- Brandon Iron
Brandon Iron (born July 14, 1968) is a pornographic actor and director. Iron was born in in Alberta, Canada. He now lives and works in California. Iron is the creator of two rough sex video franchises, Slap Happy and I Love it Rough. He is well known in the porn world for having an extremely large penis, particularly his very impressive girth, that some of his co-stars have difficulty taking in oral scenes. Iron directed many movies for Platinum X Pictures. - John Martin
John Martin, was an oceanographer Born in Old Lyme, Connecticut, he is best known for his research on the role of iron as a phytoplankton micronutrient, and its significance for so-called "High-Nutrient, Low Chlorophyll" regions of the oceans. He is also known for advocating the use of iron fertilization to enhance oceanic primary production to act as a sink for fossil fuel carbon dioxide. John Martin died from prostate cancer at the age of 58. - Cat Cora
Cat Cora 's culinary aspirations began at an early age, and by 15, she had developed a business plan for her own restaurant. In 2005, she made television history on Food Network's Iron Chef America as the first and only female Iron Chef, and in November 2006 Bon Appetit Magazine bestowed her with their Teacher of the Year Award, an award she calls, "the greatest recognition she could achieve as a chef". - Jan Akkerman
Jan Akkerman (born 24 December 1946) is a Dutch guitarist. Jan Akkerman is a distinctive guitarist, constantly experimenting with new equipment and guitars. Akkerman's distinctive guitar sound is characterised by his pioneering use of volume swells which produce a smooth, fluty, sustained note. He first reached world acclaim in the 1970s when he was seen as the core of the Dutch rock band "Focus" together with Thijs van Leer. - Masaharu Morimoto
Masaharu Morimoto is a well-known Japanese chef, best-known as the third (and last) Iron Chef Japanese on the TV cooking show "Iron Chef", and an Iron Chef on its spinoff, "Iron Chef America". Morimoto's costume on "Iron Chef" is silver with red trim and a picture on the back of Japanese and American flags tied together in a sheaf, while on "Iron Chef America" he dons the standard blue Iron Chef outfit with white trim. - Mike Keenan
Michael Edward Keenan (born October 21 1949 in Bowmanville, Ontario) is the current head coach of the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League, and former General Manager of the Florida Panthers. He is 5'11" and weighs 198lb's. Keenan was a player for the St. Lawrence University Skating Saints (1969-72), the University of Toronto (1972-73), the Roanoke-Valley Rebels (1973-74), and his native Whitby Warriors (1976-77). - John Schwartz
John Schwartz (October 27, 1793-June 20, 1860) was an Anti-Lecompton Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. John Schwartz was born in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, the son of Philip Michael Schwartz and Mary Margaret Schlosser. He received a limited schooling, and at the age of ten years was apprenticed to a merchant in Reading, Pennsylvania. He became a partner at the expiration of his apprenticeship. - Philip Simmons
Philip Simmons, b. June 9, 1912 is an artisan of Charleston, South Carolina who has specialized in ornamental iron since 1938. After an apprenticeship with Peter Simmons, a blacksmith on Calhoun Street, he has had a long career, fashioning more than five hundred decorative pieces of ornamental wrought iron: gates, fences, balconies, and window grills. Many of the works are on historical properties. - Flemming Rasmussen
Flemming 'Razz' Rasmussen (born in Denmark in 1958) is an engineer, producer and owner and founder of Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was the engineer and producer of heavy metal act Metallica's albums "Ride the Lightning" (1984), "Master of Puppets" (1986) and "...And Justice for All" (1988), sharing the production credits with the band. While he received critical acclaim for the first two of those albums, … - George Szirtes
George Szirtes [pronounced:Sirtesh] (born 1948) is a Hungarian-born poet, writing in English, as well as a translator from the Hungarian language into English. He has lived in the United Kingdom for most of his life. - Enoch Pratt
Enoch Pratt (1808 - 1896) was an American businessman in Baltimore, a Unitarian, and a philanthropist. Born in North Middleborough, Massachusetts, and educated at the Bridgewater Academy there, Enoch Pratt clerked in a Boston hardware firm before moving to Baltimore in 1831 to launch his own wholesale hardware business on South Charles Street. In 1851 Pratt and his partner invested in western Maryland coal mines and iron yards in the Baltimore neighborhood of Canton. - Albert Fert
Albert Fert is a French physicist and one of the discoverers of the Giant magnetoresistive effect which brought about a breakthrough in gigabyte hard disks. He is currently professor at University Paris-Sud in Orsay and scientific director of the Unité mixte de physique CNRS/Thales. - Henry Cort
Henry Cort (1740 - 1800) was an English ironmaster. During the Industrial Revolution in England, Cort began refining iron from pig iron to wrought iron using innovative production systems. In 1782 he patented the puddling process for refining iron ore. The The Henry Cort Community College bears his name, located in the large town of Fareham, south of Funtley. - Charles Crocker
