- Michael T. Sauer
Michael Thomas Sauer (born 1937) is a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge. He is best known for sentencing socialite Paris Hilton to 45 days in jail for violating terms of her probation. He was previously a Deputy City Attorney for Los Angeles, California and unsuccessfully argued the famous "Cohen v. California" case before the United States Supreme Court.
- Corey Clark
Corey Delaney Clark (born July 13 1980 in San Bernardino, California) is an American singer who was a disqualified finalist in the second season of "American Idol" in 2003.
- Joey Buttafuoco
Joseph "Joey" Buttafuoco (born March 11, 1956) made headlines in 1992 for his affair with a then underage Amy Fisher, who subsequently shot Joey's wife, Mary Jo Buttafuoco, in the face. Although deafened in one ear and partially paralyzed, Mary Jo survived the shooting and was able to give a description of a t-shirt her assailant had been wearing. The t-shirt, emblazoned with the logo of Buttafuoco's auto body shop in Baldwin, New York, USA, …
- Kristine Cecava
Kristine Cecava is a Cheyenne County, Nebraska district judge who garnered media attention for sentencing a man to probation for two felony child sexual assault charges, a sentence viewed by many as being too lenient. In May, 2006, Judge Cecava sentenced Richard W. Thompson to 10 years probation, instead of a prison term. Her reason for the probation was that she believed Mr. Thompson, who is 5' 1" and 50 years old, would not survive prison.
- John Augustus
John Augustus (1785-June 21, 1859) was a Boston boot maker who is called the "Father of Probation" in the United States because of his pioneering efforts to campaign for more lenient sentences for convicted criminals based on their backgrounds. Augustus efforts is credited with the establishment of the Presentence Investigation. Augustus was born in Woburn, Massachusetts.
- John Huang
A major figure in the 1996 United States campaign finance controversy, John Huang worked for Lippo Bank in California, Worthen Bank in Arkansas, and as deputy assistant secretary for international economic affairs in U.S. President Bill Clinton's Commerce Department before he became a chief fundraiser for the Democratic National Committee in 1996.
- Robert Iler
Robert Iler (born March 2, 1985 in New York, New York) is an American actor, best known for his portrayal of A.J. Soprano on "The Sopranos". On July 4, 2001, when Iler was 16 years old, he and three others were arrested on Manhattan's Upper East Side for robbing $40 from two Brazilian tourists. Iler was charged with second degree robbery as well as marijuana possession which carried up to 15 years in prison.
- Charlie Trie
Yah Lin "Charlie" Trie (b. August 15, 1949), a major figure in the 1996 United States campaign finance controversy, was convicted and sentenced to three years probation and four months home detention for violating federal campaign finance laws by making political contributions in someone else's name and by causing a false statement to be made to the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
- James Porter
James Porter (January 2, 1935 - February 11, 2005) was a Roman Catholic priest who molested at least 125 children of both sexes over a period of 30 years, starting in the 1960s.
- Quanell X
Quanell X (born Quanell Abdul Muhammad on December 7 1970 in Los Angeles, California) is a member of the New Black Panther Party and a community activist in Houston, Texas. His parents were both Nation of Islam members from Los Angeles. After his parents' divorce, Quanell moved to Houston with his mother and younger brother. In May 1989, Quanell spent a brief time in jail and received 10 years probation for possessing and dealing crack cocaine.
- Lee Tamahori
Lee Tamahori, born 17 June 1950 in Wellington, New Zealand, is best known as a film director, although he got his start as a commercial artist and photographer in the late 1970s. Tamahori is of Māori ancestry on his father's side and of British ancestry on his mother's. His break as a filmmaker came with "Once Were Warriors" (1994), a gritty depiction of urban Māori life that was phenomenally successful in New Zealand.
- Scott Savol
Scott Thomas Savol (born April 30, 1976) is an American singer and was the 5th place finalist on the fourth season of "American Idol". He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, although claims to be from Shaker Heights, Ohio because he attended school there. Scott is the father of a 4-year-old son (Brandon). He also plays the trumpet and has performed at city and church functions.
- Anderson Hunt
Anderson Hunt (born in Detroit, Michigan) is a retired American basketball player, perhaps best known as the UNLV Runnin' Rebels shooting guard when the Rebels won the 1990 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship and appeared in the Final Four in 1991. He was also named the tournement's Most Outstanding Player. He left the school as a junior after the 1991 season to enter the NBA Draft, much to the dismay of his coach, Jerry Tarkanian, …
- Ousmane Zongo
Ousmane Zongo was a Burkinabé arts trader living in New York City. He was shot and killed by New York City Police Department officers while unarmed in a chance run-in with police during a warehouse raid on May 22, 2003. Police had targeted the Manhattan storage facility while investigating a CD and DVD pirating operation. Zongo repaired art and musical instruments at the same location but was never linked to the pirating scheme.
