- Jade Lotus
Jade Lotus is one of eastern North Carolina's most profound underground hip-hop artists and producers. He began is hip-hop career in early 1994 by the name of Lord Jiru Starr, or LJS. While shaping his skills later that year, and after meeting his beat protege, Kazmir K, and connecting with his long-time partner in rhyme, OB-1 Kanobi, he began the formula for one of North Carolina's hottest underground camps, the Black Jedii Squad. - Flying Lotus
Flying Lotus is a hip-hop music producer, disc jockey, and laptop musician from Winnetka, California. His debut album, "1983", was released on Plug Research Records in 2006. He is most famous (yet also uncredited) for the music in the many of the segues of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. His great-aunt is the late Alice Coltrane. - Silent Lotus
silent lotus is a spiritual advisor with an additional gift of sharing through poetry and art. Descending from grandparents who traveled from homes in Hungary and Russia, silent lotus was born in America. He was raised in the small unique community of Roosevelt, New Jersey, which was designed in the Bauhaus style by Louis Kahn and Alfred Kastner in 1936 and was the home to many renowned people in the arts including Ben Shahn, … - Colin Chapman
Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman (19 May 1928 - 16 December 1982) was a British influential designer, inventor, and builder in the automotive industry. In 1952 he founded the sports car company Lotus Cars. He studied structural engineering at University College, London where he joined the University Air Squadron and learned to fly. After graduating in 1948, he briefly joined the Royal Air Force. - Ray Ozzie
Ray Ozzie Encyclopedia Search: in Tutorials Encyclopedia Dictionary Entire Web Store - Mitch Kapor
Mitchell David Kapor (born 1950) is the founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3, the "killer application" often credited with making the personal computer ubiquitous in the business world in the 1980s. He has been at the forefront of the information technology revolution for a generation as an entrepreneur, investor, social activist, and philanthropist - Johnny Herbert
John Paul Herbert (born June 25, 1964 in Romford, England) is a British former racing driver from England. He competed in Formula One, where he won three races, and more recently in sports cars. He enjoyed much success in lower-level motor racing but never managed to achieve the same level of performance at the top level of motorsport. During the mid-1980s, Johnny Herbert was widely regarded as a coming man of motor racing, likened by some to the Scot Jim Clark. - Elio de Angelis
Elio de Angelis was a racing driver who participated in Formula One between and, racing for the Shadow, Lotus and Brabham teams. He was killed during testing at the Paul Ricard circuit at Le Castellet in 1986. Elio de Angelis was a competitive and highly popular presence during the Formula One circus of the 1980s, and is sometimes referred to as Formula One's "last gentleman player". - Jo Siffert
Joseph Siffert was a Swiss race car driver. Affectionately known as "Seppi" to his family and close friends, Jo Siffert was born in Fribourg, Switzerland, the son of a dairy owner. He initially made his name in racing on two wheels, powering his way to the Swiss 350cc motorcycle championship in 1959, before switching to four wheels with a Formula Junior Stanguellini. Siffert graduated to Formula 1 as a privateer in 1962, with a four-cylinder Lotus-Climax. - Michael Stipe
John Michael Stipe (born January 4, 1960 in Decatur, Georgia) is the lead singer of the American rock band R.E.M. Stipe has become well-known (and occasionally parodied) for the "mumbling" style of his early career and for his complex, surreal lyrics, as well as his social and political activism. - Satoru Nakajima
Satoru Nakajima is a former Formula One driver from Japan. He was born into a farming family living just outside Okazaki, Japan. He began driving cars in his early teens in the family's garden with his older brother giving him tips, careful that they were not caught by their father. He felt a great deal of exhiliration behind the wheel of a car, and from then on knew what he wanted to do. He started racing after he finished school and got a driver's licence. - Bob Bondurant
Robert Bondurant (born 27 April 1933 in Evanston, Illinois) is an American former racecar driver who raced for the Ferrari and Eagle teams in Formula One. During his teens, Bondurant raced an Indian motorcycle on dirt ovals. In 1956 he began sports car racing with Morgan and started to attract attention when he won the West Coast "B" production Championship, in a Chevrolet Corvette. In 1963 he became a member of Carroll Shelby's Ford Cobra team, … - Pedro Lamy
Pedro Lamy was the son of a second-hand car dealer. He started competing in motocross when young before moving into kart racing and winning the Portuguese title in 1988. The following year he raced in Formula Ford in Portugal and then in 1990 moved to the GM Lotus Euroseries. The following year he joined Draco Racing, succeeding Rubens Barrichello in the drive, won the European title and was recruited to drive for the WTS team in German Formula 3. - Bob Evans
Robert "Bob" Evans (born June 11, 1947 in Waddington, Lincolnshire) is a British former racing driver from England. He participated in 11 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on March 1, 1975. He scored no championship points. He also competed in numerous non-Championship Formula One races. Evans followed the usual route through to Formula One, via Formula Ford, Formula 3 and Formula 5000 where he was British champion in 1974. - Cliff Allison
