- Max Clifford
Maxwell Frank Clifford (born April 6 1943 in Kingston upon Thames), is an English publicist. Although his client range is varied, he is a controversial figure for often representing unpopular clients (such as those accused or convicted of crimes) and acting as an agent to people selling "kiss-and-tell" stories to tabloid newspapers. A traditional Labour supporter, Clifford openly vowed to bring down the government of John Major because he personally felt, … - Lizzie Grubman
Elizabeth S. "Lizzie" Grubman (born January 30, 1971) is a publicist who gained notoriety for committing a felony crime. She is the daughter of multi-millionaire entertainment lawyer, Allen Grubman, and his wife, the late Yvette Grubman. She has one sibling, a younger sister, Jennifer. In July 2001 Grubman drove her SUV into a crowd of people outside a Long Island nightclub, injuring 16 people. - Theo van Gogh
Theo van Gogh (July 23, 1957–November 2, 2004) was a Dutch film director, television producer, publicist and actor. He was a descendant of Theo van Gogh, the brother of painter Vincent van Gogh. He was murdered by islamist Mohammed Bouyeri in 2004. - Pat Kingsley
Pat Kingsley is a publicist who worked for Tom Cruise for 14 years. Through her public relations firm, PMK, she has also represented Jodie Foster, Richard Gere, Courtney Love, and Al Pacino. - Lee Anne Devette
Lee Anne DeVette is Tom Cruise's older sister who was his publicist for 20 months. Like her famous brother, she is a Scientologist. According to Scientology's published completion lists, Lee Anne DeVette has completed at least Operating Thetan level V, as well as the Scientology Ethics Specialist Course. DeVette's publicity work for Cruise was widely regarded as not entirely successful. - Jim Moran
James S. "Jim" Moran (January 1, 1908-October 18, 1999) was an imaginative publicist who was active in the 1940s and 1950s as a press agent for various clients: film studios, manufacturers and retailers. Moran made his mark when he went to Alaska on behalf of General Electric and sold a refrigerator to an Eskimo. He promoted a real-estate development by spending days looking for a needle that had been dropped into a haystack. - Ring Lardner Jr.
Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner Jr. was an American journalist and Oscar winning screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses during the era of McCarthyism. - Mark Roberts
Mark Roberts (born 3 November 1969 in Llanrwst, Wales, UK) sang and played the guitar during his teenage years in the local Welsh band, Y Cyrff. He then met Cerys Matthews and formed Catatonia along with Paul Jones. He claimed for a number of years that he had stumbled across Matthews busking in Cardiff and offered her a guitar string she was missing, which led to them playing together, … - Bubby Dacer
Salvador "Bubby" Dacer was a publicist in the Philippines. His clients included many of the top figures in Philippine politics, notably Presidents Fidel Ramos and Joseph Estrada. He was murdered on November 24 2000 by members of the police force. Bubby Dacer and his driver, Emmanuel Corbito, were abducted in Makati, the business district of Manilla. They were later killed, and their vehicle dumped. In 2001, a number of arrests were made. - Cherry Vanilla
Cherry Vanilla is an actress, author, publicist, singer-songwriter and early 1970's Glam rock star. She has worked as David Bowie’s publicist and previously also performed in Andy Warhol's stage show “Pork“. After parting ways with Bowie in the mid 70's, she moved to London (in 1976), becoming part of the emerging punk scene and releasing two solo albums. Her backing band, while performing at the Roxy, consisted of bassist Gordon "Sting" Sumner, … - Howard Bloom
Howard Bloom (born 1943) is the author of three books, "The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History"; "Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century"; and "How I Accidentally Started the Sixties". He was a publicist in the music and film industries from 1974 to 1988, working with figures like Prince, Michael Jackson, Bob Marley, Bette Midler, and John Cougar Mellencamp. - Harry Reichenbach
Harry Reichenbach (1882-1931) was a US press agent and publicist who dreamed up sensational publicity stunts to promote films. He worked both for actors, as an agent, and for the studios as a promoter. Among his first jobs was to promote a woman called "Sober Sue" who never smiled. He got her a contract at the Victoria Theater on Broadway and made them offer $1000 to any New York comedian who could make her laugh. Actually, the woman had Mobius syndrome - ie. - James Jordan
James J. Jordan, Jr. was an American publicist and sloganeer. He is best known for his work at the BBDO advertising agency, coining such slogans as "Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch!", "Wisk beats ring around the collar", and "Zest-fully clean!" A graduate of Amherst College, he would later serve on its board of trustees. He died of a heart attack while snorkeling in the Virgin Islands, aged 73. He was survived by his wife of 46 years, … - Howard Dietz
