- Stephen Covey
Stephen R. Covey (born October 24 1932 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is the author of the international best selling book, "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People", first published in 1989. Other books he has written include "First Things First", "Principle-Centered Leadership" and "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Families". His latest book is "The 8th Habit", published in 2004. - David Wilcox
David Patrick Wilcox (born 1958) is an American folk musician and singer-songwriter. Wilcox was born in Mentor, Ohio. He attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio in 1976 where he started learning guitar. He later transferred to Warren Wilson College in North Carolina in 1981 and graduated in 1985. Within two years he had released his first album, and by 1989 he had signed with A&M Records, a major label. - Bill Duke
Bill Duke (born February 26, 1943) is an American actor and film director. - John M. Bennett
John M. Bennett (b. 1942, Chicago) is an American experimental text, sound, and visual poet, who has won the attention of critic Richard Kostelanetz, and other commentators on the avant-garde. As well as steadily producing and distributing his own work, Bennett, through "Luna Bisonte Prods", a small press business founded in 1974, has published thousands of limited edition items by writers who compose visual poetry, wordart, and other experimental fiction/art/poetry. - Jaz-O
Jaz, now known as Jaz-O (Real Name: Johnathan Burks) is an East Coast rapper, active in the late 1980s and early 1990s, best known for being a mentor of sorts to Jay-Z. Jaz is also known as The Originator. He had a song called "The Originators," which featured a young Jay-Z in the late 1980s. As simply The Jaz, he had success with his 1990 single "Hawaiian Sophie," from his debut album "Word to the Jaz". He has been featured on some of Jay-Z's songs, … - Michael Marcus
Michael Marcus is a commodities trader who, in under 20 years, is reputed to have turned his initial $30,000 into $80 million. Marcus met his mentor Ed Seykota while working as an analyst and learned money management from him. Later while working. at Commodities Corporation and before becoming the company's executive vice president, he hired Bruce Kovner to be his assistant and taught Bruce the ins and outs of trading. - Ray Hunt
Ray Hunt is an American horse trainer and clinician of significant influence in the natural horsemanship field, a mentor and teacher of Buck Brannaman - Bagoas
Bagoas (in Old Persian "Bagoi"; died 336 BC) was a eunuch who became the confidential minister of Artaxerxes III. He threw in his lot with the Rhodian condottiere Mentor, and with his help succeeded in subjecting Egypt again to the Persian empire (probably 342 BC). Mentor became general of the maritime provinces, suppressed the rebels, and sent Greek mercenaries to the king, … - Lawrence Washington
Lawrence Washington (1718-1752) was George Washington's half-brother and mentor. He married Anne Fairfax (1728-1761), daughter of Colonel William Fairfax of Belvoir, himself a land agent for his cousin, Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron. George accompanied his brother Lawrence to the warm springs at Bath (present-day Berkeley Springs, West Virginia), which Lawrence visited frequently to cure his ailments. - Barsine
Barsine was daughter of Artabazus, satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia, and wife of Mentor of Rhodes and after his death, Mentor's brother, Memnon. In 334 BC, the year of Alexander's invasion of Asia, she and her children were sent by Memnon to the king Darius III as hostages for his fidelity; and in the ensuing year, when Damascus was betrayed to the Macedonians, she fell into the hands of Alexander, by whom she became the mother of Heracles. - Hugh McColl
Hugh McColl (born June 18, 1935) is an American banker who was a driving force behind the consolidation that characterizes the commercial banking industry today. He was born and raised in Bennettsville, S.C., and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. McColl then joined the United States Marine Corps. After serving a tour of duty, approximately two years later, … - Cedric Smith
Cedric Smith is an actor from Bournemouth, England (born 1943). He played the voice of Professor X in the "X-Men" TV series. He also provided the voice of Mentor on the short-lived "Silver Surfer" animated series, also on the Fox network. Guest appeared on the syndicated program Mutant X in its first season, as well as on the cult hit Forever Knight--alongside his then-wife, Disher. He has a son named Darcy Montgomery Smith who was born in 1993. - Julia Bell
Julia Bell (January 28,1879-1979) was a pioneering English human geneticist. Julia Bell graduated in mathematics at Trinity College, Dublin. After six years investigating solar parallax at Cambridge Observatory, she moved to University College, London and obtained a position there as an assistant in statistics. It was her mentor, the mathematician Karl Pearson (1857-1936), one of the founders of modern statistics, who prompted her to change to medicine in 1914. - Song Ping
Song Ping was an official in the Communist Party of China and is considered a member of the Second Generation of Chinese Leadership. He rose through the ranks of the party to become first secretary of CCP Gansu Division, and later Minister of Organization of CCP. Song was in charge of senior cadres' recommendation, candidacy and promotion. During his time as First Secretary of CPP Gansu Division, … - Paul William Roberts
