- Dennis Hopper
Dennis Hopper is born ( 1936 ). This Hollywood survivor has lent his eccentric persona to a number of genre Movies , including Space Truckers ( 1997 ), Blue Velvet ( 1986 ), Waterworld ( 1995 ), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 ( 1986 ) and My Science Project ( 1985 ). He was born in Dodge City, Kansas, USA. - Jack Kevorkian
Jack Kevorkian, M.D. (born May 20, some sources say May 26, 1928) is a controversial American pathologist. He was born in Pontiac, Michigan to Armenian-American parents. He is most noted for publicly championing a terminal patient's right to die via physician-assisted suicide and claims to have assisted at least 130 patients to that end. He has famously stated, "dying is not a crime." It was previously thought that his activities earned him the nickname of Dr. - Walter Lord
Walter Lord was an American author, best known for his documentary-style non-fiction account "A Night to Remember", about the sinking of the RMS "Titanic". Lord was born in Baltimore, Maryland to John Walterhouse and Henrietta Hoffman. His father was a lawyer who died when Walter was just three years old. Following high school at Baltimore's Gilman School, he studied history at Princeton University, graduating in 1939. - Shanon Shah
Shanon Shah (born 1978 in Alor Setar, Kedah), is a singer-songwriter from Malaysia. He has released an album "Dilanda Cinta" (2005) on the InterGlobal Music Malaysia independent label. He is currently based in Kuala Lumpur and is noted for his emotive voice and cabaret-styled piano playing. Trained as a chemical engineer, Shanon has previously worked as a journalist and a credit risk analyst. He is also passionate about human rights advocacy, … - Michelle Alves
Michelle Alves is a Brazilian supermodel. She was born in Londrina, Brazil, as the daughter of a lawyer (mother) and an engineer (father). Alves was a top student in civil engineering at Brazil's Londrina State University prior to moving to São Paulo, where she pursued modeling. She is featured in the 2003 and 2005 editions of the "Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue" and is presently contracted by Valentino and Christian Dior. - Keith Henson
Keith Henson On July 19, 2000, Keith Henson was arrested by the Riverside County, California, Sheriff’s Office for making terrorist threats on the Internet against the Church of Scientology. On April 26, 2001, a jury found Henson guilty of having committed a hate crime under section 422.6 of the California Penal Code . Henson was scheduled to appear for sentencing on May 16, 2001, but failed to appear and the Judge was forced to issue a warrant for his arrest. - Erle Stanley Gardner
Erle Stanley Gardner was an American lawyer and author of detective stories who also published under the pseudonyms A.A. Fair, Kyle Corning, Charles M. Green, Carleton Kendrake, Charles J. Kenny, Les Tillray, and Robert Parr. - William Francis Gibbs
William Francis Gibbs (August 24, 1886 - September 6, 1967) was a naval architect who directed the mass production of cargo ships for the United States during World War II, including the famous Liberty ships, of which 2,751 were built. In partnership with his brother Frederic, he also designed the passenger liner SS United States (1952). Born in Philadelphia and trained as a lawyer, Gibbs became a self-taught naval architect. He died in New York City. - Verplanck Colvin
Verplanck Colvin (1847-1920) was a lawyer and topographical engineer whose understanding and appreciation for the environment of the Adirondack Mountains lead to the creation of New York's Forest Preserve and the Adirondack Park. Born in Albany, New York to a wealthy family, he was educated at private schools where he excelled in the sciences. In 1864, he joined his father's law office in Albany and was later admitted to the bar. - Zygi Wilf
Zygmunt "Zygi" Wilf (born April 22, 1950 in Germany) is the principal owner of the Minnesota Vikings of the NFL. - Greg Raymer
Greg "Fossilman" Raymer, born in Minot, North Dakota and raised in Lansing, Michigan, followed a traditional path with his schooling - attending law school and becoming a licensed patent attorney. But his life took a decidedly different turn when Greg tried to use his knowledge and skills to make history. In 2004, Greg won the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Championship and collected the largest purse ever paid to a winner of a poker tournament: $5 million. - George R. Riddle
George Read Riddle (1817 - March 29 1867) was an American engineer lawyer and politician from Wilmington, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a member of the Democratic Party who served as U.S. Representative and as U.S. Senator from Delaware. - James Alexander Forrest
Sir James "Jim" Alexander Forrest (March 10, 1905-September 26, 1990) was an Australian lawyer, businessman and philanthropist. Born in Kerang, Victoria, Forrest was educated at Caulfield Grammar School in Melbourne before studying an articled clerk's course at the University of Melbourne. Although this course did not end with him receiving a law degree, Forrest became qualified to work as both a barrister and solicitor in Victoria. - Buzz Aldrin
