to theater actor and comedian Florence Nash. In 1918 she was married to theater actor, writer and director José Ruben (b. December 8, 1888, …
- Ramona Pringle
Ramona Pringle is a Canadian actress and television host. Born in Toronto, she was named after the Ramones by her punk rock-loving parents. Ramona started her career doing a series of international commercials for Ricola, where she played Heidi which quickly developed a cult following online, and made Ramona instantly recognizable as "The Ricola Girl". Since then, Ramona has graduated from York University in Toronto, …
- Yoichi Kotabe
Yōichi Kotabe （Born September 15, 1936 in Taiwan Taipei City, and went back to Japan after World War II） is a Japanese mangaka and animator, who has worked with Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki. He belongs to Nintendo Co., Ltd., and he is a lecturer at Tokyo designer academy cartoon film course （東京デザイナー学院アニメーション科） now. His wife is Reiko Okuyama of an animator / copperplate engraving, …
- Heidi Klum
Heidi Klum (born June 1, 1973) is an actress, TV presenter, fashion designer, television producer and singer hailing from Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany.
- Julien Josephson
Julien Josephson (October 24 1881 - April 14 1959) was an American motion picture screenwriter. His career spanned between 1914 and 1943. He was a native of Roseburg, Oregon. Josephson was well-known for his early silent movie adaptions of theatrical works such as Oscar Wilde's "Lady Windemere's Fan" (1925) and Crane Wilbur's "The Bat" (1926). He was nominated for an Academy Award for his work on George Arliss' "Disraeli" (1929).
- Arthur C. Miller
Arthur Charles Miller (July 8, 1895 - July 13, 1970) was an acclaimed American cinematographer and a three-time Academy Award winner. Born in Roslyn, New York, Arthur Miller began his career at the age of 13, working as an assistant to filmmaker Fred J. Balshofer. The two remained lifelong friends and in 1967 co-wrote the book about the early days of film titled "Two Reels and a Crank".
- Rudolf Stussi
Rudolf Stussi is a Swiss-born artist who came to Canada in 1967 to attend Carlton University. Stussi also studied and taught at the Ontario College of Art, graduating in 1978. From 1988 to 1991 he was president of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour (CSPWC). Rudolf was involved in animation with Toronto based Nelvana. He directed the award winning series "Little Bear" and "Rolie-Polie-Olie" and the film "Heidi".
- Frank Weatherwax
Frank Weatherwax (June 23, 1902 - December 17, 1991) was an American actor and animal trainer. He is best remembered with his brother Rudd Weatherwax for their famous collie, Pal, the dog who became famous as Lassie in the 1943 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film "Lassie Come Home". Weatherwax also trained the original Asta for " The Thin Man", a film produced in 1934. This movie had five sequels and an accompanying television show.
- Elhedi Ben Salem
Was the lover of Rainer Werner Fassbinder during the early 1970s and acted in several of his films.
- Heidi MacDonald
Heidi MacDonald is a US writer and editor in the field of comics based in New York City, NY. Currently the co-editor of "PW Comics Week" for "Publishers Weekly", she also writes a blog about comics called "The Beat" and does the monthly column "Hey Kids! Comics!" for "Comics Buyer's Guide". She is a former editor for DC Comics' Vertigo imprint and the Disney Magazine.
- Heidi Fleiss
Heidi Lynne Fleiss (born December 30 1965), known as the "Hollywood Madam", is a former American madam. She was convicted in connection with her prostitution ring with charges including pandering and tax evasion. Her ring had numerous famous and wealthy clients. She was sentenced to 37 months in prison for tax evasion, (pandering charges were dropped) but served just 21. Her father, Doctor Paul M. Fleiss is a famous Intactivist (one who opposes circumcision).
