- Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 - May 14, 1998) was an American jazz oriented popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor. Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid 1940s, being the idol of the 'bobby soxers'. His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. - Derek Jeter
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports New York Yankees SS Derek Jeter 's cleats will be headed to the Hall of Fame. The cleats he wore when he set the record for most hits at Yankee Stadium will be put on display from the 2008 season. - Norman Rockwell
Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 - November 8, 1978) was a 20th century American painter. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States, where Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for "The Saturday Evening Post" magazine over more than four decades. - Buddy Guy
George "Buddy" Guy (born July 30, 1936) is an American blues and rock guitarist and singer. Known as an inspiration to Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and other 1960s blues and rock legends, Guy is considered an important exponent of Chicago blues. He is the father of female rapper Shawnna. Guy is known for his showmanship; for example, he plays his guitar with drumsticks, or strolls into the audience while jamming and trailing a long guitar cord. - Kurt Weill
Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900 - April 3, 1950), was a German, and in his later years German-American, composer active from the 1920s until his death. He was a leading composer for the stage, as well as writing a number of concert works. Over fifty years after his death, his music continues to be performed both in popular and classical contexts. In Weill's lifetime, his work was most associated with the voice of his wife, Lotte Lenya, … - Robert Allen
Robert Allen (February 5, 1928-October 1, 2000) was a pianist and an arranger and writer of music for popular songs. He was born in Troy, New York.He had two daughters (Diana, Katie) who grew up in New Rochelle. He was an accompanist for Perry Como, Peter Lind Hayes, and Arthur Godfrey. Many of his compositions were collaborations with lyricist Al Stillman.One of his most famous songs was "There's No Place Like Home For The Holidays". - Lena Horne
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (born June 30, 1917 in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York) is a popular singer of African-American descent. She has recorded and performed extensively with jazz musicians (notably Artie Shaw, Teddy Wilson), Billy Strayhorn, and Duke Ellington. She currently lives in New York City and no longer makes public appearances (JET, April 2007). She might be best-known for her version of the song "Stormy Weather", … - Rosemary Clooney
Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 - June 29, 2002) was an American popular singer and actress. She was most popular singing Traditional Pop music in the 1940s and 50s with songs like "Come On-a My House". She was the aunt of actor George Clooney, and the sister to former television personality Nick Clooney. - Eddie Guerrero
Eduardo Gory Guerrero (October 9 1967 – November 13 2005) better known by his ring name Eddie Guerrero, was a Mexican-American professional wrestler born into a legendary Mexican wrestling family. Through the 1990s, he had a distinguished career, working for every major professional wrestling promotion in the United States during that period: Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). - John Stevenson
John Stevenson (born 1937) is a British writer who since 1976 has been a regular script writer on Britain's longest running soap opera, Coronation Street. He was originally a newspaper journalist. He also co-wrote the popular comedy drama, Brass with Coronation Street scriptwriter, "Julian Roach" in the 1980s and more recently scripted the sitcom, "Mother's Ruin", starring Roy Barraclough. However, this was not a ratings success and only ran to one series. - David Mann
David Mann (born David Freedman on October 3, 1916 in Philadelphia, died March 1, 2002 in New York City) was an American writer of popular songs. - Leslie Bibb
Leslie Louise Bibb (born November 17, 1974 in Bismarck, North Dakota) is an American actress and former fashion model. - Ryan Murphy
Ryan Murphy is the creator of the hit FX television series "Nip/Tuck", about two upscale Miami plastic surgeons with complex and sometimes twisted personal lives, played by Dylan Walsh and Julian McMahon. Murphy also created the WB network series "Popular", a satirical comedy about high school students, which aired from 1999-2001. Murphy is a graduate of Warren Central High School, Indianapolis, Indiana. - Carly Pope
Carly Pope (born August 28, 1980) is a Canadian actress. - Tom Udall