Paul William Roberts is a Canadian writer who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Born in Wales and educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he gained a second in English Language and Literature, Roberts moved permanently to Canada in 1980. He lived for several years prior to this in India, where he taught at Bangalore University and studied Sanskrit at the Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi. While working on his first novel, "The Palace of Fears", … - Stijn Streuvels
Stijn Streuvels, born Franciscus (Frank) Petrus Maria Lateur, is a Flemish writer. He was born on October 3, 1871 in Heule, Kortrijk, and died in Ingooigem, Anzegem on August 15, 1969 at the age of 98. In 1905 he married Alida Staelens. They had 4 children: Paula (1906), Paul (1909), Dina (1916) and Isa (1922). Since 1980 their house became a museum dedicated to Streuvels. He started writing at a very young age. - Maurice Ewing
William Maurice "Doc" Ewing (May 12 1906 - May 4 1974) was an American geophysicist and oceanographer. Ewing has been described as a pioneering geophysicist who worked on the research of seismic reflection and refraction in ocean basins, ocean bottom photography, submarine sound transmission, deep sea coring of the ocean bottom, theory and observation of earthquake surface waves, fluidity of the earth's core, generation and propagation of microseisms, … - Ceiri Torjussen
Ceiri Torjussen is an Emmy-nominated composer who has contributed music to dozens of film and television productions in the U.S. His music was described by the Los Angeles Times as a “sudden bolt of creative lightning”, and he was hailed in a UK newspaper as one of the brightest British musical talents in recent history. Similarly, in the last few years, he has made a sudden but marked impact on the world of film music in Los Angeles, … - Kathy Kirby
Kathy Kirby (born Kathleen O'Rourke, 20 October 1940, in Ilford, Essex) was a popular English singer of the 1960s. Kirby's soprano voice became apparent early in life and she was thought to be good enough for opera. She became a professional singer after meeting the bandleader, Ambrose at the Ilford Palais. She remained with Ambrose's band for three years and he remained her manager and mentor until his death in 1971. She adopted the look of a 'blonde bombshell', … - Bruce Webster
Bruce Webster is an internationally recognized expert on information technology, as well as a software engineer, an entrepreneur and a former game programmer. Webster is a 1978 graduate of Brigham Young University with a bachelor's degree in computer science. He also did graduate work in computer science at the University of Houston-Clear Lake in southeast Houston, Texas. - Nicky Siano
Nicky Siano (18/03/1955 -)was born in Brooklyn, New York. In 1972 at the age of 17 he opened the Gallery in SoHo, Manhattan with his older brother Joe. The gallery provided Nicky with his second djing residency, having djed at the Roundtable nightclub during 1972, a gig he got with the help of Robin Lord. It was at the gallery that Nicky met David Rodriguez who would become his mentor and close friend. - André de Toth
Andre de Toth was an American filmmaker born and raised in Makó, Csongrád, Austria-Hungary. He came to the USA in the 1940s and became established as a workmanlike director whose films, notably his Westerns and films noir, were later hailed for their moody, psychological aspects. A genuinely colourful character (for starters, his real name was Sasvári Farkasfalvi Tóthfalusi Tóth Endre Antal Mihály), … - Yin Shun
Venerable Master Yin Shun (March 12th, 1906–June 4, 2005) was an important figure in modern Mahayana Buddhism. Known as a contemporary master, he was notably known as the mentor of Venerable Master Cheng Yen (Pinyin: Zhengyan), the founder of Tzu-Chi Buddhist Foundation, a charity association that has gained a worldwide presence. Master Yin Shun also helped bring forth the ideal of Humanistic Buddhism, a popular philosophy practiced by many Buddhists. - Rufus Payne
Rufus Payne was an early 20th century American blues musician from Greenville, Alabama who was more widely known by his nickname of Tee Tot. Rufus's nickname of "Tee-Tot" is a pun for "teetotaler". It is said that Rufus received his nickname because he usually carried a homemade mixture of alcohol and tea wherever he went. Tee Tot is best known for being a mentor to Hank Williams, Sr.. - Watson B. Duncan III
Watson B. Duncan III was an American college professor best known for being the mentor of actor Burt Reynolds. Duncan began teaching Speech and English at Palm Beach Junior College in the early days of the college's history, eventually rising to the head of the English department. Reynolds attended Palm Beach Junior College while recuperating at home in Riviera Beach from a football injury he suffered playing for Florida State University. - Robert Baldwin Ross
Robert Baldwin Ross was a journalist and art critic. He is best known, however, as the executor of Oscar Wilde's estate. He was also responsible for bringing together several great literary figures and acting as their mentor. - John A. Sanford
John A. "Jack" Sanford was a Jungian psychoanalyst and Episcopal priest. He worked as a parish priest for 19 years then started private practice as a psychoanalyst focusing on psychology, religion and inner growth. He has been a mentor for Journey into Wholeness since its beginning in 1977. He was the son of Agnes Sanford (1897-1982), the founder of the Inner Healing Movement. - Ehren McGhehey