Colonel Buzz Aldrin, Sc.D (born January 20, 1930 as Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr.) is an American pilot and astronaut who was the Lunar Module Pilot on "Apollo 11", the first lunar landing. He became the second person to set foot on the Moon (after Mission Commander Neil Armstrong). - Sol Aranza
Sol Aranza (born on November 7th 1986) is a voice actress and stage performer. Sol is the daughter of Mary Aranza, a well-known actress and comedian who appeared in several movies and TV shows. Very little is known about her father other than that he is a lawyer and engineer. Sol is said to be born in Mexico City, but some claim she was actually born in Chicago. Sol Aranza grew up surrounded by famous show business people, … - John Vincent Atanasoff
John Vincent Atanasoff (October 4,1903 - June 15,1995) was an American physicist of Bulgarian descent. The 1973 decision of the patent suit "Honeywell v. Sperry Rand" named him the inventor of the first automatic electronic digital computer, a special-purpose machine that has come to be called the Atanasoff-Berry Computer. - Edmundo O'Gorman
Edmundo O'Gorman (* November 24 1906 in Mexico City - + September 28 1995 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer, historian and philosopher. He was the brother of architect Juan O'Gorman and the son of painter and mining engineer Cecil Crawford O'Gorman who arrived in Mexico from Ireland in 1895. He was also the grandson of Charles O'Gorman, the first British consul to Mexico City and later married a Mexican citizen. - Clarkson Nott Potter
Clarkson Nott Potter (1825 - 1882), was an American civil engineer, then (1848-1868) a practising lawyer in New York City, and in 1869-1875 and in 1877-1881 a Democratic member of the National House of Representatives. - Charles David Murray Lord Murray
Charles David Murray (20 October 1866 - 9 June 1936) was a Scottish Tory politician, lawyer and judge. Born in London, he was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University and was admitted as an advocate in 1889 and appointed a King's Counsel in 1907. He was a Major in the Forth Division of the Royal Engineers (Volunteers), resigning in 1907. He was on the War Office staff from 1915 to 1917, … - Uncas A. Whitaker
Uncas A. Whitaker (1900-1975) was born in Kansas and raised in Missouri. He was a prominent mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, lawyer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He received a mechanical engineering degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an electrical engineering degree from Carnegie Institute of Technology and a law degree from the Cleveland Law School. At the age of 41, he founded Aircraft-Marine Products, AMP Incorporated, in Harrisburg, … - Robert Haga
Robert Haga, Chief of Staff to Commissioner Chong. He was Vice President of Strategic Planning and USAC Operations at the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) in Washington D.C. Mr. Haga joined USAC in 1998 as its third employee, and during his seven years with USAC, he was responsible for a broad range of issues, including the high cost and low income support mechanisms, corporate finance, information technology, and audits. - Frederic Whitcombe
Frederic Whitcombe (born 15 October 1858, date of death unknown) was a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1898 to 1900. Born in Christchurch, New Zealand on 15 October 1858, Frederic Whitcombe was the son of civil engineer Henry Whitcombe and Maria nee North. Nothing is known of his life until 1890, by which time he was practicing as a solicitor at Geraldton, Western Australia. On 1 March 1892 he married Alice Mein at Albany, … - Wilfrid Normand Baron Normand
Wilfrid Guild Normand, Baron Normand, KC (1884 - 5 October 1962), was a Scottish politician and judge. Educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh, Oriel College, Oxford, Paris University and Edinburgh University, he was admitted as an advocate in 1910. He served in the Royal Engineers from 1915 to 1918. He became a King's Counsel in 1925. He contested Edinburgh West in 1929, and was Unionist Member of Parliament for the seat from 1931 to until his resignation in 1935, … - Peter Gzowski
Peter Gzowski, CC, LL.D, D.Litt (July 13, 1934 - January 24, 2002) was a Canadian broadcaster, writer and reporter, most famous for his work on the CBC radio show "Morningside". He wrote books, hosted television shows, and worked at a number of newspapers and at "Maclean's Magazine". It is estimated that he conducted 27,000 interviews as host of "Morningside". Gzowski was known for a friendly but somewhat gruff at times interviewing style. - Hans Ditlev Franciscus Linstow
Hans Ditlev Franciscus von Linstow (1787-1851) was a Norwegian, Danish-born architect, who is by many considered the first Norwegian architect. He is well-known to have designed the Royal Palace in Oslo and much of the surrounding park and the Karl Johans gate. He first studied painting and drawings at the "Art Academy" i Copenhagen, Denmark, while he at the same time studied law. After finalizing these studies in 1812, he went to Kongsberg, … - Sandy Shepard
