- George Eastman
George Eastman founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. The roll film was also the basis for the invention of the motion picture film in 1888 by world's first filmmaker, Louis Le Prince, and a decade later by his followers Léon Bouly, Thomas Edison, the Lumière Brothers and Georges Méliès. <sup></sup
- Darren Rowse
Darren Rowse is the blogger behind ProBlogger.net (a blog teaching bloggers to make money blogging and grow successful blogs) and Digital-Photography-School.com/blog - two of the highest ranking blogs in Australia. He is a full-time blogger himself, making a six-figure income from blogging now since 2005. Darren co-founded b5media - a venture capital backed blog network with over 350 blogs across 11 verticals.
- David Bailey
David Bailey CBE (born January 2, 1938 in Leytonstone, London) is a celebrated and famous English photographer.
- William Christenberry
William Christenberry (born November 5, 1936) is a photographer, painter and sculptor who works with personal and somewhat mythical themes growing out of his childhood experiences in Hale County, Alabama. Christenberry received his Bachelor's (1958) and Master's (1959) degrees in fine arts from the University of Alabama, studying under noted abstract expressionist Melville Price. Since 1968 he has taught at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C..
- Bill Campbell
Bill Campbell is the current Chairman of the Board and former CEO of Intuit Inc. He formerly worked for Apple Inc. (as VP of Marketing), Claris (as CEO), and GO Corporation (as CEO). Son of a local school official, Campbell was born and raised in Homestead, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. He attended Columbia University and starred in football. After graduation he coached Columbia's football team for two unremarkable seasons.
- Alison Sweeney
Alison Ann Sweeney (born September 19, 1976) is an American soap opera actress. She was born in Los Angeles, California. Alison is best known for her portrayal of Samantha "Sami" Gene Brady on the American soap opera "Days of Our Lives". In this role, she has earned four "Soap Opera Digest Awards" and a Fan Voted Daytime Emmy Award. She has been on "Days" since January 22, 1993.
- Steve Wallace
Steve Wallace (born August 18, 1987) is a NASCAR race car driver. Steve lives in Charlotte, North Carolina and drives the #66 Dodge Busch Series car for Rusty Wallace, Inc., which is owned by his father. Steve is the nephew of NASCAR drivers Kenny Wallace and Mike Wallace.
- Vittorio Storaro
Vittorio Storaro (born 24 June, 1940 in Rome, Italy) is a three-time Academy Award winning Italian cinematographer.
- Leo Baekeland
Leo Hendrik Baekeland (Ghent, November 14, 1863 - February 23, 1944) was a Belgian-American chemist who invented Velox photographic paper (1893) and Bakelite (1907), an inexpensive, nonflammable, versatile, and popular plastic. Born in Ghent, Belgium, Baekeland was the son of a cobbler and a maid. Upon completing his doctorate at the University of Ghent, he emigrated to America in 1889. Baekeland sold his patent for Velox photographic paper to the president of Kodak, …
- Hannibal Goodwin
The Reverend Hannibal Goodwin (1822-1900), an Episcopal priest at the House of Prayer in Newark, New Jersey patented a method for making transparent, flexible roll film out of nitrocellulose film base, which was used in Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope, an early machine for viewing animation. He was motivated to search for a non-breakable, and clear substance on which he could place the images he utilized in his Biblical teachings.
- Walter Dorwin Teague
Walter Dorwin Teague (December 18, 1883 - December 5, 1960) was an Art Deco designer and industrial designer. He designed cameras for Eastman Kodak, glassware for Steuben and Texaco gas stations. His company's work with Boeing began in 1946 with the design of the Stratocruiser's passenger aircraft interior. This relationship with Boeing has lasted more than 60 years with Teague's Aviation Studios work on every Boeing aircraft including the 707, 747, 777 and 787.
- Rick Smolan
A former "TIME", "LIFE" and "National Geographic" photographer, Rick Smolan has spent two decades finding ways to place himself and his projects directly in the path of the converging worlds of photography, design, publishing, and technology. Smolan created the best-selling "Day in the Life" photography series and is CEO of Against All Odds Productions, …
- Henry Strong
Henry Alvah Strong (1839 - 1919) was a U.S. photography businessman. He was the first president of the Eastman Kodak Company between 1884 and 1919.
