- Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton is a junior Democratic Senator from New York. Married to former President Bill Clinton , she was First Lady from 1993 to 2001. She is currently seeking the Democratic nomination for President in 2008 and is considered the front-runner. Mike Huckabee - Hugh Ellsworth Rodham
Hugh Ellsworth Rodham was Hillary Rodham Clinton’s father. He was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania to Hannah Jones and Hugh Rodham, Sr., English immigrants descended from a line of Welsh coal miners in Pennsylvania and worked in the Scranton coal mine industry. He attended Pennsylvania State University on a football scholarship, playing for the Penn State Nittany Lions football team and joining the Delta Upsilon Fraternity. - Andrey Golub
BSc- Applied Mathematics/ Software Engineering, PhD- Systems Analysis and Design. Who's Who in the World- 2008 (Marquis), . Prof: IT/TLC/Web Project- Product Manager, Sr.Systems/ Business Analyst and Team Leader. Web: Web 2.0 Evangelist and Researcher (Marketing 2.0/ PR 2.0/ Community Manager) with some broad experience in leading Open-Community (and Open-Source) projects.Co-founder, VP and IT/Web Manager of Business Club 2.0 Milan-IN (official LinkedIn Italia supporter Club). - Tony Rodham
Anthony Dean Rodham (born 1954) is the youngest brother of Senator and former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. Rodham is the son of Hugh Ellsworth Rodham, a Chicago textile wholesaler, and Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham. He has one other sibling, older brother Hugh Edwin Rodham. He attended Iowa Wesleyan College and the University of Arkansas, although he never received a degree from either school. He then worked at various jobs in Texas, Chicago and South Florida, … - Rosie O'Donnell
Roseann Theresa "Rosie" O'Donnell (born March 21, 1962 in Bayside, Queens, New York) is an 11-time Emmy Award-winning American talk show host, television personality, comedienne, celebrity blogger, film, television, and stage actress. - Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham
Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham is the mother of Hillary Rodham Clinton. Dorothy Emma Howell was born in 1919 in Chicago, Illinois to Edwin John Howell, Jr., a Chicago firefighter, and Della Murray. Her sister Isabelle was born in 1924. The parents paid only sporadic attention to the children, then divorced in 1927. The children were then sent to live with their paternal grandparents in the Los Angeles suburb of Alhambra, California. - Vint Cerf
Vinton Gray Cerf (born June 23, 1943) (last name pronounced just like the English word "surf") is an American computer scientist who is commonly referred to as one of the "founding fathers of the Internet" for his key technical and managerial role, together with Bob Kahn, in the creation of the Internet and the TCP/IP protocols which it uses. He was also a co-founder (in 1992) of the Internet Society (ISOC), … - Ursula Burns
Ursula M. Burns (New York, New York, September 20, 1958 -) currently serves as president of Xerox Corporation, named to the position in March 2007. She previously served as president of the company's Business Group Operations and as a corporate senior vice president Burns joined Xerox in 1980 as a mechanical engineering summer intern. She subsequently held several positions in engineering, including product development and planning. - Victor H. Fazio
Victor H. Fazio was named senior advisor at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in May 2005 after serving as senior partner at Clark & Weinstock since 1999. Prior to that, he served as a Member of Congress for 20 years representing California's third congressional district. During that time, he served as a member of the Armed Services, Budget and Ethics Committees and was a member of the House Appropriations Committee where he served as Subcommittee Chair or ranking member for 18 years. - Reese Witherspoon
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon (born March 22, 1976), known simply as Reese Witherspoon, is an Academy Award-winning American actress. Witherspoon is frequently cited by media to be one of the most beautiful leading ladies in today's cinema and her off screen life is widely reported. Her first role was in the made for television movie "Wildflower" (1991), … - Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. Since the 1960s Fonda has appeared in several movies. She has won two Academy Awards and received several other awards and nominations. She initially announced her retirement from acting in 1991, and said for many years that she would never act again, but she returned to film in 2005 with "Monster in Law", … - George Soros
George Soros (born August 12, 1930, in Budapest, Hungary, as György Schwartz) is an American financial speculator, stock investor, philanthropist, and political activist. He peacefully promotes democracy in Eastern Europe. Currently, he is the chairman of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Institute and is also a former member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations. His support for the Solidarity labor movement in Poland, … - Robert Iger