- Heidi Mueller
Heidi Jo Mueller (born January 29, 1982 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American actress. She currently portrays the role of Kay Bennett on the NBC daytime soap opera "Passions" and was formerly engaged to fellow actor Matthew Lawrence. Prior to "Passions", Mueller appeared alongside her father Don Mueller and her siblings on the NBC reality TV series "Who Wants to Marry My Dad?". Heidi dated actor Mario Lopez for a period of time in 2006.
- Heidi Harley
Heidi B. Harley (born September 26, 1969) is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. She is the author or coauthor of three books, and has several papers published on formal syntactic theory, morphology, and lexical semantics. She was born in Oregon, but was raised in St. John's, Newfoundland. She is one of the main researchers working in the theory of Distributed morphology.
- Heidi Zurbriggen
Heidi Andenmatten-Zurbriggen (born 16 March 1967) is a former Swiss alpine skier and sister of Pirmin Zurbriggen.
- Heidi von Gunden
Heidi C. Von Gunden is a musicologist and Associate Professor of Composition-Theory at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She has written books on the music of Ben Johnston, Pauline Oliveros, Lou Harrison, and Vivian Fine. The books about Johnston’s and Harrison’s music are detailed studies about the composers’ use of just intonation, and the books about Oliveros and Fine contain analyses of their music and examine the issues of women composers.
- Heidi Chu
Heidi CHU Hoi Ting is the 2nd runner-up and winner of Miss International Goodwill of the 2001 Miss Hong Kong contest. She is currently a presenter/actress of TVB television company, which is also her management agent from 2005. She is also a guest host for MetroFinance radio station. She also works as MC (Master of Ceremony) for various types of functions such as press conferences and promotion activities at shopping malls (which are good chance to meet her in real person).
- Heidi Kabel
Heidi Kabel (born August 27, 1914 in Hamburg as "Heidi Bertha Auguste Maler") was a German musician and actress. The most roles she playes on stage at the Ohnsorg-Theater in Hamburg.
- Heidi Puurula
Heidi Susanna Puurula (born Heidi Vahakallio, October 13, 1971 in Helsinki) is a Finnish singer and lyricist. She has sung in band Aikakone (Finnish for "time machine") under the name Vera, and before that in a band called Vadelmajalat (Finnish for "raspberry feet"). In the chorus of Tommy Tabermann single album "Kiitti Vitusti" (published in May 2004) she sings backing vocals.
- Heidi Cortez
Heidi Cortez (born March 11, 1981 in Southern California) is an American model, writer, and radio host. Cortez decided at a young age that she wanted to be a model and act, and has made that her lifetime ambition. Heidi has appeared on numerous television and radio commercials and was a co-host on ESPN's "The XTra Point Show" for two years as well as a professional boxing "ring girl".
- Heidi Montag
Heidi Montag (born September 15, 1986), a cast member from the MTV reality television show "The Hills", is an event planner and an aspiring singer and actress.
- Heidi Julavits
Heidi Julavits is an American author and co-editor of "The Believer" magazine. She has been published in "Esquire", "Story", "Zoetrope All-Story", and "McSweeney’s Quarterly". Her novels include "The Mineral Palace" (2000), "The Effect of Living Backwards" (2003), and "The Uses of Enchantment" (2006).
- Heidi Collins
Heidi Collins is a correspondent and anchor on CNN. Collins co-anchors CNN Newsroom with Tony Harris from 9 AM to 12 noon EST on weekdays and is an occasional substitute anchor for several of CNN's prime time programs. Collins joined CNN in 2002, originally anchoring on CNN Headline News. Eventually, Collins moved up to "American Morning", the network's morning news program, where she served as news reader and substitute co-anchor.
- Heidi Neumark
Heidi Neumark (born March, 9 1954) is the author of the book "Breathing Space: A Spiritual Journey in the South Bronx" (Beacon Press). She grew up in Summit, NJ and now lives on the Upper West Side with her husband Gregorio Orellano and their two children: Ana Orellano, who attends Wheelock College, and Hans Orellano, who attends Fordham Preparatory School.
