- John Riccitiello
John Riccitiello is the CEO of Electronic Arts. He received his B.S. degree from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. He then worked in a variety of consumer product companies including the The Clorox Company (Brand Manager]], PepsiCo (Group Marketing Director), Haagen-Dazs International (Managing Director), Wilson Sporting Goods (President and Chief Executive Officer), and Sara Lee Corporation (President and Chief Executive Officer, Bakery Division). - Wernher von Braun
Dr. Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (March 23 1912 - June 16 1977) was one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Germany and the United States. The German scientist, who led Germany's rocket development program (V-2) before and during World War II, entered the United States at the end of the war through the then-secret Operation Paperclip. - Red Auerbach
Arnold Jacob "Red" Auerbach (September 20 1917 - October 28 2006) was a highly successful and influential basketball coach of the BAA Washington Nationals, the NBA Tri-Cities Blackhawks and the NBA Boston Celtics. In the closing stages of his career, he worked as a front office executive and president of the Celtics until his death. As a coach, the son of an Russian Jewish immigrant won 938 games, a record at his retirement, and won nine titles with the Celtics, … - Nativo Lopez
Lawrence "Nativo" Lopez (born 1951) is a Chicano political leader and immigrant rights activist in Southern California. Lopez is the president of the Mexican American Political Association and the executive director of the Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana (formerly the Hermandad Mexicana Nacional), a community service and advocacy organization for Mexican-American immigrants in California. - T. K. Wetherell
Dr. Thomas Kent "T. K." Wetherell (December 22, 1945 -) is a Florida educational administrator and former politician. He has been president of Florida State University (FSU) since January 6, 2003. - Judy Genshaft
Judy Lynn Genshaft is the current president of the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. Originally from Ohio, Genshaft has lived in Florida for many years, and has been the president of the University of South Florida since 2000. She has previously held administrative positions at University at Albany and Ohio State University. - Larry Kellner
Lawrence W. "Larry" Kellner (born 1959) has been CEO of Continental Airlines since December 2004. He previously served as a vice president, chief financial officer and chief operations officer for the airline. Kellner grew up in Sumter, South Carolina. He graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1981 with a degree in accounting. He resides in Houston, Texas. - Amanda Congdon
Amanda Congdon, born 1981 in New York City, is the co-producer and host of a weekly vidcast for ABC. She has an independent videoblog, "Starring Amanda Congdon". She is also co-president of Oxmour Entertainment along with Mario Librandi and was the host of Amanda Across America before it concluded. - Cecil O. Samuelson
Cecil Osborn Samuelson, Jr. (b. August 1, 1941) has been the 12th president of Brigham Young University since May 1, 2003. Prior to this appointment he had been a professor of medicine at the University of Utah, dean of the school of medicine there, and vice president of health services. Samuelson's full-time service to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began in 1994 when he was made a General Authority and appointed to the First Quorum of the Seventy. - Paul Sereno
Paul Callistus Sereno (born October 11, 1957) is an American paleontologist who is the discoverer of several new dinosaur species on several continents. He has conducted excavations at sites as varied as Inner Mongolia, Argentina, Morocco and Niger. He is a professor at the University of Chicago and a National Geographic "explorer-in-residence." The son of a mailman, Paul grew up in Naperville, Illinois. - Iain Torrance
The Very Reverend Iain Torrance, is President of Princeton Theological Seminary and a former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. He is married to Morag Ann (née MacHugh), whom he met while they were students at the University of St Andrews, and they have a son, Hew, and a daughter, Robyn. - William F. Ballhaus Jr.