Sandy Shepard is the founder of good solutions . She is a graduate of the University of California at San Diego, with a Masters in International Affairs from George Washington University. After a successful career in the business arena, she obtained her Doctor of Laws cum laude from Hastings College of The Law, and was a lawyer at what is now the Thelen, Reid & Priest law firm in San Francisco before transitioning in-house. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt III
Roosevelt upset the party bosses by supporting a rebel Democrat as New York's senator. Roosevelt's dissent group received a lot of publicity and he became a well known figure in New York politics. Roosevelt's abilities were brought to the attention of President Woodrow Wilson and in 1913 he appointed him as assistant secretary of the navy, a post he held for the next six years. - Carlos Uresti
Carlos Ismael "Charlie" Uresti (born September 12, 1963) is a Democrat representing the 19th District in the Texas Senate. Uresti previously represented portions of Bexar County and the City of San Antonio in District 118 in the Texas House from 1997 to 2006. Uresti, the youngest of eight children, was born in Bexar County, Texas, reared in San Antonio and graduated from McCollum High School. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve at age eighteen, … - Richard W. Sabers
Richard W. Sabers (born February 12, 1938) is an associate justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court. Sabers was born in Salem, South Dakota. He graduated from St. John's University of Collegeville, Minnesota in 1960 with a Bachelor of Arts, then served two years as a lieutenant in the Army Corps of Engineers for the United States Army, where he was stationed in Germany. - Ferdinand Waldo Demara
Ferdinand Waldo Demara (1921- June 8, 1982), known as "the Great Impostor", masqueraded as many people from monks to surgeons to prison wardens. Demara was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts in 1921, the son of a theater owner. A Roman Catholic, he tried unsuccessfully to enter a Trappist monastery in 1935. Two attempts later it seemed that the cloistered life did not agree with him and he joined the U.S. Army in 1941. - Philip Drinker
Philip Drinker (December 12, 1894 in Haverford, Pennsylvania –October 19, 1972 in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire) was an industrial hygienist who invented the first widely used iron lung in 1928 with Louis Agassiz Shaw. Drinker's father was railroad-man and Lehigh University president Henry Sturgis Drinker; his siblings included lawyer and musicologist Henry Sandwith Drinker, Jr., pathologist Cecil Kent Drinker,, businessman James Drinker, … - Kenneth Hecht
As the key Principal of the firm, Kenneth W. Hecht is primarily responsible for the identification and evaluation the Company's acquisitions, the development of the properties, the securing of acquisition and permanent financing and overseeing the leasing of the properties. Ken's extensive commercial real estate experience includes Property Acquisition, Investment Sales Brokerage, Investment Analysis, Property Management, and Leasing. - Steven J. Rocci
- Frank V. Pietrantonio
Frank Pietrantonio , the head of Cooley Godward Kronish's Patent Counseling & Prosecution Group and chair of the firm's Intellectual Property practice, is a member of the Litigation department. He is also a member of the Firm's management committee. He joined the Firm in 2000 and is resident in the Reston office. - Andrew C. Greenberg
Andrew C. Greenberg(1957 -) co-created "Wizardry" with Robert Woodhead, which was one of the first role-playing games for a personal computer. He was also involved with the production of the game "Q-Bert" and several of the later "Wizardry" games in the 1980s. With Rick Dutton, Walter Freitag, and Michael Massimilla he created Star Saga: One - Beyond The Boundary & Star Saga: Two - The Clathran Menace, in 1988 and 1989 respectively. - Joseph F. Oriti
- Stephen J. Driscoll
Stephen J. Driscoll practices in all fields of intellectual property law. In the patent field, he specializes in developments relating to fiber optics, software and the chemical arts. Mr. Driscoll has extensive experience in working with management to optimize the use of intellectual property assets. This experience includes interfacing with management to identify and develop patent positions on key emerging technologies. - Curtis Lawyer
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- Gene Cernan
Gene Cernan was one of fourteen astronauts selected by NASA in October 1963. Gemini 9 Pilot - Apollo 10 Lunar Module Pilot - Apollo 17 - Commander Cernan has logged 566 hours and 15 minutes in space, of which more than 73 hours were spent on the surface of the moon. Gene Cernan was the last man to walk on the Moon.
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