- Dr. Phil
Phillip Calvin "Phil" McGraw, (born September 1, 1950), best known as Dr. Phil, is a four-time Emmy Award-nominated television personality who is the host of the popular American psychology TV show "Dr. Phil", who gained celebrity status following appearances on "The Oprah Winfrey Show". McGraw is noted for his Texas accent and for his one-finger wave to his wife Robin, in the audiences at the beginning of every show. - Robert de Niro
Robert Mario De Niro Jr., credited professionally as Robert De Niro (born August 17, 1943), is an American film actor, director, and producer. He is noted for his method acting and portrayal of conflicted, troubled characters, for his enduring collaboration with director Martin Scorsese and for his early work with director Brian De Palma. - Tim Robbins
Timothy Francis Robbins (born October 16, 1958) is an American Academy Award-winning actor, screenwriter, director, producer, activist and small time musician. He is the longtime partner of actress Susan Sarandon, with whom he shares strong liberal political views. - Harvey Keitel
Harvey Keitel (born May 13, 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor from New York City. - David Geffen
David Lawrence Geffen (born February 21, 1943) is an American record executive, film producer, theatrical producer, philanthropist. Geffen is noted for creating Asylum Records in 1970 (which merged with Elektra Records in 1972 to form Elektra/Asylum Records), and Geffen Records in 1980, along with his later role as one of the three founders of Dreamworks SKG in 1994. According to "Forbes" magazine, he is a billionaire. - Danny Sullivan
Danny wrote Yahoo Surveys Search Rewards Idea where he covers a News.com article showing how a group of Yahoo! Mail users were offered "10 different potential reward options" to take a Yahoo! search survey. Kinda funny, I told them they should do this at last years SES San Jose conference - that they don't have to necessarily pay money to get answers. I am sure it wasn't my influence, since it did take almost a year to implement. - Dante Alighieri
Durante degli Alighieri, better known as Dante Alighieri or simply Dante, (May 14/June 13 1265 - September 13/14, 1321) was an Italian poet from Florence. His central work, the "Commedia" ("The Divine Comedy"), is considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature. In Italian he is known as "the Supreme Poet" ("il Sommo Poeta"). - Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson is a founder and Managing Partner of Union Square Ventures. Fred began his career in venture capital in 1987 and he has focused exclusively on information technology investments for the past 16 years. From 1987 to 1996, Fred was first an Associate and then a General Partner at Euclid Partners, an early stage venture capital firm located in New York City. In 1996, Fred co-founded Flatiron Partners. - Frank Harris
Frank Harris (February 14, 1856 - August 27, 1931) was an Irish-American author, editor, journalist and publisher who was friendly with many well-known figures of his day. Though he attracted much attention during his life for his irascible, aggressive personality, editorship of famous periodicals, and friendship with the talented and famous, he is remembered mainly for his multiple-volume memoir "My Life and Loves", … - Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane is the author of the New York Times bestseller Mystic River; Prayers for Rain; Gone, Baby, Gone; Sacred; Darkness, Take My Hand; and A Drink Before the War, which won the Shamus Award for Best First Novel. A native of Dorchester, Massachusetts, he lives in the Boston area. - Bruce Hornsby
Bruce Randall Hornsby (born November 23, 1954 in Williamsburg, Virginia) is an American singer, pianist, accordion player, and songwriter. Known for the spontaneity and creativity of his live performances, Hornsby draws frequently from classical, jazz, bluegrass, folk, motown, rock, blues, and jam band musical traditions with his songwriting and the seamless improvisations contained within. - Bill Joy
Bill Joy served as Sun's Chief Scientist until 2003, and is now a partner with venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. - John Porter
John Edward Porter (b. June 1, 1935) is a former United States Representative from Illinois. Porter was born in Evanston, Illinois, was educated in public schools, and then attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology for one year before receiving a B.S. and B.A. from Northwestern University in 1957. He then received his Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree at the University of Michigan Law School in 1961, and was admitted to the Illinois bar that same year. - Herb Alpert
Herbert "Herb" Alpert (born March 31, 1935 in Los Angeles, California) is an American musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass or as Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass or just TJB for short - a now-defunct brass band of which he was the leader. - Henry Kravis
Henry R. Kravis (born January 6 1944 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States) is an American business financier and investor, notable for co-founding and heading the leading private equity firm, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR). With an estimated current net worth of around $3 billion, he is ranked by "Forbes" as the 107th richest person in the world. - Guy Clark