Dr. William F. Ballhaus, Jr. is an American engineer. On May 1, 2001, he was appointed president and chief executive officer of The Aerospace Corporation, an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to the objective application of science and technology toward the solution of critical issues in the nation’s space program. He previously worked for Lockheed Martin Corporation, Martin Marietta Corporation and was director of NASA's Ames Research Center. - Jack Hirshleifer
Jack Hirshleifer (August 26, 1925 - July 26, 2005) was an American economist and long-time professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received a B.S. from Harvard University in 1945 and a Ph.D. in 1950. He worked at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica from 1949 to 1955. He then taught at the University of Chicago from 1955 to 1960, and at UCLA until 2001. Hirshleifer was well-known for his work on uncertainty and information in economics, … - Edwin Alderman
Edwin Anderson Alderman (born May 15, 1861 in Wilmington, North Carolina; died April 30, 1931 in Connellsville, Pennsylvania) served as the President of three universities. Edwin A. Alderman Elementary School is named after him. Alderman graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1882. He became a schoolteacher in Goldsboro, North Carolina, and then superintendent of the school district there. - Azriel Rosenfeld
Professor Dr. Azriel Rosenfeld (February 19, 1931 - February 22, 2004) was an American Research Professor, a Distinguished University Professor, and Director of the Center for Automation Research at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland, where he also held affiliate professorships in the Departments of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Psychology. He held a Ph.D. in mathematics from Columbia University (1957), … - Francis Preston Venable
Francis Preston Venable (b. November 17, 1856, Farmville, Virginia; d. March 17, 1934, Chapel Hill, North Carolina) was a chemist, educator, and president of the University of North Carolina (UNC). His father, Charles Scott Venable, was aide-de-camp to Gen. Robert E. Lee from 1862 to 1865 and professor of mathematics at the University of Virginia from 1865 to 1896. In 1879, Venable earned a master's degree in chemistry from the University of Virginia. - Gordon McBean
Dr. Gordon McBean is a Canadian climatologist who serves as chairman of the board of trustees of the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences. He is a professor at the University of Western Ontario and Chair for Policy in the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction. Previously he was the Assistant Deputy Minister of Meteorological Service of Canada. In 1995, McBean gave a speech to the World Meteorological Organization on global warming. - Kelly Perdew
Kelly Crawford Perdew (born January 29,1967) of Carlsbad, California was the winner of the second season of "The Apprentice". - Richard Pestell
Richard G. Pestell is an American physician currently employed as Director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, an NCI-designated Cancer Center. Dr. Pestell has authored more than 270 original publications and book chapters and more than 175 published abstracts. His papers have been published in outstanding peer reviewed journals including Cell (journal), Science (journal), Nature Medicine, and EMBO. - George Washington
George Washington was a central and critical figure in the founding of the United States, and is commonly referred to as father of the nation. He led America's Continental Army to victory over Britain in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), and in 1789 was elected the first President of the United States of America. He served two four-year terms from 1789 to 1797, winning reelection in 1792. - Bob Corker
Robert Phillips "Bob" Corker, Jr. (born August 24, 1952) is the junior United States Senator from Tennessee. He was formerly the mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee and a successful businessman. He is the only freshman Republican Senator in the 110th Congress. - C. Robert Henrikson
Carl "Rob" Robert Henrikson (born c. 1947), is Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of MetLife, Inc. Henrikson was appointed CEO on March 1, 2006 and Chairman of the Board on April 25, 2006. He is actively involved as a thought leader in the industry, and has testified at a number of congressional hearings on retirement, pension and employee benefits matters. Henrikson is a board member of the American Council of Life Insurers, … - Les Aspin
Leslie "Les" Aspin, Jr. (July 21, 1938 - May 21, 1995) was a United States Congressman from 1971 to 1993, and the United States Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton from January 21, 1993 to February 3, 1994. - Yakov Smirnoff
Yakov Smirnoff is, according to his own description, a Ukrainian-born American comedian and painter. - Tom Juravich
Tom Juravich is a professor of Labor Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is also director of the UMass Amherst Labor Relations and Research Center (LRRC), and director of the LRRC's Union Leadership and Administration program. Juravich is also a musician and labor movement activist. - Patrick Naughton
Patrick Naughton is one of the original creators of the Java programming language at Sun Microsystems. He is also the original developer of the popular Unix screensaver "xlock". He authored the book The Java Handbook and co-authored the book Java: The Complete Reference. He was also the Chief Technology Officer and President of Starwave and CTO for Disney's Disney Internet Group and Executive Vice President of Products for Go.com and Infoseek. - Bernard Chazelle