- Gregg Toland
Gregg Toland was a highly influential American cinematographer, noted for his innovative use of lighting and techniques such as deep focus, an example of which can be found in his work on Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane". During the 1930s Toland was one of the most sought after cinematographers after becoming the youngest cameraman in Hollywood. Over a seven-year span (1936–1942), he was nominated five times for the "Best Cinematography" Oscar, …
- Chad Brown
Chad Brown is an American football official in the National Football League (NFL) since the 1992 NFL season. Brown serves as an umpire and has officiated in one Super Bowl, Super Bowl XXXV in 2001, and served as an alternate (standby) official for Super Bowl XXXIII in 1999. He uniform number is 31. Prior to his career as an NFL game official, Brown played football and was a Kodak All-American at East Texas State (now Texas A&M University-Commerce), …
- Bob Brust
Bob Brust is the former Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Eastman Kodak. He retired in November of 2006, and was replaced by Frank S. Sklarsky.
- Charles Turner
Charles Turner (born 1907 - died 1977) was an English composer and part-time spy, who took the last recorded British pre-World War Two photographs of Adolf Hitler. Born in the early 1900s, Turner life changed when his father died and his mother became a good friend of the Duke of Newcastle, who took care of the young boy. Turner resultantly attended public school, and latterly the University of Cambridge, where he became a noted composer and fluent German speaker.
- Steven van Slyke
Steven Van Slyke is an American chemist. He is known for his work with Organic Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs).
- Ziggy Switkowski
Dr Zygmunt (Ziggy) Edward Switkowski (born 1948, Germany) is the former Chief Executive Officer of Telstra, an Australian telecommunications company. From September 2005, Dr Switkowski took on a non-executive director role at Suncorp-Metway Limited. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Telstra on 1 March 1999, and is also on the Board of Directors of Foxtel. Switkowski resigned as Telstra's CEO on December 3, 2004, …
- Jesse Martin
Jesse Martin (born August 26, 1981, Dachau, Germany) is an Australian sailor who became the youngest person to circumnavigate the world solo, non-stop and unassisted in 1999. His journey, in the 34-foot sloop Lionheart-Mistral, took approximately 11 months. He chronicled his adventures in the book "Lionheart: A Journey of the Human Spirit", and his story was made into a TV movie, "Lionheart: The Jesse Martin Story".
- George Owen Squier
Major General George Owen Squier (March 21, 1863 - March 24, 1934) was born in Dryden, Michigan, United States. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1887 and received a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1893. George Squier wrote and edited many books and articles on the subject of radio and electricity. An inventor, his biggest contribution was that of multiplexing in 1910 for which he was elected to the National Academy of Science in 1919.
- Jason Cranford Teague
Jason Cranford Teague is the author of the best-selling "DHTML and CSS for the World Wide Web" (1999; now in its third printing). His other books include "Final Cut Pro 4 and the Art of Filmmaking" (2004) and "Photoshop at Your Fingertips" (2004) for various versions of Adobe Photoshop, starting at Photoshop 7 and including editions for each version that followed. He has contributed numerous articles to the "Apple Developers Connection", …
- Roy H. Wagner
Roy H. Wagner ASC (American Society of Cinematographers) is a two-time Emmy-winning cinematographer known for dramatic, dark imagery. Named by Kodak as one of the "Top 100 Directors of Photography in the World" Wagner's career has spanned 35 years in the motion picture and television industries. He has also received the ASC Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography for a Miniseries.
- Linda Wolf
Linda Wolf, (born March 17, 1950) is an American-born Photographer and Writer. She is the author of "Speaking and Listening From the Heart" (dsistas Press, 2004); co-author of "Daughters of the Moon, Sisters of the Sun: Young Women and Mentors on the Transition to Womanhood" (New Society Publishers, 1997); and "Global Uprising: Confronting the Tyrannies of the 21st Century; Stories from a New Generation of Activists" (New Society Publishers, 2001).
- Sonja Henning
Sonja L. Henning (born October 4, 1969 in Jackson, Tennessee) is an attorney and a former collegiate and professional basketball player. She grew up in Racine, Wisconsin and attended William Horlick High School.
- Rodney Childers
Rodney Childers (born June 7, 1976, in Mooresville, North Carolina) is a NASCAR crew chief. He currently works with Scott Riggs and the #10 Valvoline Dodge Charger fielded by Evernham Motorsports. Before becoming crew chief, Childers himself was a racer, competing in the World Karting Association when he was 12 years old.
- Michael R. Gallagher
Michael R. Gallagher was the CEO and Director of Playtex Products, Inc., from July 1995 until his retirement in December 2004. Prior to that, Gallagher was CEO of North America for Reckitt & Colman PLC, a consumer products company based in London. He was also the President and CEO of Eastman Kodak's subsidiary L&F Products, a cleaning products company, from 1988 to 1994. Michael serves as a member of the Board of Advisors of the Haas School of Business, …
- Beverley Craven
Beverley Craven is a British singer-songwriter (born 28 June 1963 in Colombo, Sri Lanka). She had her greatest success in the early 1990s, and is best known for the hit "Promise Me".