Ehren McGhehey (born November 29, 1976) is an American daredevil and actor. He is best known as a star of the MTV series "Jackass" and its subsequent films. - Ashwini Bhide Deshpande
Ashwini Bhide Deshpande (born in 1960) is a Hindustani classical music singer in the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana tradition. When Ashwini was five, she started learning music from Pandit Narayanrao Datar. She went on to graduate with a "sangeet visharad" from Gandharva Mahavidyalaya. Her mother, Smt. Manik Bhide, also a Khayal singer, also became her mentor. Ashwini combined her mother's style with her own touch. Currently she is under the tutelage of Pandit Ratnakar Pai, … - Charidemus
Charidemus, of Oreus in Euboea, was a Greek mercenary leader of the 4th century BC. About 367 BC he fought under the Athenian general Iphicrates against Amphipolis. Being ordered by Iphicrates to take the Amphipolitan hostages to Athens, he allowed them to return to their own people, and joined Cotys, king of Thrace, against Athens. Soon afterwards he fell into the hands of the Athenians and accepted the offer of Timotheus to re-enter their service. - Mike Cadogan
Emergency Physician, Rugby Doctor and internet entrepreneur. CEO of HealthEngine.com.au, an health search engine designed to provide rapid contact with health professionals in Australia. CIO of Popfossa.com a world medical and allied health conference / scientific meeting resource. Emergency physician at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and resuscitation doctor for the Western Force. Passionate about medical education and running LifeInTheFastLane.com to help disseminate medical education. - Gary Williams
I work in international IT and change management. See LinkedIn and ecademy for my professional profile, references and resume. I'm an Open Networker open to connect on gary.williams@runbox.com at ecademy.com, plaxo.com, linkedin.com, konnects.com, naymz.com and facebook.com. Email is best to contact me. I work hard, love friends and family, having fun, sport, cars, motorbikes and very loud music. Life is short, you get one shot and I figure I've had more than half of mine already! :-) - Stan Relihan
President & CEO of Expert Executive Search - one of Asia Pacific's best-connected Search, Selection & Recruitment Firms. Also a leading international Headhunter, Neural Networker & Technology Enthusiast; Keynote Speaker; Internet & Web 2.0 Subject Matter Expert; Top 30 LinkedIn 'Power User'.Host of TPN :: The Connections Show, an audio podcast series that puts you ahead of the curve with the latest developments in Social & Business Networking. http://connections.thepodcastnetwork.com - Marcello Cividini
Italian pioneer in Direct Marketing, works at Corriere della Sera up to 1979. Fund raiser and database builder for many United Nations Agencies. Now founder and CEO of Coupon Line a company dedicated to revolutionary targeting technique in retail chains. Journalist and Teacher in Direct Marketing at Master in Brand Communication in Venice Ca' Foscari and Brand Marketing Strategy in Milano Politechnic University. China Partners is a new marketing venture to develop Italian food business in China. - Anilkumar Nair
A never married bachelor graduate engineer with 31 years service in Indian Private sector industries at senior managment levels,now retired and operating as a Project Consultant with ISO Certification/Audit & Tutoring Where there is a will there is a way - Keiiti Aki
Keiiti Aki (March 3 1930 - May 17 2005) was a professor, seismologist, author and mentor. He co-authored with Paul Richards, "Quantitative Seismology: theory and methods". Aki was very active in his field and was the president or chair of many organizations. He was the president of Seismological Section of the AGU, president of the Seismological Society of America, and Chair of the NAS Committee on Seismology. - Felix Blumenfeld
Felix Mikhailovich Blumenfeld, (born 17/19 April 1863, Kovalevka, Kherson - died 21 January 1931 in Moscow) was a Russian composer, conductor and pianist. He studied composition at the St. Petersburg Conservatory under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and piano under Alexander Stein between 1881 and 1885. He then taught piano there himself from 1885 until 1918, whilst also serving as conductor of the Mariinsky Theatre until 1911. - Dr. Peter James
Dr. Peter James aka Boffin1157 born in the late 1950's in the United Kingdom. I currently live, work, and tutor in Northern Romania. I am engaged to Dr. Cristina Felea, teacher, translator and daughter of Romanian Poet & Writer: Victor Felea (1923-1993).Among my numerous qualifications to-date are a degree in Psychology and a 2nd in Forensic Psychology, the latter is my speciality. - Jan de Vos
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Gabrielle Renard, (August 1, 1878 - February 26, 1959), was a French woman who became an important member of the family of the painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, first becoming a nanny and subsequently, a frequent model for the artist. She is recognized as the mentor to Jean Renoir, creating and encouraging his interest in film making. Upon her marriage in 1921 she became, Gabrielle Renard-Slade. Born in Essoyes in the Aube, departement of France, …
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