- Larry King
Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger on November 19, 1933) is an iconic award-winning American writer, journalist and broadcaster. He currently hosts a nightly interview program on CNN called "Larry King Live", one of the longest running talk shows on air. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the main leaders of the American civil rights movement, a political activist, a Baptist minister, and is regarded as one of America's greatest orators. King's most influential and well-known public address is the "I Have A Dream" speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. in 1963. In 1964, King became the youngest man to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (for his work as a peacemaker, … - Stephen King
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of over 200 stories including over 50 bestselling horror and fantasy novels. King was the 2003 recipient of The National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. King evinces a thorough knowledge of the horror genre, as shown in his nonfiction book "Danse Macabre", which chronicles several decades of notable works in both literature and cinema. - 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, … - Keira Knightley
Keira Christina Knightley is an English film and television actress. She began her career as a child actress, and came to international prominence in 2003, after co-starring in the films "Bend It Like Beckham" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl". Knightley has since become a notable lead actress, … - Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson (born August 29, 1958), commonly known as MJ as well as the "King of Pop", is an American musician, entertainer, and global icon whose successful career and controversial personal life have been a part of pop culture for almost 40 years. Michael Jackson is widely regarded as one of the greatest entertainers and most popular recording artists in history, displaying complicated physical techniques, … - Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden, most often mentioned as Osama bin Laden or Usama bin Laden, is a Saudi militant Islamist and is reported to be the founder of the organization called al-Qaeda. He is a member of the wealthy bin Laden family. In conjunction with several other Islamic militant leaders, … - Richard Gere
Richard Tiffany Gere (born August 31, 1949) is an American actor. He first became famous during the 1980s, after appearing in several successful Hollywood films, including "An Officer and a Gentleman", and has since retained his status as a leading man. During the 1990s and 2000s, he starred in several well-received films, "Pretty Woman", "Primal Fear", and "Chicago" for which he won a Golden Globe award as Best Actor. - Justin Timberlake
Justin Randall Timberlake, (born January 31 1981), sometimes known as JT, is an American pop-R&B singer and actor. He came to fame as the frontman of pop boy band 'N Sync and has won four Grammy Awards. In 2002, he released his debut solo album, "Justified", which sold over seven million copies worldwide. Timberlake's second solo release, "FutureSex/LoveSounds", was released in 2006 with the #1 U.S. hit singles "SexyBack", "My Love", … - Naomi Watts
Naomi Ellen Watts (born September 28, 1968) is a British actress known for her roles in "Mulholland Dr.", the film remakes of "The Ring" and "King Kong", as well as her Academy Award-nominated role in the film "21 Grams". - Triple H
Paul Michael Levesque (born July 27, 1969 in Nashua, New Hampshire) is an American professional wrestler, better known by the ring name Triple H, an abbreviation of his former moniker, Hunter Hearst Helmsley. He is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment promotion on its "RAW" brand. Since January 2007, he has been inactive while rehabilitating a torn quadriceps muscle. Vignettes have started to air hyping his return. - Robert de Niro
Robert Mario De Niro Jr., credited professionally as Robert De Niro (born August 17, 1943), is an American film actor, director, and producer. He is noted for his method acting and portrayal of conflicted, troubled characters, for his enduring collaboration with director Martin Scorsese and for his early work with director Brian De Palma. - Jack Black
Jack Black (born Thomas Jack Black, Jr. on August 28, 1969) is a Golden Globe Award-nominated American actor, comedian and musician. He is considered a core member of the Frat Pack, a name used by members of the media for a group of comedians active in today's Hollywood films, though he is also in demand for Hollywood blockbusters and indie films. He and Kyle Gass make up the comedy/rock duo Tenacious D. Black is also known by his nicknames, … - Wesley Snipes
Wesley Trent Snipes (born July 31, 1962) is an American actor, martial artist and film producer. He may be best known for his role as the vampire hunter in the "Blade" trilogy of movies. Snipes has starred in action-adventures, thrillers, comedies, and dramatic feature films opposite such actors as Robert De Niro and Sean Connery. On April 24, 2008, he was sentenced to three years in prison for three misdemeanor convictions for willful failure to file federal income tax returns. - George Washington
George Washington was a central and critical figure in the founding of the United States, and is commonly referred to as father of the nation. He led America's Continental Army to victory over Britain in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), and in 1789 was elected the first President of the United States of America. He served two four-year terms from 1789 to 1797, winning reelection in 1792. - Terry Gilliam
Terrence Vance Gilliam (born November 22, 1940) is an American-born British filmmaker, animator, and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam has the distinction of being the only American-born Python, as the rest of the group are all British by birth. - John Wayne
John Wayne (May 26, 1907 - June 11, 1979) was an iconic, Academy Award-winning, American film actor. He epitomized ruggedly individualistic masculinity, and has become an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive voice, walk and height. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Wayne thirteenth among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. A Harris Poll released in 2007 placed Wayne third among America's favorite film stars, … - Cecilia Cheung
Cecilia Cheung (Traditional Chinese: 張栢芝, Simplified Chinese: 张柏芝, pinyin: Zhãng Bǒ Zhī, Cantonese: Cheung Pak Zhi, born May 24, 1980) is a Hong Kong actress and singer. She is affectionately known for her husky sultry voice - William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright now widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. His surviving works include at least 38 plays, two long narrative poems and 154 sonnets, as well as a variety of other poems. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, and at 18 married Anne Hathaway, … - Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken (born March 31, 1943) is an Academy Award-winning American film and theatre actor who is best known for roles such as the Bond villain Max Zorin in the 1985 blockbuster "A View to a Kill". In 1979, Walken won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "The Deer Hunter", where he played a disturbed Vietnam vet alongside Robert De Niro. Walken was nominated again in 2002 for "Catch Me if You Can". - The Notorious B.I.G.
Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 - March 9, 1997), popularly known as Biggie Smalls (after a gangster in the 1975 film "Let's Do It Again"), Big Poppa, Frank White (from the film "King of New York"), and his primary stage name, The Notorious B.I.G. (Business Instead of Game), was an American rapper and hip hop artist. - Patton Oswalt
Patton Oswalt (born January 27, 1969 in Portsmouth, Virginia, USA) is an actor, writer, voiceover artist, and professional comedian. - Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr, CBE (born 30 September 1921) is a Golden Globe award winning Scottish actress who is best known today for starring in the films "The King and I", "An Affair to Remember" and "From Here to Eternity". Nominated six times for an Academy Award as Best Actress, she never won, but was a recipient of an Academy Honorary Award for a motion picture career that has always represented "Perfection, Discipline and Elegance". - Sophie Marceau
Sophie Marceau (born November 17, 1966) is a French actress. - Brittany Anne Murphy
Brittany Murphy (born November 10, 1977) is an American singer and actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles in "Clueless", "Girl, Interrupted", "8 Mile", "Sin City", "The Dead Girl", and "Happy Feet", which have all been box office and critical successes. - Brad Bird
Phillip Bradley Bird (born on September 11, 1957 in Kalispell, Montana) is an American Academy Award-winning animator who is known for writing and directing the 1999 Warner Bros. film "The Iron Giant" and the critical and box office hits "The Incredibles" (2004) and "Ratatouille" (2007) from Disney/Pixar. - Queen Rania Al-Abdullah Of Jordan
Queen Rania Al-Abdullah, is the queen consort of King Abdullah II of Jordan. - Gerard Butler
Gerard James Butler (born November 13, 1969) is a Scottish actor and singer, perhaps best known for his roles as the Phantom from "The Phantom of the Opera", as well as King Leonidas from "300". - Jerry Lawler
Jerry O'Neil Lawler (born November 29, 1949) is an American professional wrestler and wrestling commentator, known throughout the wrestling world as "The King". He is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment working and wrestling on its "RAW" brand as the color commentator. He also wrestles and occasionally commentates for the Memphis Wrestling promotion. - Tom Waits
Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by one critic as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorporation of pre-rock styles such as blues, jazz, and Vaudeville, and experimental tendencies verging on industrial music, … - Ike Turner
Izear Luster Turner (born November 5, 1931) is an African American musician (piano, guitar), bandleader, talent scout and record producer, best known for his work with his former wife Tina Turner. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and in 2001 was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame. - John Mayer
John Clayton Mayer (born October 16, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Originally from Connecticut, he briefly attended Berklee College of Music before moving to Atlanta, Georgia in 1998, where he refined his skills and began gaining a following. His first two studio albums, "Room for Squares" and "Heavier Things", both did well commercially, achieving multi-platinum status. - Napoléon Bonaparte
Napoleon I (born Napoleone Buonaparte, later Napoléon Bonaparte ; 15 August 1769 - 5 May 1821) was a general during the French Revolution, the ruler of France as First Consul ("Premier Consul") of the French Republic from 11 November 1799 to 18 May 1804, Emperor of the French ("Empereur des Français") from 18 May 1804 to 6 April 1814, and was briefly restored as Emperor from 20 March to 22 June 1815. - Mario Lanza
Mario Lanza (31 January 1921 - 7 October 1959) was an American tenor and Hollywood movie star who enjoyed success in the late 1940s and 1950s. His voice was considered by many to rival that of Enrico Caruso, whom Lanza portrayed in the 1951 film "The Great Caruso". Lanza was able to sing all types of music. While his highly emotional style was not always universally praised by critics, he was immensely popular and his many recordings are still prized today. - Forest Whitaker
Forest Steven Whitaker (born July 15, 1961) is an American actor, producer, and director. For his performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the 2006 film, "The Last King of Scotland", Whitaker won several major awards, including an Oscar, a Golden Globe, and a BAFTA. He became the fourth African American to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, following in the footsteps of Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, and Jamie Foxx. - Jerry Stiller
Jerry Stiller (born June 8, 1927) is an American comedian, actor, and father of Ben Stiller. - Lou Dobbs
Lou Dobbs (born September 24 1945) is the anchor and managing editor of CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight", an editorial columnist, and host of a syndicated radio show. "Lou Dobbs Tonight" attracts CNN's second-largest audience after "Larry King Live", with about 800,000 viewers per night. Dobbs also lectures widely. - Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his children's books, including "The Jungle Book" (1894), "The Second Jungle Book" (1895), "Just So Stories" (1902), and "Puck of Pook's Hill" (1906); his novel, "Kim" (1901); his poems, including "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), and "If—" (1910); and his many short stories, … - Jim Duggan
James Stuart Duggan (born January 14, 1954), better known by his ring name "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, is an American professional wrestler, currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment wrestling on its "RAW" brand. He is best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation and World Championship Wrestling. His best known gimmick is that of an American patriot. - Pier Angeli
Pier Angeli (born Anna Maria Pierangeli was an Italian-born actress.
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