Guy Clark is a songwriter and performer who often performs in the country style. He was born in Monahans, Texas, and his early musical influences were the Spanish music and songs he heard in West Texas. He is married to songwriter and artist Susanna Clark. Clark achieved success as a songwriter with Jerry Jeff Walker’s recordings of "L.A. Freeway" and "Desperados Waiting For A Train." Artists such as Johnny Cash, Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs, … - William Lerach
William "Bill" Shannon Lerach (b. 1946 in the Ohio River Valley in the Midwestern United States) is an American lawyer who specializes in class action lawsuits. Lerach was formerly a partner in the indicted law firm Milberg Weiss. He left that firm in 2004 to form Lerach Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins. According to a June 2007 statement, in which he alluded to the ongoing investigation of Milberg Weiss, … - Andreas Seppi
Andreas Seppi (born February 21, 1984 in Bolzano-Bozen, Italy) is a professional tennis player from Italy, who turned professional in 2002. This year so far Seppi has reached 1 final (Gstaad) in ATP Tour events this year, 2 semi finals (Sydney & Nottingham), and 3 quarter finals (Adelaide, Valencia & Zagreb). He is coached by Massimo Sartori. - Dave White
Dave White (born June 7, 1964 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire) is an American writer, music critic, and film critic. White is a prolific freelance writer; his reviews, interviews, and critical analysis of films, music, and pop culture has been featured in The Village Voice, Instinct, The Advocate, Glue, and Frontiers, among others. His writing stint as a music critic for Instinct began as a result of a letter to the editor about their existing coverage of music. - Michael Ramirez
Michael Patrick Ramirez (born May 11, 1961) is an American Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist. His cartoons present a conservative viewpoint. Ramirez was born in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from the University of California, Irvine, in 1984 with a bachelors degree. He has worked for "The Commercial Appeal" of Memphis for seven years and then for the "Los Angeles Times". In 1994, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. - Clive Thompson
Sir Clive Thompson (born 4 April 1943) (aka "Mr 20%" or "That Unreconstructed Thatcherite") was Chairman of European Home Retail (EHR), a company which went into administration in October 2006, owing money to thousands of members of its Christmas savings club. EHR supported its financial difficulties by moving money from its subsidiary Farepak. - Michael Moritz
Michael Moritz (born Cardiff, Wales, 1954) is a venture capitalist with Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California in the Silicon Valley, and a former member of the board of directors of Google inc. He was educated at Howardian High School, Cardiff before moving on to Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated as a Master of Arts in history. In 1978, he received a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. - Rick Moody
Rick Moody (born Hiram Frederick Moody, III on October 18 1961, New York City), is an American novelist and short story writer best known for "The Ice Storm" (1994), a chronicle of the dissolution of two suburban Connecticut families over Thanksgiving weekend in 1973, which brought widespread acclaim, and became a bestseller; it was later made into a feature film. His first novel "Garden State" (1992) won the Pushcart Editor's Choice Award. - Ernesto Bertarelli
Ernesto Bertarelli (born 22 September 1965) is a Swiss / Italian businessman and yachtsman. Born in Rome, Bertarelli was CEO and Deputy Chairman of Serono, a Swiss biotechnology company he inherited from his father. Serono was sold to Merck KGaA of Germany in September 2006 for US$13.3 billion, forming a new company Merck-Serono. His personal wealth was estimated by Forbes' List of billionaires (2007) at US$8.8 billion. - Cherry Jones
Cherry Jones (born November 21, 1956) is a Tony Award-winning American actress. Born in Paris, Tennessee, Jones is known primarily for her stage work, including her Tony-winning lead performances in Lincoln Center's 1995 production of "The Heiress" and John Patrick Shanley's play "Doubt", which opened at the Walter Kerr Theatre in March 2005. - Susan Hockfield
A graduate of the University of Rochester, Dr. Hockfield received her Ph.D. in neuroscience from the Georgetown University School of Medicine. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California at San Francisco, she joined the scientific staff at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 1980. - Jack Quinn
Jack Quinn (born August 16, 1949) is an American lawyer and political figure. He served as White House Counsel to U.S. President Bill Clinton from 1995 to 1996. Quinn was born and grew up in New York. He attended Georgetown University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1971. - Charles Baxter