Henry Clifford Allison (b. 8 February 1932, Brough, Westmorland - d. 7 April 2005, Brough, "(now)" Cumbria) was a racing driver who participated in Formula One during seasons to for the Lotus, Scuderia Centro Sud, Ferrari and UDT Laystall teams. He suffered a major crash behind the wheel of his Ferrari while practicing for the 1960 Monaco Grand Prix and it took him almost the rest of the year to recover from the injuries. - Giancarlo Baghetti
Giancarlo Baghetti (born December 25 1934 in Milan, Italy; died November 27 1995) was a Formula One driver who raced for the Ferrari, ATS (Ita), BRM, Brabham and Lotus teams. He was the son of a wealthy Milan industrialist. Baghetti still remains the only driver to have won his first ever World Championship race (aside from Nino Farina, who won the first ever World Championship Grand Prix in 1950, by default a first). - Richard Attwood
Richard "Dickie" Attwood (b. 4 April 1940, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire) is a British former motor racing driver. During his career he raced for the BRM, Lotus and Cooper Formula One teams. In his whole F1 career he achieved one podium and scored a total of 11 championship points. He was also a successful sports car racing driver and won the 1970 24 Hours of Le Mans race, driving a Porsche 917. - Lucien Bianchi
Lucien Bianchi (November 10 1934 - March 30 1969), born Luciano Bianchi, was a Belgian racing driver who raced for the Cooper, ENB, UDT Laystall and Scuderia Centro Sud teams in Formula One. Bianchi was born in Milan, Italy, but moved to Belgium when he was still a child, with his father who was a race mechanic. His first race event was at the Alpine Rally in 1951. - Martin Donnelly
Hugh Peter Martin Donnelly (born in Belfast, 26 March 1964), is a former motor racing driver from Northern Ireland. After promising runs at Formula 3 and Formula 3000, in which he won 3 races and was a championship contender, Donnelly stepped up to F1 with Arrows in 1989. In he continued in F1 with Lotus, but after a season of no points, but very promising performances, he suffered a terrible crash during qualifying at the Jerez circuit that crippled him for life. - David Walker
David Walker (born June 10 1941 in Sydney) is an Australian former racing driver who drove for Lotus in the 1971 and 1972 Formula One Championships. - Mike Coughlan
Mike Coughlan is Chief Designer for the McLaren Formula One team, and has been in the position since 2002. Coughlan was born in the United Kingdom, and studied Mechanical Engineering at Brunel University, graduating in 1981. He first designed cars for Tiga Cars, which competed in junior formulae, until 1984, when he joined the Lotus Formula One team. As the team's fortunes waned, it was reorganised at the end of 1990, … - Brett Lunger
Robert Brett Lunger (born November 14 1945) is a former racecar driver from the USA. He was born in Wilmington, Delaware. Lunger was educated in dancing schools in Wilmington, the Holderness School, and Princeton University. He dropped out of Princeton after three years to enlist for service in Vietnam. He was a political science major. At the time he was preparing a thesis on U.S. Policy on Southeast Asia. - Julian Bailey
Julian Bailey (born 9 October 1961 in Woolwich, London) is a former Formula One driver who raced for the Tyrrell and Lotus teams. Although born in the United Kingdom, he was raised in Spain, and became an accomplished Formula Ford 1600 racer in Britain, winning the important Formula Ford Festival at Brands Hatch. In 1986 he got his chance to race in Formula 3000 in a GA Motorsport Lola, in which he won his third F3000 race, … - Conrero
Virgilio Conrero was born in Turin, Italy in 1918. He established "Autotecnica Conrero" in 1951, and successfully tuned Alfa Romeo cars until 1969. At the same time, he tuned Lancia Aurelia models as well. Between 1958 and 1960 some sports cars were made by Conrero using bodies designed by Michelotti. The firm is actually named "Studio Futuro" and located in Lugo. The main client is actually Lotus. The company offers sporting accessories for cars as well. - Michael Bartels
Michael Bartels (born March 8, 1968 in Plettenberg, Germany) is a professional race car driver. He failed to qualify for 4 Formula One Grands Prix with Lotus. He was the 1985 German karting champion and the 1986 German Formula Ford 1600 champion. After his F1 starts he continued in F3000, finishing 4th in 1992, before switching to the DTM - he was top privateer in 1994 and also raced the series in 1995 and 1996. - Sam Michael
Sam Michael is technical director of WilliamsF1, a Formula One constructor. He was born on April 29, 1971 in Western Australia and grew up in Canberra. After studying Mechanical Engineering at the University of New South Wales with a thesis on data acquisition systems for racing cars, he worked with the Formula Holden team. The team owner, Gregg Siddle, employed him on a part-time basis so that Michael could continue his studies. - Ivor Bueb
Ivor Léon John Bueb was a sports car racing and Formula One driver from England. Bueb started racing seriously in a Formula 3 500cc Cooper in 1953, graduating to occasional starts in Grands Prix in 1957 with a Connaught and a Maserati run by Gilby Engineering. The following year he raced Bernie Ecclestone's Connaught at Monaco, and drove a Formula Two Lotus at the German Grand Prix. In 1959 he had two outings for BRP, firstly a non-qualification at Monaco, … - Brad Jones
