- Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (Can) (30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman, orator and strategist, Churchill was also a soldier in the British Army. He has been studied to a unique extent as part of modern British and world history. - Jordan Officer
Jordan Officer (born November 29, 1976 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Montreal based jazz / blues / country musician. Jordan Officer is the son of James Officer and Patricia Simon. He grew up in Montreal, studying violin, and later bagpipes, and eventually guitar which is now his main instrument. His first bands were mostly blues, but as a sideman played various styles, with acts such as Michael Jerome Browne, the Stephen Barry Band, Mack MacKenzie, Grouyan Gombo, … - Paul Officer
Paul Officer was the Personal Protection Officer to the Prince of Wales from 1969 to 1981. Officer was made an MVO in 1982. He was born in 1940 and joined the Metropolitan Police in 1960. He was a station sergeant when he was first appointed to protect the Prince, and rose to be a Superintendent in 1981. He retired in 1983, after which he became Director of Civil Defence in New Zealand. - Jill Officer
Jill Officer (born June 2, 1975 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian curler from Brandon, Manitoba. Officer plays second for the 2005 Scott Tournament of Hearts champion team skipped by Jennifer Jones. Officer has played for Jones since Juniors. Their team won the Canadian Junior Curling Championships in 1994. She won the Scott Tournament of Hearts with Jones in 2005. Officer is a freelance writer and motivational speaker. - Edward Cairns Officer
Edward Cairns Officer (1871 - 1921) was an Australian artist. Officer was born at Murray Downs, Swan Hill, Victoria. He was the third son of Suetonius Officer and his wife, a daughter of the Rev. Adam Cairns. His grandfather, Sir Robert Officer, was speaker of the Tasmanian house of assembly for many years. Officer was educated at Toorak College and the National Gallery, Melbourne. From there he went to Paris and studied at Julien's. - Jessica Alba
Jessica Marie Alba (born April 28, 1981) is an American actress. Alba rose to prominence with the television series Dark Angel, then expanding her résumé to film, predominantly within the confines of action and comedy. Alba appears frequently on the "Hot 100" section of Maxim and was voted AskMen.com's number one on their list of "99 Most Desirable Women" in 2006, as well as "Sexiest Woman in the World" by FHM in 2007. - Ehud Olmert
Ehud Olmert ; born September 30, 1945) is the 12th and current Prime Minister of Israel. Olmert became Prime Minister on April 14, 2006 but had been exercising the powers of the office since they were transferred to him on January 4, 2006 after Ariel Sharon suffered a severe hemorrhagic stroke. Olmert's title for that period was Acting Prime Minister. Olmert has previously been the Vice Prime Minister of Israel, Finance minister, Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor, … - April Fool
"April Fool" is the codename for the spy and double agent who allegedly played a key role in the downfall of the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. According to General Tommy Franks, the commander of the U.S. military in the 2003 Iraq war, "April Fool", an American officer, was approached by an Iraqi intelligence agent working undercover as a diplomat. "April Fool" then sold to the Iraqi false "top secret" invasion plans provided by Franks' team. - Jim Webb
James Henry "Jim" Webb, Jr. (born February 9, 1946) is the junior Senator from Virginia. He is also an author and a former Secretary of the Navy under President Ronald Reagan. He is a member of the Democratic Party. A 1968 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Webb was a Marine Corps infantry officer until 1972, and is a highly decorated Vietnam War combat veteran. During his four years with the Reagan administration, … - Rodney King
Rodney Glen King (born April 2, 1965 in Sacramento, California) is an African-American taxi driver who became famous after his violent arrest by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) was videotaped by a bystander, George Holliday. The incident raised a public outcry among people who believed it was racially motivated. - William Penn
William Penn (October 14, 1644 - July 30, 1718) founded the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony that became the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Well ahead of his time, Penn wrote and urged for a Union of all the English colonies in what was to become the United States of America. The democratic principles that he set forth in the Pennsylvania Frame of Government served as an inspiration for the United States Constitution. - Cate Blanchett
