- Johnny Depp
John Christopher Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is a three-time Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe- and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning American actor, best known for his frequent portrayals of offbeat and eccentric characters such as the title character in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Ichabod Crane in the film adaptation of Sleepy Hollow. - Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 - August 16, 1977), was an American singer, musician and actor. He is often known simply as Elvis; also "The King of Rock 'n' Roll", or simply "The King". Presley began his career as one of the first performers of rockabilly, an uptempo fusion of country and rhythm and blues with a strong back beat. His novel versions of existing songs, mixing 'black' and 'white' sounds, … - Nicole Scherzinger
Nicole Elikolani Prescovia Scherzinger (also known as Nicole Kea) (born June 29, 1978), is an American singer, dancer, songwriter and occasional actress best known for her work as the lead vocalist for the Pussycat Dolls. - Nick Lachey
Nicholas Scott Lachey (born November 9, 1973) is an American pop singer and actor who rose to fame in the late-1990s as a writer and joint lead-vocalist along with founding member Jeff Timmons of the boy-band, 98 Degrees. The group also included Lachey's brother Drew Lachey and classmate Justin Jeffre. They have sold over ten million records worldwide and charted top-forty singles. - Ashley Judd
Ashley Judd (born Ashley Tyler Ciminella on April 19, 1968) is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her leading roles in a series of late 1990s and early 2000s thrillers, including "Kiss the Girls", "Double Jeopardy" and "High Crimes". - Kelly Perdew
Kelly Crawford Perdew (born January 29,1967) of Carlsbad, California was the winner of the second season of "The Apprentice". - Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali (born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. on January 17, 1942) is a retired American boxer and former three-time World Heavyweight Champion and winner of an Olympic gold medal. In 1999, Ali was crowned "Sportsman of the Century" by "Sports Illustrated" and the BBC. Ali was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He was named after his father, Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr., who was named for the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Clay. - Edgar Cayce
Edgar Cayce (March 18, 1877 - January 3, 1945) was an American who claimed psychic abilities. He claimed an ability to channel answers to questions on subjects such as health, astrology, reincarnation, and Atlantis while in a self-induced trance. Although Cayce lived before the emergence of the New Age movement, he remains a major influence on its teachings. - Billy Ray Cyrus
Billy Ray Cyrus (born August 25, 1961 in Flatwoods, Kentucky) is an American country singer, and actor, who is best known for his hit single "Achy Breaky Heart" (1992). He is also a multi-platinum selling recording artist, with one number one country single and eight top-ten singles. From 2001 to 2004, he starred in the television series "Doc", a show about a doctor from the ranch adjusting to the large city. - Bear Bryant
Paul William "Bear" Bryant was an American college football coach. He was best known as the longtime head coach of the University of Alabama football team, and is the namesake of the Paul W. Bryant Museum. - Jamaal Magloire
Jamaal Dane Magloire (born May 21 1978 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian professional basketball player, currently with the New Jersey Nets of the National Basketball Association. He attended Eastern Commerce Collegiate Institute. - Jillian Hall
Jillian Fletcher (born September 6, 1980) is an American professional wrestler who currently performs for World Wrestling Entertainment on its "RAW" brand under the ring name Jillian Hall. - Tara Conner
Tara Elizabeth Conner (born on 18 December 1985 in Dallas, Texas) is a beauty queen who is Miss USA 2006 and has also competed in the Miss Teen USA and Miss Universe pageants. Apart from her role as Miss USA, Conner has been employed as a model and waitress. She was a featured model on the HDNet series "Bikini Destinations" in 2004, posing for the cameras in Lake Tahoe. She has held the titles Miss Kentucky Teen USA 2002, Miss Kentucky USA 2006 and Miss USA 2006. - Sam Champion
Sam Champion (born August 1961) is the weather anchor of ABC's "Good Morning America" and weather editor of ABC News. He was also a veteran weatherman for WABC-TV's "Eyewitness News" in the New York City media market for 17 years, and has continued to do fill-in work on WABC-TV since taking the network job full-time. Champion holds a B.A. in broadcast news from Eastern Kentucky University, where he interned at WKYT-TV in Lexington, Kentucky. - Keith Bogans
