- Rahm Emanuel
Rahm Emanuel (born November 29 1959) is an American politician. He has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 2003, representing (map), which covers much of the North Side of Chicago and parts of suburban Cook County. Emanuel was chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for the 2006 elections. After the Democratic Party regained control of the House, he was elected as the next chairman of the Democratic Caucus, …
- Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848-January 13, 1929) was an American farmer, teamster, sometime buffalo hunter, officer of the law in various Western frontier towns, gambler, saloon-keeper, and miner. He is best known for his participation in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, along with Doc Holliday, and two of his brothers, Virgil Earp and Morgan Earp. Wyatt Earp is the major subject of various movies, TV shows, biographies and works of fiction.
- Isaac Stern
Isaac Stern was one of the finest violin virtuosi of the twentieth century. Born in Kremenetz, Ukraine on July 21, 1920, Isaac Stern was ten months old when his family moved to San Francisco. He received his first music lessons from his mother before enrolling at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 1928. He studied there until 1931, then studied privately with Louis Persinger.
- Steve Chen
Steve Chen (born 1944 in Taiwan) is a computer engineer and pioneer. Chen is the founder and CEO of Galactic Computing, a developer of supercomputing blade systems, based in Shenzhen, China. Chen holds a M.S. from Villanova University and a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is best known as the principal designer of the Cray X-MP multiprocessor supercomputer. Chen left Cray Research in 1987.
- Yvonne Craig
Yvonne Joyce Craig (born May 16, 1937 in Taylorville, Illinois) is an American actress best known as Batgirl from the 1960s TV series "Batman".
- Helmut Jahn
Helmut Jahn (b. January 4, 1940) is a German-American architect, designer of dozens of major buildings throughout the world. Some of the better known among his creations are the US$800 Million Sony Center on the Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, the Messeturm in Frankfurt and the One Liberty Place, the tallest building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Jahn was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1940.
- Charlie Adams
Charlie Adams is an American drummer, percussionist, and drum engineer who has been drum lead for Yanni through nine major concert tours. Yanni and Adams have recorded 14 albums that have gone platinum and double platinum. He is widely recognized for his drum solo on the "Yanni Live at the Acropolis" video, the second best-selling music video of all time.
- Armando Ghitalla
Armando Ghitalla (June 1, 1925 - December 14, 2001) was an American orchestral trumpeter. He studied at the Juilliard School, and performed in the New York City Opera, the New York City Ballet, and the Houston Symphony. He was a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for twenty eight years, and served as principal trumpet (succeeding Roger Voisin) for fifteen.
- Larry Nemmers
Larry Nemmers is an American football official in the National Football League (NFL) since the 1985 NFL season. Nemmers began his officiating in the NFL as a side judge and was promoted to referee for the start of the 1991 NFL season. Nemmers wears the uniform number 20. Nemmers, the eldest of nine children, is a native of Waterloo, Iowa and a 1960 graduate of Columbus High School in Waterloo. There he was a good friend of future professional baseball player, Virg Erickson.
- Stuart Dempster
Stuart Dempster , born in Berkeley, California in 1936, studied performance and composition at San Francisco State College. From 1962-66 he was principal trombone in the Oakland Symphony under Gerhard Samuel and, since 1968, he has been on the faculty of University of Washington.
- Douglas Otto
Dr. Douglas Otto is the current Superintendent of Schools for the Plano Independent School District. Otto completed his Bachelor's degree in business education from Illinois State University. He also received a Master's degree and Doctorate degree in educational administration from the same university. Otto began his career as a business education teacher in Dundee, Illinois. He then became a high school principal in Taylor Ridge, Illinois.
- Artie Matthews
Artie Matthews (November 15, 1888 - October 25, 1958) was a songwriter, pianist, and ragtime composer. Artie Matthews was born in Braidwood, Illinois; his family moved to Springfield, Illinois in his youth. He learned to play piano, mostly popular songs and light classics, until he heard ragtime played by a pianist named Banty Morgan about 1905. Matthews was fascinated and immersed himself in ragtime and started playing and writing numbers in the style.
- James Garfield
James Abram Garfield was a major general in the United States Army, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and the twentieth President of the United States. He was the second U.S. President to be assassinated - Abraham Lincoln was the first. Garfield had the second shortest presidency in U.S. history, after William Henry Harrison's. Holding office from March 5 to September 19, 1881, President Garfield served for a total of six months and fifteen days.
- David Liptak
David Liptak was born in 1949 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- Levy N. Rivers
Levy has 35 years of experiences in sales, marketing, training and planning, concentrating in the areas of leadership, business and civic development. Levy is the Master Coach and Principal Consultant of Phronêsis Inc consulting and its coaching network.
- Jesse Burr Strode
Jesse Burr Strode (b. 1845- d. 1924) was a Nebraska Republican politician. He was born in Fulton County, Illinois on February 18, 1845 and graduated from Abingdon College in Abingdon, Illinois. During the American Civil War he enlisted in Company G, Fiftieth Regiment, of the Illinois Volunteer Infantry serving from September 10, 1861 to the end of the war. He returned to Abingdon first becoming principal of the schools from 1865 to 1873, …
- Aries Spears
To book artists and talent such as Aries Spears for your corporate event, convention, or fundraiser, just use our Find Talent Form or Contact us . Aries Spears was born on April 3rd, 1975, in Chicago, Illinois. At the age of seventeen, Mr. Spears felt that public education had nothing more to offer him and left to pursue a career in stand-up comedy.