- Ismaël Ferroukhi
Ismaël Ferroukhi is a French-Moroccan film director. Ferroukhi was born in Kenitra. He gained exposure with his 1992 short film "L'Exposé", which won the Kodak Prize at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. Following, Ferroukhi co-wrote the Cédric Kahn film "Trop de Bonheur" (1994). His directorial debut "Le Grand Voyage", produced by Humbert Balsan and Ognon Pictures, …
- Jacob Gelt Dekker
Jacob Gelt Dekker (born April 22, 1948 in Oterleek, Netherlands,) is a Dutch businessman. He purportedly controls assets of about 200 million Euros. Dekker attended school between 1961 and 1967 in Alkmaar and later studied dentistry in Amsterdam. He received an Executive MBA from Erasmus University of Rotterdam and the University of Rochester. Following his education, Dekker created a series of entrepreneurial inventions, …
- Amanda Nevill
Amanda Nevill is an English arts administrator and is the current Director of the British Film Institute. She was educated in Yorkshire and Paris. She set up the first British contemporary art fair at Bath in 1980 and subsequently led a major touring exhibition for Kodak. She joined the Royal Photographic Society in 1985 and ran its archives and the commercial Centre in Bath. She became Company secretary and CEO in 1990, the first woman to hold the post.
- Marie Muchmore
Marie M. Muchmore was one of the witnesses to the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. A color 8 mm film that she photographed is one of the primary documents of the event. The Muchmore film, with other 8 mm films taken by Abraham Zapruder and Orville Nix, was used by the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination and to position the presidential limousine in a forensic recreation of the event in May 1964.
- Marv Harshman
Marv K. Harshman is a former college men's basketball coach. The Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA native coached at the University of Washington from 1971 to 1985. Prior to this, he coached at his alma mater of Pacific Lutheran University (1945-58) and Washington State University (1958-71). He compiled a 642-448 collegiate record winning PAC-8 coach of the year (1976), PAC-10 Coach of the Year (1982, 1984) and Kodak Coach of the Year for Division 1 basketball (1984).
- Alfred Hugh Harman
Alfred Hugh Harman was a pioneer of photography and founder of Ilford Limited. Harman established a photography business in Peckham in 1862 using William Fox Talbot’s Calotype negative/positive printing process. In 1864 he was advertising enlargements using solar cameras and artificial light.
- Bengt Baron
Bengt Baron (born March 6, 1962) was a backstroke swimmer from Sweden. He won the 100 m Backstroke at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, and was a member of the bronze winning team from Sweden in the 4x100m Freestyle at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. An undergraduate student from the University of California, Baron was named into its Hall of Fame in 1999. In the years 1979-1985 he won a total number of 33 Swedish titles.
- R. J. Yeatman
Robert Julian Yeatman (July 15, 1897 - July 13, 1968) was a British humorist who wrote for "Punch". He is best known for the book "1066 and All That" (1930, ISBN 0-413-77270-5), a tongue-in-cheek guide to "all the history you can remember", which he wrote with W. C. Sellar. He was born in Oporto, the principal city and port of northern Portugal, where his father was a wine merchant, a family business connected with Taylor's Port.
- Nicolas Entel
Nicolas Entel was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He holds a BA in Film Directing from the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires, and a Master’s Degree in Broadcasting Administration from Boston University. Since 2000, he divides his time between in New York City, where in 2002, he co-founded Red Creek Productions, and Buenos Aires. The company has now offices in New York, Buenos Aires and Costa Rica. In addition to supporting the release of his first film, …
- Thomas B. Allen
Thomas B. Allen 's writings range from articles for National Geographic Magazine to books on espionage and military history. His latest book is Declassified: 50 Top-Secret Documents That Changed History , published by the National Geographic Society in cooperation with the International Spy Museum. He is also the author of young adult books for National Geographic: Remember Pearl Harbor, Remember Valley Forge, George Washington , Spymaster, and Harriet Tubman , Secret Agent. .
- Payal Shakya
Payal Shakya (born 1986 in Kathmandu) was Miss Nepal 2004 (she also won Kodak Miss Photogenic) and her country's representative at Miss World 2004. She is a video jockey in television. She is 5' 4", has measurements 32-25-32.5, weighs 47 kg, and has light brown hair and dark eyes. She is engaged to Sarun Tamrakar.
- Nick Michaels
Nick Michaels is a broadcaster, writer, actor and producer whose voice has appeared on over a billion dollars of paid advertising for such clients as Excedrin, Coca Cola, Toyota, Kodak, and many other national advertisers. Born in Montreal, Canada, he started in radio as a teenager while still in high school. He moved to Toronto in 1973 and quickly became one of Canada's most in demand voices for television commercials.