Keith Ramon Bogans (born May 12 1980 in Washington, D.C.) is a professional basketball player for the Orlando Magic in the National Basketball Association. - Diane Sawyer
Lila Diane Sawyer is a television journalist for the U.S. network ABC News and co-anchor of ABC's "Good Morning America," along with Robin Roberts. In 2001 she was named one of the 30 most powerful women in America by "Ladies Home Journal". - Buckethead
Buckethead (born Brian Carroll in 1969), is an American guitarist and composer. He is known for wearing a white plastic mask and Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket, a persona which Carroll created in order to emphasize his music over his personal identity. He is a prolific composer, having released 20 solo albums and performed on 33 more. His music spans a wide variety of genres including thrash metal, funk, electronica, jazz and avant-garde. - Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter Stockton Thompson was an American journalist and author. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism, a style of reporting in which the reporters involve themselves in the action to such a degree that they become the central figure of the story itself. - Kara Drew
Kara Elizabeth Drew (born July 15, 1975) is an American professional wrestler and valet currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment performing on its "SmackDown!" brand as Cherry. - Ralph Steadman
Ralph Steadman (born Wallasey, May 15, 1936) is a British cartoonist and caricaturist. Born in Wallasey, Cheshire, and brought up in Towyn, North Wales, Steadman attended Ysgol Emrys Ap Iwan (high school), Abergele, East Ham Technical College and the London College of Printing and Graphic Arts during the 1960s, doing freelance work for "Punch, Private Eye," the "Daily Telegraph," the "New York Times" and "Rolling Stone" during this time. - Lisa Sparxxx
Lisa Sparxxx (born October 6, 1976 in Kentucky) is the pseudonym of an American pornographic film actress. Before she entered the adult entertainment industry, Sparxx was a college student, and later earned a Master of Arts degree in Multimedia with a minor in Business at the University of Kentucky. To pay her way through university, she worked in and managed a hair salon. Her first film was "Dirtier Debutants #4" with Ed Powers. She was also a host for KSEX Radio. - Mike Bibby
Michael (Mike) Bibby (born May 13, 1978 in Cherry Hill, New Jersey) is an American professional basketball point guard for the NBA's Sacramento Kings, and the son of former NBA and UCLA player and former USC basketball coach and current Philadelphia 76ers assistant coach Henry Bibby. He is also the nephew of former Major League Baseball player Jim Bibby. Bibby is a native of Phoenix, Arizona (or Cherry Hill, New Jersey) and attended Shadow Mountain High School. - Shaun Alexander
Shaun Alexander (born August 30, 1977 in Florence, Kentucky) is an American football player in the National Football League. He currently is the starting running back for the Seattle Seahawks. - Aaron Cook
Aaron Lane Cook (born February 8, 1979 in Fort Campbell, Kentucky) is a right-handed Major League Baseball pitcher currently playing for the Colorado Rockies. He has played with the Rockies for his entire Major League career, spanning from 2002 onwards. Cook saw his 2004 season come to an abrupt end when it was discovered that he suffers pulmonary embolism, or blood clots. During an August 7 start against the Cincinnati Reds, … - Michael Rosenbaum
Michael Owen Rosenbaum (born July 11, 1972) is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Lex Luthor on "Smallville". Continuing in the comic book genre, he voiced Wally West (a.k.a. The Flash) in the DC Comics animated series "Justice League". Rosenbaum has also done film and other voiceover work. In February of 2007, Rosenbaum confirmed that he would be leaving Smallville after the show's 7th season. - Brent Spence
Brent Spence (December 24, 1874 - September 18, 1967), a native of Newport, Kentucky, was a long time Democrat Congressman, attorney, and banker from Northern Kentucky. Spence was born in Newport, Kentucky to Philip and Virginia (Berry) Spence. He was graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1894 with a degree in law and was admitted to the bar that same year. He married Ida Bitterman on September 6, 1919. He was very active in local and state politics, … - Wynonna Judd