- Jim Verraros
Jim Verraros auditioned for the first season of American Idol at the suggestion of a friend while he was attending Columbia College as a musical theater major in Chicago. Jim was undoubtedly one of the most talented and talked about contestants to ever appear on the hit Fox TV show American Idol. Jim placed 9th on the first season and become one of the most memorable contestants to ever appear on the hit show.
- Mary A Burkett
- John W. Henry
John William Henry (born September 20, 1949 in Quincy, Illinois), a hedge fund manager who founded John W. Henry & Company. He is also the principal owner of the Boston Red Sox and co-owner of Roush Fenway Racing. In March 2006, Boston Magazine estimated his net worth at $860 million, but noted that his company had recently had difficulties. In May 2007, reports in the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg noted further difficulties with the firm.
- Pius Cheung
Pius Cheung (born 1982) is a marimbist and composer.
- James Tobin
James Tobin (March 5, 1918 - March 11, 2002) was an American economist. Tobin advocated and developed the ideas of Keynesian economics. He believed that governments should intervene in the economy in order to stabilise output and avoid recessions. His academic work included pioneering contributions to the study of investment, monetary and fiscal policy and financial markets. Furthermore, he proposed an econometric model for censored endogenous variables, …
- Bernard Shaw
Bernard Shaw (born May 22, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois) was a leading news anchor for CNN from 1980 to his retirement in 2001. He attended the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1963 to 1968. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps. Shaw is widely remembered for the question he posed to Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Michael Dukakis at his second Presidential debate with George H. W. Bush during the 1988 election, which Shaw was moderating.
- D. A. Weibring
Donald Albert "D.A." Weibring, Jr. (born May 25, 1953) is an American professional golfer who has won numerous tournaments including several on the PGA Tour and Champions Tour. Weibring was born in Quincy, Illinois. His father started him playing golf at a young age. Weibring graduated from Illinois State University in 1975 and turned pro that same year. Weibring won five PGA Tour events. His first was in 1979 at Quad Cities - an event he would win twice.
- David Truman
David Bicknell Truman (1913-2003) was is an American academic who served as the 15th president of Mount Holyoke College from 1969-1978. He is also know as for his role as a Columbia University administrator during the Columbia University protests of 1968.
- John Martinson
John Martinson As founder and Managing Partner, John Martinson , shapes Edison’s overall investment strategy. He mentors rising investment professionals and assists general partners in growing their regional and industry practices. John also actively leads Edison’s investments in information technology companies serving the pharmaceutical industry and education. As a board member, he contributes expertise in strategy, marketing and business planning.
- Michael Erskine
Michael Erskine, Principal Michael has experience in landscape planning and design, construction management, and real estate sales. He has provided planning, design, technical analysis, construction administration, and quality control services for residential projects, mixed-use developments and four season resorts.
- Frank Rosenwein
Oboe player. Play with the most amazing orchestra. Love getting up in the morning. Unless none of my reeds work. Live in Shaker Heights. Much love for C town. Have an awesome family. Dad's a lawer, mom's a medieval historian, twin sister is a French teacher. She sometimes sends me oboe students from her high school. Got a sweet girlfriend who also plays oboe. Small world. She lives in LA and has her own dressing room. Not that I'm jealous.
- Bryce Youngren
Bryce Youngren is a general partner at Polaris Ventures where he focuses primarily on growth equity investments in the technology, healthcare, media and business services industries. Prior to joining Polaris, Bryce was a senior associate at Great Hill Partners, where he led investment research initiatives in the areas of storage services and web hosting.
- Sascha Meinrath
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- Skip Gray
Skip Gray 's UK Tuba-Euphonium Studio Skip Gray joined the faculty of the University of Kentucky School of Music in the fall of 1980 and was promoted to the rank of Professor of Music in 1991. He has appeared as a tuba soloist and clinician throughout North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia. He has also served as Principal Tuba with the Lexington Philharmonic since 1980.
- Aaron Marcus
Aaron Marcus Mr. Marcus is the founder and President of Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. (AM+A). A graduate in physics from Princeton University and in graphic design from Yale University, in 1967 he became the world's first graphic designer to be involved full time in computer graphics.
- Nancy Kete
Nancy Kete is a Senior Fellow and Director of EMBARQ -The WRI Center for Transport and Environment. Prior to joining WRI, she was a senior policy advisor in the U.S. government on matters of air pollution, global warming, and the interface of trade and environment issues.
- Joseph Baber
Joseph Baber has been an award-winning member of ASCAP since 1971, and has received a number of national prizes and commissions. Of his many local commissions, two of the most noteworthy heve come from Toyota Motor Manufacturing of Georgetown, one for its grand opening in 1988 and one for the Kentucky All-State Honors High School Touring Orchestra, which the corporation sponsored.
- John P. Katsantonis
HECK, I dunno...seems like I did all this once before!!?? Major writer/journalist/PR Flack/musician, have jammed with the best (...and, to a certain extent, the worst....) in the biz. Have performed with members of Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Doobie Bros, and Supertramp. And yes, those would be in the "best" category. I won't name names, in the WORST zone. ::))
- James M. Mullady
- Larry Dwyer
Larry Dwyer is a graduate of Notre Dame, where he was Outstanding Bandsman (1966), trombone soloist all four years with the concert band, and twice named "Best Trombonist" at the Collegiate Jazz Festival. He earned his Masters degree in music education and did doctoral studies at the University of Illinois.
- Mary Rose Strubbe
- Laurie Leader
- Jeffrey B. Frishman