Robert A. "Bob" Iger (born February 10 1951) is head of the Walt Disney Company. He has been president since January 2000 and CEO since October 2005. - Alejandro Zaffaroni
Alejandro Zaffaroni is the founder of a number of companies, including ALZA, Affymax, Affymetrix, Alexza, DNAX, Maxygen and Symyx. He is widely considered a pioneer in drug delivery and the field of biotechnology and has had a significant impact on the development of Silicon Valley through the many companies built by him and those he mentored. - Alan Dershowitz
Alan Morton Dershowitz (born September 1, 1938) is an American political figure and criminal law professor at Harvard Law School known for his extensive published works, career as an attorney in several high-profile law cases, and commentary on the Arab-Israeli conflict. He has spent most of his career at Harvard Law School, where, at the age of 28, he became the youngest full professor in the history of Harvard, … - Carl Icahn
Carl Celian Icahn (born February 16, 1936) is an American billionaire financier, corporate raider, and private equity investor. - Jennifer Tilly
Jennifer Tilly (born September 16, 1958) is an Academy Award-nominated American actress and a World Series of Poker bracelet winner. - Hugh Hefner
Hugh Marston Hefner (born April 9, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois), also referred to colloquially as Hef, is the founder and editor-in-chief of "Playboy" magazine. He has become an icon of American sexuality and a spokesman for the sexual revolution and libertarianism - Brook Byers
Brook Byers is the brother of Stanford University Professor Tom Byers, and is a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers. He is currently on the Board of Directors of eight companies, most recently joining CardioDX, Genomic Health Incorporated, Five Prime Therapeutics, Pacific Biosciences, Inc. and XDx, Inc. Previously, he served on the Board of Directors of Idec Pharmaceuticals (Chairman), Athena Neurosciences (Chairman), Signal Pharmaceuticals, … - Craig Venter
J. Craig Venter (born John Craig Venter October 14, 1946, Salt Lake City) is an American biologist and businessman. - Sanford I. Weill
Sanford I. Weill, commonly known as Sandy Weill (born March 16 1933) is a banker, financier and philanthropist. He was formerly the chief executive officer and chairman of Citigroup Inc. He served in those positions until October 1 2003 and April 18, 2006 respectively. - Dick Ebersol
Duncan "Dick" Ebersol is an American radio and TV manager. He was protégé of ABC Sports czar Roone Arledge and was a key NBC executive in the launching of "Saturday Night Live" in 1975 and which he produced from April 1981 to May 1985. He became president of NBC Sports in April 1989. In May 2004, Dick Ebersol was named chairman of NBC Universal Sports & Olympics. - Jerry Springer
Gerald Norman "Jerry" Springer (born February 13, 1944) is a British-born American celebrity, a former Democratic mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, musician, television personality, and host of the controversial television tabloid talk show bearing his name, "The Jerry Springer Show". He is also the current host of "America's Got Talent". - Reed Hastings
Reed Hastings (Wilmot Reed Hastings, Jr.) is the founder of Netflix. He is currently Netflix's chief executive officer, president and chairman of the board, and was the founder of Pure Software. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Microsoft Corp. His father was a lawyer who once served in the Nixon administration, serving as general counsel in the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. - Charles Prince
Charles O. "Chuck" Prince, III, born January_13, 1950, is the chief executive officer of Citigroup. Before taking over Citi's investment banking business, Prince had been Chief Operating Officer for Citigroup. He started his career as an attorney with U.S. Steel Corp in 1975. In 1979, he joined Commercial Credit Co., a predecessor to Citigroup that Sandy Weill took over in 1986. From there, as Weill put together his financial empire, Prince was with him every step. - Candice Bergen
Candice Patricia Bergen (born May 9, 1946) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning American actress and former fashion model, primarily for her roles in sitcoms and television. She is currently best known for her starring role on the television situation comedy "Murphy Brown", and as William Shatner's legal partner, Shirley Schmidt, on the ABC hit dramedy, "Boston Legal". - Vera Wang
Vera Wang (born June 27, 1949) is an American fashion designer based in New York, NY, USA. She is known for her wedding gown collection, among other specialties. She was raised in an affluent family and attended The Chapin School as well as the Sorbonne in Paris. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a degree in art history. Her mother often took her to fashion shows in Paris. Her father started and owned a chemical company. - Silda Wall Spitzer
Silda Wall Spitzer is the current First Lady of New York State and the founder and chair of the board of Children for Children, a non-profit organization that fosters community involvement and social responsibility in young people. She is the wife of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. - Douglas D. Osheroff