Wynonna Ellen Judd (born May 30, 1964) is an American country music singer. Born Christina Claire Ciminella, she often goes by the single name Wynonna. She is the daughter of singer Naomi Judd and the half-sister of actress Ashley Judd. - Nicky Hayden
Nicholas "Nicky" Patrick Hayden, born in Owensboro, Kentucky, also known as The Kentucky Kid, is an American professional motorcycle racer and 2006 MotoGP World Champion. - Richard Hell
Richard Hell (born October 2, 1949) is the stage name of Richard Meyers, an American singer, songwriter, bass guitarist and writer. He is probably best-known as frontman for the early punk rock band Richard Hell & The Voidoids. Their 1977 album, "Blank Generation", influenced other early punk bands. The title song is cited as being among the top ten punk songs, for instance, in the book "Rough Guide to Punk" (2006), … - Bell Hooks
Gloria Jean Watkins (born on September 25, 1952), better known as bell hooks is an African-American intellectual, feminist, and social activist. Hooks focuses on the interconnectivity of race, class, and gender and their ability to produce and perpetuate systems of oppression and domination. She has published over thirty books and numerous scholarly and mainstream articles, appeared in several documentary films and participated in various public lectures. - Michael Waltrip
Michael Curtis Waltrip (born April 30, 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky) is a professional race car driver and owner of Michael Waltrip Racing. He is the younger brother of Darrell Waltrip, a three-time NASCAR champion (now retired). Waltrip is a two-time winner of the Daytona 500 (2001 & 2003), and drives a self-owned #55 NAPA Toyota Camry in the NEXTEL Cup Series. - William E. Barber
William Earl Barber (1919-2002) was an officer in the United States Marine Corps awarded with the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Battle of Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War. With only 220 men under his command, Barber held off more than 1,400 People's Republic of China soldiers during six days of fighting. Despite the extreme cold weather conditions and himself suffering a bone fracturing wound to the leg, … - Chuck Woolery
Charles Herbert "Chuck" Woolery (born on March 16, 1941) is an American popular game show host, singer, actor and a two-time talk show host, best known as the host of "Wheel of Fortune" and the dating game show "Love Connection". He currently hosts "Lingo" on the Game Show Network. Woolery who is a devout born again Christian has had four wives, and enjoys bass fishing. Along with hosting numerous shows he has also appeared on the World Poker Tour. - Jack Warden
Jack Warden, was an Emmy Award-winning, Oscar-nominated American character actor. - John Hensley
John Carter Hensley (born August 29, 1977) is an actor known for his role he plays on "Nip/Tuck" as Matt McNamara. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Before becoming an actor, Hensley worked on a horse ranch in Wyoming. - Barry Bingham Sr.
George Barry Bingham, Sr., CBE, was the patriarch of a family that dominated local media in Louisville for several decades in the 20th century. Bingham's family owned a cluster of influential media properties — "The Courier-Journal" and "The Louisville Times" newspapers, plus WHAS Radio and Television. The papers had been purchased by his father, Col. Robert Worth Bingham, using proceeds from an inheritance left by his second wife, Mary Lily Kenan Flagler, … - Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784 - July 9, 1850) was an American military leader and the twelfth President of the United States. Known as "Old Rough and Ready," Taylor had a 40-year military career in the U.S. Army, serving in the War of 1812, Black Hawk War, and Second Seminole War after achieving fame while leading U.S. troops to victory at several critical battles of the Mexican-American War. A Southern slaveholder who opposed the spread of slavery to the territories, … - Rebecca Gayheart
Rebecca Gayheart (born August 12, 1971, in Hazard, Kentucky) is an American actress. - Jason Strudwick
Jason Strudwick (born July 17, 1975 in Edmonton, Alberta) is a professional ice hockey defenceman currently who currently plays for the New York Rangers. He is a cousin of the NHL players Scott and Rob Niedermayer. Strudwick was drafted in the 3rd round, 63rd overall by the New York Islanders in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft. He played his first NHL game with the Islanders against the Hartford Whalers on March 30, 1996. - John Landis
John David Landis (born August 3, 1950) is an American movie actor, director, writer, and producer. Although he is mostly known for his influential comedies, Landis has also done many horror related projects.
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