Charles Crocker (September 16 1822 - June 14 1888) was born in Troy, New York to a modest family. When he was fourteen he moved to a farm in Iowa, Crocker soon became independent, working on several farms, a sawmill, and at an iron forge. In 1845 he founded a small, independent iron forge of his own. After hearing of the California Gold Rush, Crocker led a party of Forty-niners overland to the Pacific coast, and arrived in 1850. - Abraham Darby III
Abraham Darby III (1750 - 1791) was an English ironmaster and Quaker. He was the third Abraham Darby in three generations of an English Quaker family that played a role in the Industrial Revolution. He carried on his family's tradition of improving the art of smelting iron. He built the largest cast iron structure of his era: a bridge over the Severn near the small prinicipality of Coalbrookdale. The bridge caused the village of Ironbridge, Shropshire to grow up around it, … - James Baird
James Baird (born 1802 in Old Monkland (North Lanarkshire, Scotland); died 1876 in Cambusdoon) was an industrialist. He was the fourth of the eight sons (and two daughters) of Alexander Baird and Jean Moffat. Baird was active in the iron processing industry. He was also the founder of the Baird Lectureship, in vindication of Scottish orthodoxy. From 1851 to 1857, he was an elected Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for the Falkirk Burghs. - Norman Hall
Norman Hall (November 17, 1829-September 29, 1917) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Norman Hall was born on the Muncy Farms, near Halls Station, Pennsylvania. He was graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 1847. He was engaged in the iron business. Hall was elected as a Democrat to the Fiftieth Congress. He was engaged in banking in Sharon, Pennsylvania. - James Small
James Small (1730, Dalkeith, Midlothian - 1793) was a Scottish inventor instrumental in the invention of the modern-style iron swing plough in 1784. Source: Gazetteer for Scotland - John Roebuck
John Roebuck (1718 - July 17, 1794) was an English inventor, who played an important role in the Industrial Revolution. He was born at Sheffield, where his father had a prosperous manufacturing business. After attending the grammar school at Sheffield and Dr Philip Doddridge's academy at Northampton, he studied medicine at Edinburgh, where he developed a taste for chemistry from the lectures of William Cullen and Joseph Black. - Rona Munro
Rona Munro is a prize-winning Scottish writer. She has written plays for theatre, radio, and television; was the author of the screenplay of Ken Loach's "Ladybird, Ladybird" and co-author of "Aimée & Jaguar" by German director Max Färberböck. Munro is also known for being the author of the last classic "Doctor Who" serial to air, "Survival" (1989). She later novelised this serial for Target Books. - Che Arthur
Che Arthur is a singer/songwriter who currently resides in Austin, Texas. He is also a sound engineer/tour manager who has worked on tours with such bands as Minus the Bear, Pelican, Don Caballero, Trans Am, Thursday, Cursive, The Black Heart Procession, Jets to Brazil,and many more. Born in Mobile, Alabama, Arthur played guitar, keyboards, bass, and drums in numerous Southern U.S. touring rock bands. - James Keir
James Keir (20 September 1735 - 1820), chemist, geologist, industrialist and inventor, was born in Stirlingshire, Scotland. He was a member of the Lunar Society. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh where he met Erasmus Darwin. He joined the army and was commissioned into the 61st Regiment (now the Gloucestershire Regiment) at the age of 22, serving in the West Indies and rising to the rank of Captain before resigning his commission in 1768. - Harry Brearley
Harry Brearley (February 18, 1871 - August 12,1948) was the inventor of "rustless steel" (later to be called "stainless steel"). He was born in Sheffield, England. - Guan Zhong
Guan Zhong (管仲) (born 725 BC, died in 645 BC) was a politician in the Spring and Autumn Period. His given name was "Yíwú" (夷吾). "Zhong" was his courtesy name. Recommended by Bao Shuya, he was appointed Prime Minister by Duke Huan of Qi in 685 BC. Guan Zhong modernized the state of "Qi" by starting multiple reforms. Politically, he centralized power and divided the state into different villages, … - James Beaumont Neilson
James Beaumont Neilson (June 22, 1792 - January 18, 1865) is a Scottish inventor whose hot-blast process greatly increased the efficiency of smelting iron. The son of an engineer, he was born in Shettleston and worked his way up to a position as foreman of the Glasgow Gasworks in 1817, a position he would hold for 40 years. While trying to solve a problem with a blast furnace at Wilsontown Ironworks, … - Alexander Abramov
Alexander Abramov (Alexander Grigoryevich Abramov) (born 1959) is a former scientist who became an industrial magnate as head of EvrazHolding, Russia's largest steel producer. Beginning in 1998, he has amassed the largest steel and iron empire in Russia, which employs 125,000 people, controls about 22 percent of the country's total steel output and has an annual turnover of USD$2 billion. - Sidney Gilchrist Thomas
Sidney Gilchrist Thomas (April 16, 1850 - February 1, 1885) was an English inventor. Thomas was born at Canonbury, London and was educated at Dulwich College.. His father, a Welshman, was in the civil service, and his mother was the daughter of the Rev. James Gilchrist. His father's death left his family with a considerably reduced income, he gave up his original idea of becoming a doctor and obtained an appointment as a police court clerk, which he held till May 1879. - Nevin S. Scrimshaw