Douglas Dean Osheroff (born August 1, 1945) is an American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996 with David Lee and Robert C. Richardson for discovering the superfluidic nature of <sup>3<;/sup>He. This discovery was made in 1971, while Osheroff was a graduate student at Cornell. Osheroff, born in Aberdeen, Washington, earned his Bachelor's degree in 1967 from Caltech, where he was a student of Richard Feynman. - Anne M. Mulcahy
Anne M. Mulcahy is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Xerox Corporation, Stamford, Conn. She was named CEO of Xerox on Aug. 1, 2001, and chairman on Jan. 1, 2002. In addition to the Xerox board, she is a member of the boards of directors of Catalyst, Citigroup Inc., Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd. and Target Corporation, and is a member of The Business Council. - George Takei
George Hosato Takei (born April 20, 1937) is an American actor known for his role in the TV series "Star Trek", in which he played the helmsman Hikaru Sulu on the USS "Enterprise". Takei is also known for his baritone voice and deep-throated catch phrase, "Oh my!" Consequently, Takei began recurring appearances as the announcer for "The Howard Stern Show" on January 9, 2006, after that show's move to satellite radio. - Carly Simon
Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1945 in New York City) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe and two-time Grammy Award winning American musician who emerged as one of the leading lights of the early 1970s singer-songwriter movement. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1994. - Sheryl Sandberg
Sheryl Sandberg is the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook Inc. Before that she served as Vice President of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google. She is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School. Sandberg previously served as chief of staff to Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers from 1999 to 2001. She joined Google after the administration of George W. Bush came into office and both Summers and his team left the Treasury. - Deborah Tannen
Deborah Frances Tannen (born June 7, 1945) is an American professor of sociolinguistics at Georgetown University. Although she has lectured worldwide in her field, and written or edited numerous academic publications on linguistics and interpersonal communication, she is best known for her general-audience books on interpersonal communication and public discourse. - Edgar Bronfman Jr.
Edgar Miles Bronfman, Jr. (born May 16, 1955), formerly CEO of Seagram and vice-chairman of Vivendi Universal, has been CEO of Warner Music since 2004. He is the son of Edgar Miles Bronfman and the grandson of Samuel Bronfman, one of the most wealthy and influential Jewish families in Canada. The Bronfman family gained its fortunes through the Seagram Company, an alcohol distilling company, but Edgar Jr. - Russell Simmons
Russell Simmons (born October 4 ,1957 in Queens, New York), is an African American entrepreneur, the co-founder, with Rick Rubin, of the pioneering hip-hop label Def Jam, founder of another label, Russell Simmons Music Group, and creator of the clothing fashion line Phat Farm. Russell Simmons is the younger brother of Daniel "Danny" Simmons, Jr and he is the older brother of Rev. Joseph Simmons, better known as "Run" of Run-DMC, and son of Daniel Simmons, Sr, … - Kenneth Chenault
Kenneth Irvine Chenault (born Long Island, June 2, 1951) has been the CEO and Chairman of American Express since 2001. He was the third African-American CEO of a Fortune 500 company. He received a B.A. in History from Bowdoin College in 1973, and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1976. After Harvard he worked as an associate with the law firm Rogers & Wells in New York City, and as a consultant for Bain & Company. - Bernard L. Schwartz
Bernard Leon Schwartz (born December 12,1926, Brooklyn, New York) was the Chairman of the Board and CEO of Loral Space & Communications, Chairman and CEO of K&F Industries, Inc., Chairman and CEO of Loral Corp., and president and CEO of Globalstar. During his time at Loral, he was instrumental in helping the Chinese military to acquire weapons techonology. He retired from Loral and his positions at its various subsidiaries and affiliates as of March 1, 2006. - Suhas Patil
Dr. Suhas S. Patil, born 1944 in Jamshedpur,Jharkhand, India, is a Silicon Valley tycoon, venture capitalist and philanthropist. He founded the company Cirrus Logic which is recognized for creating the fabless business model of semiconductor companies. Cirrus Logic brought to fruition VLSI design methodology work Dr. Patil did at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the University of Utah. - Leonard Blavatnik
Len Blavatnik (born 1957) is an American industrialist, born in Russia, and currently living in New York and London. He emigrated with his family from Russia to the U.S. in 1978, and received a masters in computer science from Columbia University and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School in 1989. In the West, he is known as Len Blavatnik. In 1986 he founded Access Industries, a New York-based international industrial group, …
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