Bernard Chazelle (born November 5, 1955) is a professor of computer science at Princeton University. Although he is best known for his invention of the soft heap data structure and the most asymptotically efficient known algorithm for finding minimum spanning trees, most of his work is in computational geometry, where he has found many of the best-known algorithms, such as linear-time triangulation of a simple polygon, as well as many useful complexity results, … - Morton Ann Gernsbacher
Morton Ann Gernsbacher is Vilas Research Professor & Sir Frederic Bartlett Professor of Psychology at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is also the president of the Association for Psychological Science. - Tony Conigliaro
Anthony Richard Conigliaro (January 7, 1945 - February 24, 1990), nicknamed "Tony C" and "Conig", was a Major League Baseball outfielder and right-handed batter who played for the Boston Red Sox (1964-67, 1969-1970, 1975) and California Angels (1971). He was born in Revere, Massachusetts and was a 1962 graduate of St. Mary's High School (Lynn, Massachusetts). In his 1964 rookie season, Conigliaro batted .290 with 24 home runs and 52 RBI in 111 games, … - E. Fuller Torrey
Edwin Fuller Torrey, M.D. (b.September 6, 1937, Utica, New York), is an American psychiatrist and schizophrenia researcher. He is Associate Director for Laboratory Research at the Stanley Medical Research Institute (SMRI). Torrey is president of the board of the Treatment Advocacy Center (TAC), … - Stanley Falkow
Stanley Falkow, PhD, is microbiologist and a professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is sometimes referred to as the father of molecular microbial pathogenesis, which is the study of how infectious microbes and host cells interact to cause disease at the molecular level. He formulated molecular Koch's postulates, which have guided the study of the microbial determinants of infectious diseases since the late 1980s. - Salvador Allende
Salvador Isabelino Allende Gossens (July 26, 1908 – September 11, 1973) was President of Chile from November 1970 until his death, reportedly by suicide, during the coup d'état of September 11, 1973. Allende's career in Chilean government spanned nearly forty years. As a Socialist Party and Marxist politician, he became a senator, deputy, cabinet minister and after failing in the 1952, 1958, … - Dare Obasanjo
Dare Obasanjo is a Program Manager at Microsoft where he works on the Contacts team. The Contacts team provides back-end support for Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Spaces, Windows Live Expo, and related services. Obasanjo is also known for RSS Bandit, a popular .NET-based RSS reader he wrote on a whim. He is the son of the former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo. - Allan Higdon
Allan L. Higdon served as acting mayor of Ottawa, Canada from July 2000 to 2001. Born in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, he immigrated to Canada in 1957. He received a BA from Queen's University in English and History and received a Bachelor's of Education from the University of Toronto. He then worked with the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. He would later move to Ottawa after living in Toronto and southeast Asia, where he would teach high school. - George Andreas Papandreou
Georgios Andreas Papandreou, Greek politician, has been leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) party since February 2004. The son and grandson of Greek prime ministers, he was Foreign Minister of Greece from 1999 to 2004. In 2006 he became President of the Socialist International. - Michael Crescenz
Michael Joseph Crescenz (January 14, 1949 - November 20, 1968) was a United States Army Corporal (Cpl) during the Vietnam War who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions near the Hiep Duc village of Vietnam on November 20, 1968. Michael J. Crescenz (pronounced with a French inflection) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on January 14, 1949. He graduated from Cardinal Dougherty High School in 1966. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in February 1968. - Burt Kaliski
Burton S. "Burt" Kaliski, Jr. is a cryptographer, currently chair of the office of the CTO and vice president of research at RSA Security, and chief scientist of its research center, RSA Laboratories. His notable work includes the development of such public key cryptography standards as PKCS and IEEE P1363, the extension of linear cryptanalysis to use multiple approximations, and the design of the block cipher Crab. - Deb Markowitz
Deborah "Deb" Markowitz is the incumbent Secretary of State of Vermont. She was first elected in 1988 and was reelected to a fifth term in November 2006. She is a member of the Democratic Party. - Edward James Roye
Edward James Roye (February 31815-February 111872) was an American-Liberian political figure whose brief 1870-71 tenure as President of Liberia ended with his overthrow and subsequent violent death. Edward Roye was born into a prosperous family in Newark, Ohio. His father, John Roye, managed a ferry across the Wabash River at Terre Haute, Indiana and, through conservative management of his resources, … - Leo Breiman
Leo Breiman was a distinguished statistician at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the recipient of numerous honors and awards, and was a member of the United States National Academy of Science. Breiman's work bridged the gap between statisticians and computer scientists, particularly in the field of machine learning. Perhaps his most important contributions were his work on classification and regression trees and ensembles of trees fit to bootstrap samples.
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