- Michael Shaara
Michael Shaara (June 23, 1928 - May 5, 1988) was an American writer of science fiction, sports fiction, and historical fiction. He was born to Italian immigrant parents (the family name was originally spelled Sciarra) in Jersey City, New Jersey, graduated from Rutgers University in 1951, and served as an airborne infantry officer in the Korean War. Before Shaara began selling science fiction stories to fiction magazines in the 1950s, …
- Allen B West
Allen B West is a retired American army officer and candidate for the United States Congress in Florida. West, who was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, currently resides in Florida with his wife Angela and his daughters Aubrey and Austen.
- Tom Diaz
Tom Diaz is a senior policy analyst at the Violence Policy Center and is one of the more prominent advocates for a strict system of federal gun control in the United States. The son of a career Army officer, Tom Diaz is a graduate of the University of Florida and the Georgetown University Law Center, where he was an editor of the Law Journal. He has been in private and government practice since 1972. Mr.
- Chester R. Bender
Chester R. Bender (March 14, 1914 - July 20, 1996) served as the fourteenth Commandant of the United States Coast Guard from 1970 to 1974. He also served as Superintendent of the Coast Guard Academy from 1965 to 1967.
- Gregorio Reyes
Gregorio Reyes is a private investor and a Management Consultant; co-founded "Sunward Technologies" in 1985 and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer until 1994. Gregorio is a Silicon Valley legend, an immigrant from Cuba who became a successful technologist in the semiconductor and disk drive industries. Gregorio has experience primarily in the areas of data storage and magnetic recording, semiconductors and telecommunications.
- Alex Sink
Adelaide "Alex" Sink is Chief Financial Officer of Florida. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Sink is a former president of the Florida Banking Division of NationsBank (now Bank of America). She was appointed by former Governor Lawton Chiles to the Commission on Government Accountability to the People, and also served on Governor Chiles’ Commission on Education.
- Kelly Perdew
Kelly Crawford Perdew (born January 29,1967) of Carlsbad, California was the winner of the second season of "The Apprentice".
- Charles Peter McColough
Charles Peter Philip Paul McColough (August 1 1922 - December 13 2006) was a former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board at the Xerox Corporation. He retired in the late 1980s, after serving over 25 years as CEO. Aside from building Xerox to the corporate empire it is today, McColough was Chairman of United Way of America, and served on the Board of Trustees at New York Stock Exchange, Bank of New York, Wachovia, Citibank, and Union Carbide Corporation.
- Bruce McMahan
David Bruce McMahan (born May, 1939) is the chief executive officer of convertible securities firm McMahan Securities Co. L.P., as well as President, Manager and owner of a majority of the membership interests in Veritas-Scalable Investment Products Fund LLC. He is also known for his charitable work.
- Tom Gallagher
Tom Gallagher (born February 3, 1944) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Florida. He is a Republican and most recently held the position of Chief Financial Officer of the State of Florida. He recently lost the Primary election against state Attorney General Charlie Crist for the Republican nomination in the 2006 gubernatorial race. He was succeeded by Alex Sink in January 2007.
- Ravi Desai
Ravi Desai was the founding Editor in chief who became the CEO of TheStreet.com, a post he held for 4 months before being fired by Jim Cramer for myriad reasons, including blackmail. Desai pledged $2 million to the University of Washington and another $2 million to the University of Florida, along with $1 million to the University of New Hampshire poetry programs. No university ever received more than several thousand dollars of the pledge.
- Daniel A. Mica
Daniel Andrew Mica (born February 4, 1944 in Binghamton, New York, United States) is a Democratic politician, former US Representative from Florida's 11th district, and the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Credit Union National Association.
- Francis Rooney
Francis Rooney was sworn in as the U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See on October 13, 2005. Francis Rooney is the former Chief Executive Officer of Rooney Holdings, Inc., an investment and holding company based in Naples, Florida, with administrative offices in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
- Gerard John Schaefer
Gerard John Schaefer (March 25, 1946 - December 3, 1995) was a serial killer from Florida, USA. He was imprisoned in 1973 for murders he committed as a police officer. While he was convicted of two murders, he was suspected of many others. Schaefer frequently appealed against his conviction, yet privately boasted - both verbally and in writing - of having murdered over 30 women and girls.
- Peter Monroe
Peter Monroe (born August 25, 1943), was a Republican U.S. Senate Candidate in the state of Florida. He is a real-estate developer and an attorney. He was an appointee by the first President Bush to a post steering the federal government's bailout of the savings and loan industry. He went on to serve with United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp as the Chief Operating Officer at the Federal Housing Administration (FHA).