Dr. Nevin S. Scrimshaw (born 1918) is a food scientist and Institute Professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Scrimshaw was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His revolutionary accomplishments over six decades in fighting protein, iodine, and iron deficiencies, developing nutritional supplements, educating generations of experts, … - Abraham Darby II
Abraham Darby II (1711 - 1763) was the second Abraham Darby in three generations of an English Quaker family that played a role in the Industrial Revolution. He followed in his father's footsteps at the Darby foundry in Coalbrookdale, refining techniques for producing wrought iron from pig iron and producing the iron to replace the more expensive brass cylinders used in Thomas Newcomen's steam engines. - Seth Boyden
Seth Boyden (November 17, 1788 - March 31, 1870) was an American inventor. He was the brother of Uriah A. Boyden. A New England native (born in Foxboro, Massachusetts) who moved to Newark, New Jersey, Boyden perfected the process for making patent leather, created malleable iron, invented a nail-making machine, and built his own steamboat. He is also credited with having invented a cut off switch for steam engines and a method for producing zinc from ore. - John Cockerill
John Cockerill (August 3, 1790 - June 9, 1840) was a British entrepreneur, the founder of the company Cockerill-Sambre. He was born at Haslingden, in England, and followed in the footsteps of his father, William Cockerill, in the construction of machines to card and spin wool. During a depression in the machine building business, in 1797 he moved to continental Europe with his father William. Despite legislation preventing the export of spinning technology, … - D. F. Lewis
D. F. Lewis (born January 18, 1948) is an English author who has had approximately 1,500 short fictions published in print from 1986 to 2000, some in hard-to-find outlets and others in literary journals (eg: "Stand", "Iron", "Orbis", "Panurge", "London Magazine", etc.) and professional book anthologies. He currently acts as editor and publisher of the "Nemonymous" "megazanthus" of short fiction. - Vannoccio Biringuccio
Vannoccio Biringuccio, sometimes spelt Vannocio Biringuccio, (1480-1539) was an Italian metallurgist. He is best known for his manual on metalworking, "De la pirotechnia", published in 1540. Biringuccio is considered by some as the father of the foundry industry as "De la pirotechnia" is the first written account of proper foundry practice. In his career he was in charge of an iron mine near Siena, and also in charge of its mint and arsenal. - Charles Newbold
Charles Newbold was an American blacksmith born in 1780 in Chesterfield, New Jersey. On June 26, 1797, Newbold received the first patent for a cast iron plow. However, he was unable to sell his plow because many farmers feared that the iron in it would poison the soil. On April 1, 1807, David Peacock was issued a patent for a three-piece iron plow (Newbold's plow was cast in one piece). Newbold then sued Peacock for patent infringement and won $1500. - Peter Forney
Peter Forney (1756 - 1834) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born near Lincolnton, North Carolina, April 21, … - George Tryon
Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon, KCB (4 January 1832- 22 June 1893) was a British admiral who died when his flagship HMS "Victoria" collided with HMS "Camperdown" during manoeuvres off Tripoli, Lebanon. Born at Bulwick Park, Northamptonshire, England and educated at Eton he entered the Royal Navy in 1848 as a cadet. After a period serving on the North American station, he saw action in the Crimean War on "Vengeance" and later ashore in the Naval Brigade. - Robert Plot
Robert Plot (13 December 1640-April 30 1696) was an English naturalist, first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. Born in Borden, Kent, Plot is known for looking for natural curiosities in several English counties, … - James W. Brown
James W. Brown (July 14, 1844-October 23, 1909) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. James W. Brown (son-in-law of Thomas Marshall Howe) was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He worked in the in the iron and steel industry and served as vice president of the Crucible Steel Company. He was also engaged in banking and was trustee of the Dollar Savings Bank. Brown was elected as an Independent Republican to the Fifty-eighth Congress. - Henry Clifton Sorby
Henry Clifton Sorby (May 10, 1826 - March 9, 1908), English microscopist and geologist, was born at Woodbourne near Sheffield in Yorkshire. He attended Sheffield Collegiate School. He early developed an interest in natural science, and one of his first papers related to the excavation of valleys in Yorkshire. He subsequently dealt with the physical geography of former geological periods, with the wave-structure in certain stratified rocks, and the origin of slaty cleavage. - Ouyang Ziyuan
Ouyang Ziyuan, born in 1935, Ji'an, Jiangxi Province, People's Republic of China, is a cosmochemist and geochemist, Research professor, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. With a degree in geology and a doctorate in mineral deposit and geochemistry, he spent many years in deep mines. He later studied nuclear physics and worked in a particle accelerator laboratory. Thus, he put forward the hypothesis of formation of iron meteorites, …
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