Thomas Stewart Udall usually called Tom Udall (born May 18, 1948) is an American politician who has represented as a member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999. Tom Udall was born in Tucson, Arizona. He attended Prescott College, graduating with a pre-law degree in 1970. In 1975, he graduated from Cambridge University in England with a Bachelor of Law degree. - Kay Starr
Kay Starr (born July 21 1922) is an American jazz and popular singer. - William Sears
William Sears was a prominent American Bahá'í teacher and writer. Sears was appointed a Hand of the Cause by Shoghi Effendi in the last contingent of Hands prior to his death in 1957. Sears was a United States television and radio personality. He was an extremely popular author in the Bahá'í community. - Cleo Laine
For her modest beginnings as a singer in English dance halls, Cleo Laine has gone on to achieve international acclaim by continually expanding her talents in a career which spans some four decades. One of her biggest breaks was as a featured singer in the John Dankworth London Big Band. The ensuing years found increasing fame in touring and recording music of the world's most popular writers and composers. - Pawan Kalyan
Pawan Kalyan (born September 2, 1971) is a popular Indian film star and director in Andhra Pradesh. He is fondly called as Power Star by his fans.His birth name is Konidala Kalyan. - Sara Rue
Sara Rue (born January 26, 1979 in New York City, New York) is an American actress. She played the roles of "Carmen Ferrara" on the drama "Popular" and "Claudia Casey" on the sitcom "Less Than Perfect". She also guest-starred in 2000 as Joyce, the compulsive overeater sister of Grace Adler (Debra Messing), on the NBC sitcom "Will & Grace". Rue, the oldest of two daughters, was raised in New York City; her parents were active in Broadway theaters. - Wanessa Camargo
Wanessa Camargo is a popular Brazilian singer with a style initially similar to Mariah Carey's (nowaday, similar to Madonna's). She is the daughter of Brazilian country singer Zezé Di Camargo from the duo Zezé Di Camargo & Luciano. She was also the spokesperson for various different brands, such as Maybelline, and several products based on her image targeting young girls (dolls, shoes, make-up) were released. - Kendall Payne
Kendall Payne is a singer/songwriter of Indie rock music. Her first album, "Jordan's Sister", came out in 1999 and sold 100,000 units. One of its songs, "Supermodels," was the theme song for The WB Television Network's teen dramedy "Popular". Another album, "Grown", came out in 2004. Below is a table of her songs that have appeared on movies and TV. - Idan Raichel
Idan Raichel, is an Israeli singer and musician who reached enormous fame and popularity in Israel with his "Idan Raichel Project" (Hebrew: הפרוייקט של עידן רייכל), distinctive for its fusion with ballads, electronics, and incorporation of the voices of the new Ethiopian immigrant community in Israel. Prior to the "Project", Raichel worked as a highly-regarded keyboardist, although he played the accordion as a child. - Jane Morgan
Jane Morgan (born December 25, 1920, Newton, Massachusetts) is an American popular singer, specializing in traditional pop music. She was born Florence Catherine Currier, in Newton, Massachusetts (in the Boston area), a relative of Nathaniel Currier, the 19th century lithographer. Her father was the first cellist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and led an orchestra and string quartet in the months when the Symphony was out of season. - Adam Horowitz
Adam Horowitz is the writer of the television shows "Felicity", "Black Sash", "One Tree Hill", "Popular", "Fantasy Island", "Birds of Prey", "Life As We Know It", and "Lost". Currently in the 2006-2007 season, he's co-executive producer for Lost. He also wrote "Confessions of an American Bride", a made for television movie. - Martin Milner
Martin Sam Milner (b. December 28, 1931) is an American actor best known for his performances in two popular television series, "Adam-12" and "Route 66". He has also appeared in other television series, numerous films, radio dramas, a Broadway play, and even a radio fishing show. - Anthony Montgomery
Anthony T. Montgomery (born June 2, 1971 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA) is an American film and television actor. He is best known in the role of Ensign Travis Mayweather on the television series "Star Trek: Enterprise". Montgomery is the grandson of jazz musician Wes Montgomery. He graduated from Ball State University with a degree in performance theater and drama. Montgomery did stand-up comedy briefly after graduation, before moving to California. - Ed Ames
Ed Ames (born Edmund Dantes Urick on July 9, 1927) is an American popular singer and actor. He is best known for his Pop and Adult Contemporary hits of the 1960s like "When the Snow Is On the Roses". He also was originally part of a popular singing group of 1950s called The Ames Brothers. - Ron Lester