Bradley Jones also known as Brad or Uncle Brad (born 2 April 1960) is an Australian racing driver formely competing in the V8 Supercars. Jones was born and grew up in the country town of Albury in New South Wales, where he still lives now. He has a range of experience in domestic and international racing that he puts to use in the V8 Supercar team he owns and runs with his brother Kim. - Keith Duckworth
David Keith Duckworth, (August 10 1933 - December 18 2005), was an English mechanical engineer. He is most famous for designing the Cosworth DFV (Double Four Valve) engine, an engine that revolutionised the sport of Formula One. Duckworth was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, and was educated at Giggleswick School. He served his two years of national service with the Royal Air Force, … - Frank Costin
Frank Costin was an automotive engineer who pioneered monocoque chassis design and was instrumental in adapting aircraft aerodynamic knowledge for automobile use. He was the brother of Mike Costin, co-founder of Cosworth. Frank Costin used his aeronautical knowledge to design and build a chassis from plywood. This led to a lightweight, stiff structure, which he could then clothe with an efficient, aerodynamic body, … - Herbert Mackay-Fraser
Herbert MacKay-Fraser (June 23, 1927 - July 14, 1957) was a racing driver from the United States, born in Pernambuco, Brazil. He participated in one Formula One World Championship grand prix, the 1957 French Grand Prix, on July 7, 1957. He retired from the race and scored no championship points. A week later he was killed in the Coupe de Vitesse at Reims-Gueux, when he crashed his Lotus. - Brian Henton
Brian Henton (born September 19 1946) is a former racing driver from England. He won both 1974 British Formula Three Championships, and the Formula Two championship in 1980. He participated in 38 Formula One grands prix, debuting on July 19, 1975, but never scored any championship points. - Romano Artioli
Romano Artioli is an Italian entrepreneur, born in Moglia (Mantova) and raised in Bolzano and one-time owner of Bugatti and Lotus. Under Artioli's stewardship Bugatti was revived, produced a single car, the Bugatti EB110, and went bust. Artioli purchased Lotus from General Motors in August 1993. He sold a majority stake to Proton in 1996 to fund his losses due to the insolvency of Bugatti but stayed on the board as Special Projects director until 1998. - Bill Brack
William Brack (born 26 December 1935 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a former racing driver. He originally became involved in auto racing in the early 1960s, in the form of ice-racing Minis (using a company car) in Huntsville, Ontario. He went on to purchase Gordon Brown's own racing Mini (Gord Brown being another Mini racer as well as dealer of British cars at Ensign Motors in Toronto.) Brack subsequently became a Formula One driver who raced for the Lotus and BRM teams. - Peter Arundell
Peter Arundell (born 8 November 1933 in Ilford, Essex) is a British former racing driver from England, who raced in Formula One for the Lotus team. He participated in 13 World Championship Grands Prix, scoring 12 championship points. Arundell became a professional racing driver after finishing his time in the Royal Air Force, competing in Lotus and Elva cars. In 1962 he won the British Formula Junior championship in a Lotus 22, and also in 1963 in a Lotus 27. - Chris Boardman
Chris Boardman (born August 26 1968 in Hoylake) is a former English racing cyclist who won an individual pursuit gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics and broke the world hour record three times. He is also known as a specialist in the individual time trial. Chris Boardman's nickname is "the Professor", for his meticulous attention to detail in preparation and training, and his technical know-how. - Padma Lakshmi
Padma Lakshmi (b. 1970) is a New York-based Indian-American supermodel, actress, talk show host and award-winning cookbook author. She was born in Chennai, India and is fluent in five languages - English, Hindi, Italian, Spanish, and Tamil. Her name literally means the "lotus goddess" in Sanskrit. - Eddie Keizan
Eddie Keizan (born September 12, 1944 in Johannesburg) is a former Formula One driver from South Africa. He raced in three World Championship grands prix during the 1970s, debuting on March 3, 1973. He scored no championship points. After success in South Africa driving saloons and sports cars, Keizan moved into Formula 5000 where he won the national championship. He participated in the South African Formula One championships as well, … - Geoff Lees
Geoffrey Lees (born May 1, 1951 near Kingsbury, Warwickshire) is a former Formula One driver from England. He participated in 12 Grands Prix, debuting on July 16, 1978. He scored no championship points. Lees' first Grand Prix chance came with a non-works Ensign at his home race in 1978, but he failed to qualify. The following year he had a one-off drive for Tyrrell, before a more regular ride with the struggling Shadow team in 1980. - Stephen Lee
Stephen Lee (born 12 October 1974) is a professional snooker player from Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, noted for his smooth cue action that some pundits regard as the most natural in the game. He is also distinguished by his unusually high weight for a professional sportsman - he is the heaviest Top-16 player to date. Competitor Ronnie O'Sullivan suggested in his autobiography that Lee had developed a food addiction due to the high pressures of the game.
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