- Heidi Sorenson
Heidi Sorenson (born August 5, 1960 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Danish-Canadian model and actress. She was "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month for its July 1981 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ken Marcus. Heidi spend some of her childhood in Denmark before her family moved back to British Columbia. She went to Los Angeles and ended up appearing in several movies and TV shows following her Playmate layout.
- Heidi Berry
Heidi Berry is an American singer-songwriter. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Berry's mother was a jazz singer with French-Canadian roots, and her father was an actor. The family moved to London in the early 1970s. Introduced to Creation Records by Pete Astor in 1987, Berry recorded "Firefly", a six-song mini-album. A full-length album "Below the Waves" followed in 1989. In 1991, Ivo Watts-Russell asked Berry to sing on the third album by This Mortal Coil, …
- Heidi Lee Morgan
Heidi Lee Morgan, the daughter of Lester Morgan, is a retired American professional wrestler who competed in the World Wrestling Federation, International World Class Championship Wrestling, the Ladies Pro Wrestling Association and the National Wrestling Federation, most facing the NWF Woman's Champion Wendi Richter in a steel cage match in May 1987. Trained by The Fabulous Moolah, Wolfgang Von Heller and Johnny Rodz, …
- Heidi Alice Voight
Heidi Alice Voight (born June 24 1982) is Miss Connecticut 2006. Voight is a native of Milford who now resides in New Haven, Connecticut. She was crowned on her fourth attempt at the crown on June 24 2006, which coincidentally was also her 24th birthday. Her issue of concern as Miss Connecticut 2006 is "Educate, Empower, Eradicate: Stop The Violence", …
- Heidi Wyss
Heidi Wyss is a Swiss author born (1975) in Geneva. She was educated there and in the UK. She has worked as an histologist and technical writer. Her first novel Gormglaith (2007) is radical feminist separatist, hard science fiction set in a plausible future.
- Heidi Strobel
Heidi Strobel (born October 29, 1978, Bethesda, Maryland) was a contestant on season six of the American reality television show "Survivor: The Amazon". She placed fifth, lasting thirty-six days. During an endurance challenge, she and fellow contestant Jenna Morasca stripped off their clothing in exchange for peanut butter and Oreo cookies. The two would later appear in the August 2003 edition of Playboy magazine.
- Heidi Vanderveer
Heidi VanDerveer is a basketball coach in the WNBA, currently an assistant with the Seattle Storm. VanDerveer served as the Minnesota Lynx second head coach in 2002 after Brian Agler was fired mid-season. She is the younger sister of Tara VanDerveer, the longtime head coach of the Stanford University's women's basketball team.
- Heidi Grande Røys
Heidi Grande Røys is a Norwegian politician for the Socialist Left Party. She was Minister of Modernisation in 2005, and has been Minister of Government Administration and Reform since 2006 in the second cabinet Stoltenberg.
- Heidi Pelttari
Heidi Pelttari is a Finnish hockey player who plays for Ilves Tampere and the Finnish national team on Winter Olympics 2006.
- Heidi Lucas
Heidi Lucas was born on June 3, 1977 (Unconfirmed). She is of Czechoslovakian/Chinese ancestry. She was an actress during the 1990s. She is well-known for her role as Dina Alexander on "Salute your Shorts" which ran from 1991-1992. She was age 14-15 during the show's run. She is also known for her role as Noriko "Max" Matsuda in the 1996 sci-fi series Hypernauts.
- Heidi Biebl
Heidi Biebl (born February 17 1941). Is a former German Alpine skier. She won gold medal in the downhill at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley just three days after her 19th birthday and then she became the games youngest gold medal winner
- Heidi Choat
Heidi Choat (b. circa 1971) is a former Australian primary school teacher who was convicted in August 1999 of maintaining a sexual relationship with one of her students. Choat was a teacher at a government primary school in central Queensland, where she seduced a 12-year-old boy who was one of her pupils at the school and maintained a sexual relationship with him between August 1998 and February 1999. She had sex with the boy on five occasions during this time, …