Ron Lester (born August 4, 1970 in Kennesaw, Georgia) is an American actor. Lester is perhaps best known for his roles in the film "Varsity Blues" and the TV show "Popular". He attended North Cobb High School in Kennesaw, where he acted in theater productions. He also participated in local rodeos. Lester's sister died while he was in high school, causing him to consider suicide. His first acting role came when he went to Atlanta, … - Tammy Lynn Michaels
Tammy Lynn Michaels (born Tamara Doring November 26, 1974, in Lafayette, Indiana), also known by the surname Etheridge after partner Melissa Etheridge, is an American actress. Michaels was a regular cast member on the Warner Brothers Network television show "Popular" and guest-starred on the Showtime drama "The L Word". - Andy Russell
Andy Russell was an American popular vocalist, specializing in traditional pop and Latin music. He was born Andrés Rabago Pérez in the Boyle Heights area of East Los Angeles. He was one of ten children (eight boys, two girls) born to parents who were Mexican immigrants of Spanish descent. Already as a teenager he had begun to perform as a vocalist and drummer with a local band headed by Don Ramon Cruz. - Ryoji Ikeda
Japan's leading electronic composer/artist, Ryoji Ikeda, focuses on the minutiae of ultrasonics, frequencies and the essential characteristics of sound itself. For the past six years, Forma has produced and toured all of Ikeda's exhibition and performance projects worldwide. Since 1995, Ikeda has been intensely active through concerts, installations, and recordings, integrating sound, acoustics and sublime imagery. - Georgia Gibbs
Georgia Gibbs (August 17 1919 - December 9 2006) was an American singer, most popular in the 1950s. - Ron Nelson
Ron Nelson is a composer of both classical and popular music and a retired music academic. He was born in Joliet, Illinois, on December 14, 1929. After earning bachelors, masters, and doctoral degrees from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester in New York, he went to Paris on a Fulbright Scholarship, where he studied at the Ecole Normale de Musique and the Paris Conservatory. In 1956, Nelson joined the faculty of Brown University in Providence, … - Mamta Mohandas
Mamta Mohandas (born 1985 in Bahrain) is a popular Malaylam actress. She attended the Indian School, Bahrain till 2002. Mamta, who originally hails from Kozhikode, Kerala, grew up in Bahrain and is currently undertaking a degree at Mount Carmel, Bangalore. Before films, Mamta was modelling for quite some time, doing both print ads for such names as IBM and Kalyan Kendra and on the ramp for the Mysore Maharajah and Raymonds. Mamta is trained in Karnatic and Hindustani music. - Sheree North
Sheree North (January 17, 1932 - November 4, 2005), born Dawn Shirley Crang, was an actress and singer who appeared in numerous Broadway shows, Hollywood movies, and television. Born to Richard Crang and June Shoard in Los Angeles, California, her stepfather was Edward Bethel. She was known as "Dawn Bethel" until she changed her name to "Sheree North". She married at age 16, and had her first child, Dawn Bessire at the age of 17. In 1953, … - Ella Mae Morse
Ella Mae Morse was an American popular singer. She was hired by Jimmy Dorsey when she was 14 years old. Dorsey believed she was 19, and when he was informed by the school board that he was now responsible for her care, he fired her. In 1942, at the age of 17, she joined Freddie Slack's band, with whom in the same year she recorded "Cow Cow Boogie" Capitol Records' first gold single. She also originated the wartime hit "Milkman, Keep Those Bottles Quiet", … - Pat Sharp
Pat Sharp, sometimes nicknamed Patman, (born October 25 1961) is an English radio and television presenter and disk jockey. In Britain he is known mainly for his work on 1990s childrens' television programme "Fun House", and his radio shows, while in continental Europe he was best remembered as the most famous of Sky Channel's VJs. He was awarded the Sony Award in 1992 for best DJ. Sharp is married and has three children. - Kitty Kallen
Kitty Kallen (born 25 May 1922) was an American popular singer, who sang with a number of big bands in the 1940s, coming back in the 1950s to score her biggest hit, 1954's "Little Things Mean a Lot". Born in Philadelphia to a Jewish family, she won an amateur contest as a child doing imitations of some singers of the day. When she brought her prize (a camera) home, her father refused to believe her and thought she had stolen the camera, so he punished her severely. - Clinton Ford
Clinton Ford (born Ian George Stopford Harrison, 4 November 1931, in Salford, Lancashire) was a popular British singer of the 20th century. He began his recording career as Clinton Ford with the Oriole record label, where he recorded his best-known song, "Fanlight Fanny". His career outlasted many of his contemporaries, with his singles appearing in the UK Singles Chart over a span of more than eight years.
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