Born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1969, Cate Blanchett began her career in theatre, after graduating from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1992. ... Cate's first high-profile, international role was lead in the 1998 movie Elizabeth, for which she won Best Actress awards at both the BAFTAs and Golden Globes, plus an Academy Award nomination. - Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage Biography is an online resource for finding information on the famous movie actor. Includes famous quotes , biographical information , celebrity news and gossip, and pictures of Nicolas Cage . Nicolas Cage was born as "Nicolas Kim Coppola " Nicolas Cage Birthday - 7th of January (born 1964) Nicolas Cage is a major Hollywood movie actor that has been starring in hit movies since the early 1980s. - Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his children's books, including "The Jungle Book" (1894), "The Second Jungle Book" (1895), "Just So Stories" (1902), and "Puck of Pook's Hill" (1906); his novel, "Kim" (1901); his poems, including "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), and "If—" (1910); and his many short stories, … - Ray McGovern
Ray McGovern is one of the founders of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity and worked as a CIA analyst for 27 years. He tells Steve Paulson that the Bush administration "cooked" the intelligence provided by the CIA to serve its policy ends. Victor Navasky , publisher of The Nation magazine tells Steve Paulson that the track record of the intelligence agencies does not justify curtailing civil liberties. He thinks secret intelligence should be revealed to the public. - Sibel Edmonds
Sibel Deniz Edmonds is a Turkish-American former FBI translator and founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC). Edmonds was fired from her position as a language specialist at the FBI's Washington Field Office in March, 2002, after she accused a colleague of covering up illicit activity involving foreign nationals, alleging serious acts of security breaches, cover-ups, and intentional blocking of intelligence which, she contended, … - John Wood
John Wood (1812 - November 14, 1871) was a Scottish naval officer, surveyor, cartographer and explorer, principally remembered for his exploration of central Asia. Wood was born in Perth, Scotland. After schooling at Perth Academy, he joined the British Indian Navy and soon demonstrated a flair for surveying. Many of the maps of southern Asia which he compiled remained standard for the rest of the nineteenth century. - Leonard Nimoy
Born in Boston, Massachusetts to Ukrainian-Jewish immigrants, Leonard Nimoy spent much of his early career in the 1950s doing small parts in B-movies, TV shows such as 'Dragnet', and serials such as Republic Pictures 'Zombies of the Stratosphere' in 1952. - Idi Amin
Idi Amin Dada (mid-1920s -16 August 2003) was an army officer and president of Uganda. Amin joined the British colonial regiment, the King's African Rifles, in 1946, and advanced to the rank of Major General and Commander of the Ugandan Army. He deposed Milton Obote and took power in a military coup in January 1971. His reign was characterized by human rights abuses, political repression, ethnic persecution, extrajudicial killings and the expulsion of Asians from Uganda. - Bill Ritter
August William "Bill" Ritter, Jr. (born 1956-09-06) is a U.S. Democratic politician, the former District Attorney for Denver, Colorado, and the current Governor of the State of Colorado. He is the first native-born governor of Colorado in 35 years, as well as being the first to serve with a Democratic majority in the Colorado General Assembly in 50 years. - Terry Pratchett
Terence David John Pratchett OBE (28 April 1948) is an English fantasy and science fiction author, best known for his "Discworld" series. Other works include the "Johnny Maxwell Trilogy" and the "Bromeliad Trilogy". He also closely collaborates on adaptations of his books, for example, computer games and plays. Pratchett started to write by the age of 13 and his first work was published commercially at the age of 15. - Craig Mundie
Craig Mundie Image Gallery: A collection of images of Microsoft Chief … A collection of images of Microsoft Chief Research and Strategy Officer Craig Mundie . … Angeles: Microsoft Chief Research & Strategy Officer Craig Mundie … - Joe Louis
Joseph Louis Barrow, best known as Joe Louis and nicknamed The Brown Bomber, a native of Lexington, Alabama, is regarded as one of the greatest heavyweight boxing champions of all time. He held the title for over 11 years, recording 25 successful defenses of the title. In 2003, "Ring Magazine" rated Joe Louis No. 1 on the list of 100 greatest punchers of all time. - T. E. Lawrence
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO (August 16, 1888 - May 19, 1935), known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British soldier renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt of 1916-18, but whose vivid personality and writings, along with the extraordinary breadth and variety of his activities and associations, have made him the object of fascination throughout the world as "Lawrence of Arabia". - John McCarthy
"Big" John Michael McCarthy, the 'Octagon's ninth side', is a referee for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, a Los Angeles Police Officer, and a Tactical Self-Defense Instructor at the Los Angeles Police Academy. McCarthy is the most senior referee in the UFC and is well-known for his delivery of "Let's get it on!" - a now-trademarked phrase shouted at the start of bouts. McCarthy served as referee for nearly every fight in the UFC from UFC 2 until UFC 31, … - John Franklin