- Brian Deneke
Brian Deneke (March 9, 1978 - December 12, 1997) was a person who listened to American punk and was from Amarillo, Texas, USA, who became well-known after his untimely murder in 1997, at the age of 19. Brian Deneke was born and raised in Amarillo, TX. While growing up, Brian was a Boy Scout and a Kwahadi Dancer. He attended Crockett Middle School in his early teens.
- Tron
Boris Floricic, better known by his pseudonym Tron (June 8, 1972 - 17-22 October, 1998), was a German hacker and phreaker whose death in unclear circumstances has led to various conspiracy theories. He is also known for his diploma thesis presenting one of the first public implementations of a telephone with built-in voice encryption, the "Cryptophon". Floricic's pseudonym was a reference to the central character in the 1982 Disney film "Tron".
- David Durenberger
David Ferdinand Durenberger (born August 19, 1934) is an American politician and a former Republican member of the U.S. Senate from Minnesota. Durenberger was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota. He attended St. John's University and graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1959. He served in the United States Army from 1956 to 1963. On November 7, 1978, Durenberger was elected in a special election to complete the unexpired term of Senator Hubert Humphrey, …
- Brian Salcedo
Brian Salcedo was convicted in 2004 of computer fraud and conspiracy for accessing a home improvement chain's wireless LAN in an attempt to recover credit card numbers. Adam Botbyl and Paul Timmins initially discovered an open Wi-Fi access point at the Lowe's store in Southfield, Michigan. Months later, Botbyl returned with Salcedo and gained access to the computer system used by the Lowe's chain of home improvement stores.
- Billy Tibbetts
Billy Tibbetts (born October 14, 1974 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a professional hockey player who last played on the Boston Bruins roster. On September 18, 2006, Tibbetts was officially released from the club. Previously, he had played for the New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins of the NHL.
- Whitman Mayo
Whitman Mayo was an African-American actor best known for playing the character Grady Wilson on the American television sitcom "Sanford and Son". Noted for portraying characters older than his actual age, Whitman Mayo was in his early 40s in the early 1970s when he first played the sexagenarian "Grady" on "Sanford and Son" — a role that popularized the expression "Great Googly Moogly!" Nearly thirty years later, …
- Frederic Seaman
Frederic ("Fred") Seaman was a personal assistant to John Lennon and Yoko Ono, during the former Beatle's final years, when Lennon and Ono lived in The Dakota Apartments in New York City. Seaman is author of "The Last Days of John Lennon: A Personal Memoir", a book detailing his time as Lennon's private aide (initially published as "John Lennon, …
- George Rivas
George Rivas (born May 6, 1970) was the ringleader of the infamous Texas 7 criminal group. Rivas, a career criminal, is on Texas' death row. He was born in El Paso, Texas and raised by his grandparents from age six, after his parents divorced. In high school, Rivas dreamed of being a police officer, but his interest in money and guns helped shape him into a criminal. He named his dogs Ruger and Beretta, after two gun brands.
- Carl Freer
Carl Freer (born 9 May 1970) was a director of Gizmondo Europe which went bankrupt in February 2006. Freer is the largest private donator of Nordens Ark in Sweden. Nordens Ark is a private non-profit foundation dedicated at assisting in providing a future for endangered animals through breeding programmes, reintroduction programmes, research and information. Freer claims to have cut off all ties to Eriksson and is currently working on several Telco technology projects.
- Joshua Gardner
Joshua Adam Gardner (born September 4, 1983) received media attention when he misrepresented himself to the students and staff of Stillwater Area High School as a fictional fifth Duke of Cleveland from England. Student journalists became suspicious and began researching Gardner's story.
- Manfred van H.
Manfred van H. a.k.a. "Mahavo" (born 1944; his full name has not been made public) is a German retiree and political activist from Senden, Germany. On February 23, 2006, he was convicted in a court in Lüdinghausen of "defamation of religious convictions in a manner suitable to disturb the public peace". He was sentenced to one year in prison (on probation for five years) and to 300 hours of community service.
- Seth Steed Jeffs
Seth Steed Jeffs is the son of former FLDS prophet Rulon Jeffs, as well as the brother of the religion's current FLDS leader and FBI fugitive Warren Jeffs. Seth Jeffs is best known for his 2005 arrest for allegedly illegally aiding his sibling. He works as a computer programmer. During a routine traffic stop on October 28, 2005 in Pueblo County, Colorado, police found nearly $142,000 in cash, about $7,000 worth of prepaid debit cards and his brother's personal records.
- James Hogue
James Hogue (born October 22, 1959) is a US impostor who most famously entered Princeton University by posing as a self-taught orphan. James Arthur Hogue was born in Kansas City, Missouri and spent his youth there. He has refused to talk about much of his childhood. In 1986 Hogue enrolled in a Palo Alto High School as Jay Mitchell Huntsman, a 16-year-old orphan from Nevada. He had adopted the identity of a dead infant.
- Marvin Pentz Gay Sr.