- Allen Boyd
F. Allen Boyd Jr. (born June 6 1945) is an American politician, and has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1997, representing (map). His district includes all of Bay, Gulf, Calhoun, Jackson, Liberty, Gadsden, Franklin, Wakulla, Taylor, Suwannee, Lafayette, and Dixie Counties. The district also includes most of Leon and Jefferson Counties. Allen Boyd is a Blue Dog Democrat.
- Al Goldstein
Alvin "Al" Goldstein (b. January 10 1936, New York City) is an American publisher and pornographer. Goldstein founded the tabloid "Screw" magazine. He was also the host and producer (with radio personality Alex Bennett) of "Midnight Blue", a New York leased-public access cable television series. His company, Milky Way Productions, home of "Screw" and his long-running cable show, "Midnight Blue", went into bankruptcy in 2004.
- Stirling Moss
Sir Stirling Moss OBE (born September 17, 1929 in London) is a British former racing driver from England. His success in a variety of categories placed him among the world's elite - he is often called "the greatest driver never to win the World Championship". Moss, who raced from 1948 to 1962, won 194 of the 497 races he entered, including 16 Formula One Grands Prix. He once told an interviewer that he had participated in 525 races overall, as many as 62 in a single year, …
- Frank Jack Fletcher
Frank Jack Fletcher (April 29 1885 - April 25 1973) was an admiral in the United States Navy during World War I and World War II. Fletcher was the operational commander at the pivotal Battles of Coral Sea and of Midway. He was the nephew of Admiral Frank Friday Fletcher.
- Spessard Holland
Spessard Lindsey Holland was an American politician. He was the 28th governor of Florida from 1941 until 1945, during World War II. After finishing his term as governor, he was a United States Senator from Florida from 1946 until 1971. A lifelong Democrat, he never lost an election.
- John Loftus
John Joseph Loftus (born February 12, 1950, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American author, former US government prosecutor and former Army intelligence officer. He is a president of The Intelligence Summit and a president of the Florida Holocaust Museum, the first Irish Catholic president of that institution. Loftus serves on the Board of Advisers to Public Information Research. He is a resident of St. Petersburg, Florida.
- Sam Gibbons
Sam Melville Gibbons (born January 20, 1920) is a politician from the state of Florida, who served in the Florida State House of Representatives, Florida State Senate, and the U.S. House of Representatives.
- Scott Speicher
Michael Scott Speicher was a U.S. Navy pilot whose F/A-18 Hornet fighter was reportedly shot down by an air-to-air missile fired from an Iraqi MiG-25 the first night of Operation Desert Storm on January 17, 1991; since then there has been no evidence of his death, nor any evidence that he is still alive. There is much controversy over the possibility that he might have survived and been taken prisoner by the Iraqis.
- Charles H. Percy
Charles Harting "Chuck" Percy was chairman of the Bell & Howell Corporation from 1949 to 1964 and Republican United States Senator for Illinois from 1967 to 1985.
- Heywood L. Edwards
Heywood Lane Edwards (9 November 1905 - 31 October 1941) was an officer of the United States Navy. He was one of the first American casualties of World War II, more than a month before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Edwards was born in San Saba, Tex., 9 November 1905 and graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1926. After serving in battleship "Florida" (BB-30), destroyer "Reno" (DD-303) and other ships, …
- C. Farris Bryant
Cecil Farris Bryant (July 26 1914-March 1 2002) was the thirty-fourth governor of Florida. He also served on the United States National Security Council and in the Office of Emergency Planning during the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson. Born in Marion County, Florida, he attended Ocala High School before going on to Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia from 1931 to 1932.
- George S. Rentz
George Snavely Rentz (July 25, 1882 - March 1, 1942) was a United States Navy chaplain who served during World War I and World War II. For selfless heroism following the loss of USS Houston (CA-30) in the Battle of Sunda Strait, he was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross- the only Navy Chaplain to be so honored during World War II. Born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, George Rentz graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary.