Howard Dietz (September 8, 1896 - July 30, 1983) was an American publicist, lyricist, and librettist. He was born in New York City and studied journalism at Columbia University. He also served as publicist/director of advertising for Samuel Goldwyn Productions and later MGM and is often credited with creating Leo the Lion, its lion mascot, and choosing their slogan Ars Gratia Artis. In 1942, he was made MGM's Vice President in Charge of Publicity. - Mancow Muller
Erich Matthew Muller (born June 21, 1966 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American radio and television personality known as Mancow and Mancow Muller. He is best known as the controversial radio personality from "Mancow's Morning Madhouse" formerly on WKQX-FM (Q101), a Chicago-based radio show that has, in recent years, been nationally syndicated mostly in small markets by Talk Radio Network. - Ned Buntline
Ned Buntline, was the pseudonym of Edward Zane Carroll Judson (E. Z. C. Judson), an American publisher, journalist writer and publicist best known for his dime novels and the Colt Buntline Special he commissioned from Colt's Manufacturing Company. Edward Judson was born in Stanford, Dutchess County, New York. As a boy, Ned ran away to sea. Buntline is a nautical term for a rope at the bottom of a square sail. - Bill Harry
Bill Harry was born in Liverpool, England. He attended Liverpool College of Art with John Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe. Harry was a member of The Dissenters and the founder and editor of "Mersey Beat", a weekly pop newspaper documenting the Liverpool scene. The publication is best known for being the first to feature a then-new band called The Beatles in the early 1960s. Harry has also worked as a publicist, providing public relations for such acts as Led Zeppelin, … - Franz Mehring
Franz Erdmann Mehring, was a German publicist, politician and historian. He worked for various daily and weekly newspapers and over many years wrote lead articles for the weekly magazine "Neue Zeit". In 1868 he moved to Berlin to study, and worked in the editorial office of the "Die Zukunft" newspaper. From 1871–1874, Mehring worked for the Correspondence Office in Oldenburg, writing reports on sessions of the "Reichstag" and the local parliament. - Mathew Carey
Mathew Carey (c. 1760-c. 1839) was an Irish born publicist and economist. - George Glass
George Glass (1910 - 1984) was an American film producer and publicist, best known for his work with Stanley Kramer. In Kramer's 1997 autobiography, describing how he formed his first production company in the late 1940s, he called Glass "one of the best publicity men in town," and remarked "I was fortunate to get Glass, with whom I had worked in the Lewin-Loew partnership before the war. - Dan Pearson
Dan Pearson (born 1957 in Emporium, Pennsylvania) is an American sports publicist. A 1979 graduate of West Virginia University, Pearson began his career as an assistant sports information director at Florida State from 1981-87. In addition to serving as primary assistant in football, he headed publicity efforts for the nationally ranked baseball team. From 1987-93, Pearson served in a variety of capacities for the Boardwalk and Baseball theme park in Central Florida, … - Eileen Fulton
Eileen Fulton (born Margaret Elizabeth McLarty on September 13 1933 in Asheville, North Carolina) is an American actress. Among other roles (including the Broadway productions of "The Fantasticks" and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"), she is most famous for her role as Lisa Grimaldi on the CBS soap opera "As the World Turns", a role she has played almost continually (with two notable interruptions) since May 16, 1960. - Edvard Kardelj
Edvard Kardelj - Sperans (January 27, 1910 - February 10, 1979) was a Slovene prewar communist, economist, antifascist, partisan, politician, statesman and publicist.Kardelj was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia (at that time Laibach in Austria-Hungary). He helped organize resistance in Slovenia in 1941 and accompanied Tito's Partisans in fighting Axis powers during the Second World War. - Krste Misirkov
Krste Petkov Misirkov (born: 18 November 1874 in Postol (today Pella), Greek Macedonia - died, 26 July 1926 in Sofia, Bulgaria) was a philologist and publicist, mostly known for his work "On the Macedonian Matters". His writings are central to the issue of the existence, or not, of a "Macedonian nation" distinct from the Bulgarian nation. Historians from Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia claim that he expressed self-conflicting views in different points of his life. - Johan Anthierens
Johan Anthierens (August 22, 1937, Machelen (Flemish Brabant) - March 20, 2000, Dilbeek, (Flemish Brabant), Flemish journalist, publicist, critic and writer. - Tatyana Tolstaya
Tatyana Tolstaya is a well-known modern Russian writer, TV host, publicist, novelist, and essayist. - Orestes Brownson