The Reverend Marvin Pentz Gay, Sr. was an American fundamentalist minister of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and later a spin-off sect called the House of God. Born on a farm along Catnip Hill Pike in Jessamine County, Kentucky, he was the father and murderer of famous Motown performer Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr., later known as Marvin Gaye. The father and son were said not to have gotten along.
- Grady Stiles
Grady Stiles Jr. (June 26, 1937-May 29, 1992) was a freak show performer. His deformity was ectrodactyly, where the fingers and toes are fused together to form claw-like extremities. Stiles' stage name was the Lobster Boy. In 1992, Stiles was murdered in his trailer in Gibsonton, Florida by a hit man hired by family members because of his alcoholism and abuse. Stiles had previously been convicted of murdering his daughter's fiance, …
- Roy Gilchrist
Roy Gilchrist (28 June, 1934 - 18 July, 2001) was a West Indian cricketer who played 13 Tests for the West Indies in the 1950's. He was born in Saint Thomas, Jamaica and died of Parkinson's disease in St Catherine, Jamaica at the age of 67. Gilchrist's Test career might have been longer had he not been sent home halfway through West Indies' 1958-59 tour of the subcontinent after disagreements with captain Gerry Alexander.
- Peter Simone
Peter Joseph Simone was a Kansas City, Missouri mobster who was involved in running casinos. Simone worked through front man Pat O'Brien for crime boss Nicholas Civella and, following Civella's death, for his brother Carl Civella. In April 1992, Simone was convicted for money laundering in a video poker scam and was sentenced to four years imprisonment. Released on probation in 1996, in May 1997 Simone was listed in the "Black Book", …
- Quintin Gill
Quintin Gill Esq. MHK (b. November 27 1959) is currently a Member of the House of Keys since 2000 for Rushen. Prior to being a politician he was a social worker and a probation officer. He lives in Port St Mary with his wife and 3 children. Government posts: Member Department of Home Affairs 2002-04 and 2005-date, …
- Nadine Milroy-Sloan
Nadine Milroy-Sloan (b. 21 August 1973) was convicted of two counts of perverting the course of justice in 2003 for falsely accusing Neil and Christine Hamilton, and a third person, of rape. She was sentenced to three years in jail, thought to be the highest sentence yet passed for making a false allegation of rape. Fearing a civil action for libel, she declared herself bankrupt.
- Madelyn Toogood
Madelyn Toogood is an American of Irish Traveller roots who became known nationally when a videotape showing her slapping and punching her four-year old daughter, garnered national media attention in September, 2002. She plead guilty to child endangerment, and was sentenced to a one year term of probation, a fine of $500, and a suspended sentence of one year in jail.
- Ariën Pietersma
Ariën Pietersma is a Dutch footballer who currently plays for NAC Breda. Pietersma is a goalkeeper who was born in Dinteloord and made his debut in professional football, being part of the NAC Breda squad in the 2006-07 season. During that same season he reached the headlines as it was announced that Pietersma had broken into two homes with a friend and took away several gadgets.
- Chiyo Aizawa
Chiyo Aizawa(相沢チヨ, "Aizawa Chiyo") was a Japanese woman who murdered her own father. Her case is famous in Japan because it led to a change the Japanese criminal law. On October 5, 1968, she murdered her father in Yaita of Tochigi. The Japanese police, however, determined that her 3 children were her father's children. Indeed, those around her had thought she was her father's wife until the arrest.
- Al Goldstein
Alvin "Al" Goldstein (b. January 10 1936, New York City) is an American publisher and pornographer. Goldstein founded the tabloid "Screw" magazine. He was also the host and producer (with radio personality Alex Bennett) of "Midnight Blue", a New York leased-public access cable television series. His company, Milky Way Productions, home of "Screw" and his long-running cable show, "Midnight Blue", went into bankruptcy in 2004.
- Celia Johnson
Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson DBE (18 December 1908-26 April 1982) was an English actress, famous for her role in the 1945 film, "Brief Encounter", opposite Trevor Howard, for which she received her only Oscar nomination. She was born in Richmond, London and was educated at St Paul's Girls School in London. She trained in acting at RADA. Her stage début was in "Major Barbara" in 1928.
- Robert Aldous
Robert Aldous (born 1934 in Mansfield, England) is an English stage and television actor. Aldous studied at RADA and went on to perform in the West End in plays including "The School for Scandal" and "The Wind in the Willows". On television he has appeared in "'Allo 'Allo", "Softly, Softly", "Jeeves and Wooster" and "She Stoops to Conquer". More minor television roles include performances in "Dad's Army", …
- Carole Ann Ford
Carole Ann Ford (born 8 June 1940) is a British actress best known for her role as Susan Foreman in the BBC science fiction television series "Doctor Who". She also appeared in 1962 film version of "The Day of the Triffids". Ford has had a long and varied acting career. Her theatrical work includes many comedies, dramas and musicals such as "The Jungle Book", "Stranger in the House", "Bakerloo to Paradise", …