- Bobby Clarke
Robert Earle Clarke, OC (born August 13, 1949 in Flin Flon, Manitoba), better known as Bobby Clarke, is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey center who played his entire National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Philadelphia Flyers. During his 15 season playing career, he led the Flyers to two Stanley Cups and was awarded the Hart Trophy as league MVP three times. A 1987 inductee into the Hockey Hall of Fame, …
- Baldomero Lopez
Baldomero Lopez was a First Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for smothering a hand grenade with his own body during the Inchon Landing, on September 15 1950. Baldomero Lopez was born in Tampa Bay, Florida. He was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy, and upon graduating June 6, 1947, was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps. He attended The Basic School at Quantico, Virginia, …
- Terry Smiljanich
Terry Smiljanich is a lawyer. Smiljanich served as editor of the University of Florida Law Review and as a law clerk to Federal District Judge Ben Krentzman in Tampa from 1972 to 1974. He was also an Assistant United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida from 1974 to 1977. Smiljanich served in the United States Army Reserves from 1972-1981, and became a captain. He acted as counsel to the United States Senate during the Iran-Contra hearings.
- Edward J. Gurney
Edward John Gurney was an American politician from Florida, where he served as a Representative and a United States Senator. He was a member of the Republican Party. Gurney was born in Portland, Maine. He attended public schools and went on to Harvard Law School in 1938. He was admitted to the Bar of New York the following year and began practicing law in New York City.
- Arthur L. Wagner
Arthur Lockwood Wagner (March 16, 1853-June 17, 1905) was a United States brigadier general and military instructor Born in Ottawa, Illinois, Wagner graduated from West Point near the bottom of his class with a commission in the infantry. While serving on the frontier, Wagner saw action of the western plains and mountains during the campaigns against the Souix, Nez Perce continuously onward from 1866 until 1877 and during the Utes in 1881.
- Christopher A. Sinclair
Christopher A. Sinclair (b. September 5 1950, Hong Kong) is an American businessman. He is the executive chairman and CEO of Cambridge Solutions Ltd., the second largest BPO/IT company in the world. He is also the founder and chairman of Scandent Group, the privately owned holding company which owns Cambridge Solutions Ltd. Scandent Group owners and investors include: Sinclair, Edgar Bronfman, Sr. (fmr.
- Kenneth Roberts
Kenneth Lewis Roberts was an American author of historical novels. After serving as an Army lieutenant during the American Siberian campaign in the Russian Civil War in 1919, Roberts worked first as a journalist, and then as a popular novelist. Born in Kennebunk, Maine, Roberts specialized in Regionalist historical fiction. He often wrote about his native state and its terrain, also depicting other upper New England states and scenes.
- Charles Whitman
Charles Joseph Whitman was a student at the University of Texas at Austin who shot and killed 14 people (including those who survived the initial shooting but later died as a result of their injuries) and wounded 31 others from the observation deck of the University's Main Building of The University of Texas at Austin on August 1, 1966, after murdering his wife and mother, and before being shot by Austin police.
- Roy Marlin Voris
Captain Roy Marlin "Butch" Voris (September 19 1919-August 10 2005) was an aviator in the United States Navy, a World War II flying ace, and founder of the Navy's flight demonstration squadron, the Blue Angels. During his 22-year naval career Voris flew everything from biplanes to modern jets, and afterward was instrumental in the development of the Navy's F-14 Tomcat strike fighter and NASA's Apollo Lunar Module (LM), both produced by the Grumman Aerospace Corporation.
- Charles Manigault Morris
Charles Manigault Morris (7 May 1820 - 22 March 1895) was an officer in the United States Navy and later in the Confederate States Navy. He was a descendant of Lewis Morris{Great Grandsonand was also a descendant of Ralph Izard(Great Grandson}. Morris was born in South Carolina, entered the United States Navy as a midshipman in December 1837. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in 1851 and resigned his commission in January 1861.
- Pete Peterson
Douglas Brian "Pete" Peterson was a US Air Force pilot who spent over six years (September 10, 1966–March 4, 1973) as a prisoner of the Vietcong after his plane was shot down during the Vietnam War. He returned to Hanoi in 1997 as the first U.S. ambassador to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, with the goal of securing an account of those still listed as missing in action from the war. He was an ambassador until 2001.
- Billy Bowlegs
Billy Bowlegs (ca. 1810 – ca. March 10, 1864) was a leader of the Seminoles in Florida during the Second and Third Seminole Wars against the United States. One of the last Seminole leaders to resist, he eventually moved to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), where he fought on the side of the Union Army during the American Civil War as a captain.
- Claude R. Kirk Jr.
Claude Roy Kirk, Jr. (born January 7, 1926) was the thirty-sixth governor of Florida. He was the first Republican to hold the office of governor since 1877. Claude Kirk was born in San Bernardino, California. He lived in Chicago, Illinois, and Montgomery, Alabama where he attended high school. After graduating at age seventeen, he enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps and rose to the rank of lieutenant. Kirk served in both World War II and the Korean War.