Orestes Augustus Brownson (1803-1876) was a New England intellectual and activist, preacher and labor organizer. Brownson is best remembered as a publicist, a career which spanned his affiliation with the New England Transcendentalists, through his subsequent conversion to Catholicism. Brownson was an adopted orphan, who was raised by impoverished Rural farmers in Stockbridge, Vermont, and educated himself. He had a series of religious conversions throughout his life. - Per Nyström
Per Nyström, Swedish historian, publicist, Social Democrat and governor of the provinces ("län") of Bohuslän and Gothenburg. - Frank Goodman
Frank Goodman (died 3 February 2006) was an American Broadway theatre publicist. Goodman began in theatre during the Great Depression, when he worked for the Federal Theater Project under the Works Projects Administration. From 1939, when he started his career, to 1961, Mr. Goodman represented more than 50 Broadway productions, including eight shows in 1960 alone. He also handled stars as varied as Jerome Robbins to Audrey Hepburn, … - Helen Ferguson
Helen Ferguson (23 July, 1900 {also said to be 190114 March, 1977) was an American actress later turned publicist. Born in Decatur, Illinois, she was a graduate of the Nicholas High School of Chicago and the Academy of Fine Arts. Ferguson was a newspaper reporter before entering the motion picture field. It is thought she made her debut in films in 1914, although her first recorded credits are in 1917. She soon starred in roles for Fox Film Corporation by 1920, … - 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. - David Burliuk
David Davidovich Burliuk (July 21, 1882 – January 15, 1967) was a Ukrainian-Russian avant-garde artist (Futurist, Neo-Primitivist), book illustrator, publicist, and author associated with Russian Futurism. - Scott Piering
Scott Piering (b. 13 September 1946, Duluth, Minnesota - d. 24 January 2000) was a successful and influential American-born music publicist for many British music acts, including Pulp, The KLF, The Smiths, Stereophonics, The Orb, Placebo, Underworld and The Prodigy. He ran the publicity consultancy, Appearing Promotions. - Norman Hudis
Norman Hudis (born 1923 in Stepney, England) is a writer for film and TV, he started his writing career on a local newspaper, the Hampstead & Highgate Express. When World War II broke out he joined the RAF and served in the Middle East writing for Air Force News. Like a lot of other post-war writers his first foray into entertainment was writing for camp concerts. After the war Hudis decided to become a playwright, … - Nicole Blackman
Nicole Blackman is a New York City-born performance artist, poet, author, vocalist, teacher, and former music industry publicist. She is also a top voiceover artist for television and radio - Lothar Bucher
Lothar Bucher (1817-1892) was a German publicist and trusted aide of German chancellor Otto von Bismarck. He was born on the 25th of October 1817 at Neu Stettin, in Pomerania, his father being master at a gymnasium. After studying at the University of Berlin he adopted the legal profession. Elected a member of the National Assembly in Berlin in 1848, he was an active leader of the extreme democratic party. - Franček Rudolf
Franček Rudolf (Franèek Rudolf is a Slovenian poet, author, screenwriter, playwright, film director, critic and publicist. Rudolf was born in Lipovci, Slovenia during WWII. He grew up in Yugoslavia under Tito, completing high school in Maribor and graduating from the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) at the University of Ljubljana. He started out as an actor in 1969, but soon became involved with screenwriting. - David McDuff
David McDuff, a Scottish publicist, was born in Sale, Cheshire, England in 1945. He attended the University of Edinburgh, where he studied German and Russian. After living for some time in the Soviet Union, Denmark, Iceland, and the United States, he eventually settled in the United Kingdom, where he worked for several years as a co-editor of the literary magazine "Stand". He then moved to London, where he began his career as a literary translator. - Max Bill
Swiss artist, architect, designer, typographer, and theorist Max Bill (1908-94) was one of the most important exponents of concrete and constructive art and a key figure in European applied arts and design history. Educated by such prominent teachers as Paul Klee , Wassily Kandisky, and Walter Gropius at the Bauhaus, at the start of his career in the 1930s. - Bruce Fairchild Barton
Bruce Fairchild Barton was an American author, advertising executive, and politician. Born in Tennessee, he graduated from Amherst College in 1907. He worked as a publicist and magazine editor before co-founding the Barton, Durstine & Osborn (BDO) advertising agency in 1919. Nine years later the agency merged with the George Batten agency to become Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn (BBDO). Barton headed the agency until 1961, building it into one of the industry's leaders.
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