Rear Admiral Sir John Franklin FRGS (April 15, 1786 - June 11, 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer who mapped almost two thirds of the northern coastline of North America and whose last expedition disappeared while attempting to chart and navigate a section of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic. The entire crew perished from starvation and exposure after Franklin died and the expedition's icebound ships were abandoned in desperation. - Alan Alda
Alan Alda (b. January 28, 1936) is a five-time Emmy Award-winning, six-time Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated American actor. He is perhaps most famous for his role as Hawkeye Pierce in the television series "M*A*S*H". During the 1970s and 1980s he was viewed as the archetypal sympathetic male, though in recent years he has appeared in roles which counter that image. - Timothy Leary
Timothy Francis Leary, (October 22, 1920 - May 31, 1996) was an American writer, psychologist, advocate of psychedelic drug research and use, and one of the first people whose remains have been sent into space. As a 1960s counterculture icon, he is most famous as a proponent of the therapeutic and spiritual benefits of LSD. He coined and popularized the catch phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out." - Brian Paddick
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Brian Leonard Paddick (born April 24, 1958 in Balham) is a senior officer in the Metropolitan Police in London. He is the United Kingdom's most senior openly gay police officer. - John Richardson
John Richardson was a British Army officer was the first Canadian-born novelist to achieve international recognition. He was born at Queenston, Ontario on the Niagara River in 1796. His mother Madelaine was the daughter of the fur - trader John Askin and an Ottawa woman. His father Dr Robert Richardson was a surgeon with the Queen’s Rangers. As a young boy he lived for a time with his grandparents in Detroit and later with his parents at Fort Malden, Amhertsburg. - John Barnes
John Barnes (c 1746 - 30 April 1810) was an army officer and politician in the British army who came to Canada as part of the reinforcements against the Americans in 1776. He was elected to the 1st Parliament of Lower Canada in 1792 in the riding of William Henry. He spent his time supporting the English party until the end of the 1st parliament in 1796. - David Keith
David Keith (born May 8, 1954) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actor and director. He was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. - John Lawrence
John Gordon Michael Lawrence (29 September 1915 - 14 November 2002) was a leading far left activitist in a wide variety of groups in the United Kingdom. - George Clinton
George Clinton (c.1686 - 10 July 1761) was a British naval officer and political leader who served as the colonial governor of Newfoundland in 1731 and of New York from 1743 to 1753. Clinton was the youngest son of the 6th Earl of Lincoln and connected by marriage to the Duke of Newcastle and Henry Pelham. He joined the Royal Navy in 1708 and served for 35 years. In 1732, he was commissioned as a commodore and appointed governor of Newfoundland, … - Charlie Parker
Charles Warrington Leonard "Charlie" Parker (born October 14, 1882 in Prestbury, Gloucestershire, died July 11, 1959 in Cranleigh, Surrey) was an English cricketer who stands as the third highest wicket taker in the history of first class cricket, behind only Wilfred Rhodes and Tich Freeman. Parker took no serious attention to cricket in his childhood, preferring to concentrate on golf. - Marc Dann
Dann earned a bachelor of arts degree in 1984 from the University of Michigan and a law degree in 1987 from Case Western Reserve University . Dann practiced law in Youngstown, Ohio, and became active in Democratic Party politics. His disciplinary record as attorney consisted of a single reprimand from the Ohio Supreme Court for handling a 2002 alimony case without proper preparation. - John Berger
John Peter Berger (born November 5, 1926) is an art critic, novelist, painter and author. The best-known among his many works include the novel "G.", winner of the 1972 Booker Prize, and the introductory essay on art criticism "Ways of Seeing", written as an accompaniment to a significant BBC series of the same name, and often used as a college text. - Steve White
Steve White is an American science fiction author best known as the co-author of the Starfire-series alongside David Weber. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia and also works for a legal publishing company. He previous served as a United States Navy officer and served during the Vietnam War and in the Mediterranean region. He has also written the "Prince of Sunset" and its sequel "Emperor of Dawn". - Henry Jones
Henry Jones was an officer in the United States Army during World War II. He is best known as a First Lieutenant in Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division, the unit that is the subject of the book "Band of Brothers" by Stephen Ambrose. In the BBC/HBO miniseries adaptation of the book, Jones was portrayed by Colin Hanks. - John Stanley
Charles John Stanley (January 17, 1712 - May 19, 1786) was an English composer and organist.
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