Charles Baxter is a writer's writer. Mention his name in a crowd of authors and most will voice an appreciation for at least one of his books; many will simply rave. But it wasn't until Baxter's third novel that large numbers of mainstream readers discovered the joys of his writing. A 2001 National Book Award finalist, The Feast of Love "is as precise, as empathetic, as luminous as any of Baxter's past work," the New York Times cheered. - Leslie Feinberg
Leslie Feinberg (born 1949) is a transgender activist, speaker, and author. Feinberg is a high ranking member of the Workers World Party and a managing editor of Workers World newspaper. Feinberg's writings on LGBT history, "Lavender & Red," frequently appear in the "Workers World" newspaper. Feinberg's partner is the prominent lesbian poet-activist Minnie Bruce Pratt. - Juan Antonio Samaranch
Don Juan Antonio Samaranch i Torelló, Marquis of Samaranch is a Spanish sports official and was president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from 1980 to 2001. He was a close friend of Spanish dictator, Francisco Franco. - Charlene Barshefsky
Charlene Barshefsky served as United States Trade Representative, the country's top trade negotiator, from 1997 to 2001. Prior to that, she was the Deputy USTR from 1993 to 1997. Under Bill Clinton in 1999, she was the primary negotiator with China's Zhu Rongji, laying out the terms for China's eventual entry into the World Trade Organization. She is a now a partner at the Washington, … - Andrew Dismore
Andrew Hartley Dismore BA (Hons) (born September 2, 1954) British politician and solicitor He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Hendon in London. Andrew Dismore was born in Bridlington, North Yorkshire, the son of a hotelier, and educated locally at the Bridlington Grammar School before attending the University of Warwick where he received a Bachelor of Laws in 1975,and the London School of Economics where he was awarded his Master of Laws in 1976. - Martin Khor
Martin Khor (born 1951 in Penang, Malaysia) is a journalist, economist and Director of the Third World Network which is based in Penang, Malaysia. He is active in civil society movement. He has attended the World Social Forum (WSF 2003, 2002), european social forum (2004) and in 1999 and 2000, the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. He is also a member of the UN Secretary-General Task Force on Environment and Human Settlements since 1997, … - Pete Dexter
Pete Dexter (born 1943) is an American novelist He was the recipient of the 1988 National Book Award for Fiction for his novel "Paris Trout". - Theodore Olson
Theodore Bevry Olson (born September 11, 1940) was the 42nd United States Solicitor General, serving from June 2001 to July 2004. Born in Chicago, Olson completed his undergraduate degree at the University of the Pacific. After earning his law degree from Boalt Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, he worked as an associate and a partner in the Los Angeles, CA office of the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. - Roelof Botha
Roelof Botha is a venture capitalist. He began his career as an actuary. He was the CFO of PayPal. Now he works for Sequoia Capital and sat on the board of directors of YouTube before its acquisition by Google. Botha sits on the board of Insider Pages, Meebo, and Xoom. Botha graduated from Stanford Business School in 2000. He also attended the University of Cape Town where he did a BSc in Actuarial Science, Economics, and Statistics. - Stan Kasten
Stan Kasten is one of the most experienced and highly regarded executives in professional sports. Prior to being named president of the Washington Nationals, he was TBS Vice-President for sports teams and President of the Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Hawks, and Atlanta Thrashers, as well as Chairman of Philips Arena. Mr. Kasten holds a 1995 World Series Championship and his Braves and Hawks teams have made a combined 30-playoff appearances and captured 15 division titles. - Heidi Julavits
Heidi Julavits is an American author and co-editor of "The Believer" magazine. She has been published in "Esquire", "Story", "Zoetrope All-Story", and "McSweeney’s Quarterly". Her novels include "The Mineral Palace" (2000), "The Effect of Living Backwards" (2003), and "The Uses of Enchantment" (2006). - Ari Emanuel
Ariel "Ari" Emanuel is a prominent talent agent and founder of the Endeavor Agency in Beverly Hills, California. He represents Larry David, Michael Moore, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Mark Wahlberg, among others. His stature in the industry has prompted various homages and parodies over the years, including *Bob Odenkirk's character "Stevie Grant" on The Larry Sanders Show and the character Ari Gold, played by Jeremy Piven, on the HBO television show "Entourage" - Guy Oseary
Guy Oseary (born 1972 in Jerusalem, Israel) is an Israeli-American businessman. He is best known as the CEO of Maverick Records and as Madonna's co-manager as well as manager for American Idol runner-up, Katharine McPhee. Oseary attended Beverly Hills High School and started working with Madonna at age 17 to found Maverick Records. Oseary is the godfather of Madonna and Guy Ritchie's son Rocco. Oseary is best known as the CEO of Maverick Records.
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