- Fulbright Program
The Fulbright Program aka Fulbright-Hays Program is a program of educational grants (Fulbright Fellowships and Fulbright Scholarships), founded by United States Senator J. William Fulbright, and sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State, governments in other countries, and the private sector. - Denise Austin
Denise Austin (born February 13, 1957) is an American fitness and exercise expert, author, columnist and instructor. She is also a member of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. She is married to sports attorney Jeff Austin, with whom she has two daughters: Kelly (born 1990) and Katie (born 1993). Her sister-in-law is U.S. tennis champion Tracy Austin. Austin was born Denise Katnich in San Pedro, CA. She started gymnastics at the age of 12, … - W. E. B. du Bois
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (pronounced) (February 23, 1868 - August 27, 1963) was an American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. He became a naturalized citizen of Ghana in 1963 at the age of 95. David Levering Lewis, a biographer, wrote, "In the course of his long, turbulent career, … - John Owen
John Owen was the Professor of Welsh at the St David's College, as well as the dean of St Asaph. He became the Bishop of St David's in 1897. Born at Ysgubor Wen, Caernarvonshire, his father Griffith Owen was a Welsh Calvinistic Methodist. Though he never deviated from his own loyalties, he watched his son’s career as an Anglican with great pride. Owen’s mother, Ann Jones from Aberdaron, could not easily reconcile herself to her son joining the Anglican church, however, … - Mike Anderson
Mike Anderson is an American college basketball coach, who was appointed as the head men's coach at the University of Missouri on March 26, 2006. As of the end of the 2005-2006 season, Anderson had finished his fourth year as the head coach at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. At UAB, Anderson coached the Blazers three appearances in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament over four years, and one appearance in the National Invitation Tournament. - Jerry Jones
Jerrel Wayne "Jerry" Jones (Born on October 13, 1942 in Los Angeles, California) is the owner of the Dallas Cowboys NFL franchise and the Dallas Desperados AFL franchise. Jones was born in Los Angeles, California. Shortly thereafter, his family moved to North Little Rock, Arkansas. He was a star running back at North Little Rock High School and eventually received a scholarship to play guard at the University of Arkansas. - Eric Williams
Dr. Eric Eustace Williams (September 25, 1911 - March 29, 1981) was the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. He served from 1956 until his death in 1981. He was also a noted Caribbean historian. Williams was born the son of minor civil servant, but his mother was a descendant of the French Creole elite. He was educated at Queen's Royal College in Port of Spain, where he excelled at academics and football. - Jacques Barzun
Jacques Martin Barzun is a leading American historian of ideas and culture. His reputation, such as it is, is that of a political and social conservative and an eloquent defender of tradition in the practice of higher education and scholarship. But a closer consideration of his works will reveal the unsoundness of any such labels to describe his attitudes or thought. As his friend, Lionel Trilling, said, "It's much more complicated." - Kyle Petty
Kyle Eugene Petty (Born June 2, 1960 in Randleman, North Carolina) is an American NASCAR driver, the son and grandson of racing legends Richard Petty and Lee Petty, respectively. He drives the #45 Marathon Petroleum Company Dodge Charger for Petty Enterprises. The Marathon Petroleum Company announced the sponsorship on August 8, 2006. Marathon will remain the Sponsor through the 2008 season. Petty originally did not intend to become a race car driver. - David Newman
David "Fathead" Newman b. February 24, 1933 in Corsicana, Texas, is an American saxophonist. His professional career began in 1954 as an original member of Ray Charles' Band. Newman has had a prolific recording and performing career. Newman got his nickname in high school music class. Mr. Miller, his then music teacher, saw his music upside down on the stand, and knowing that Newman couldn't read music very well at the time, … - William Roberts
William Roberts (5 June, 1895 - 20 January, 1980) was an English painter and war artist. - Wilma Rudolph
Wilma Glodean Rudolph (June 23 1940 - November 12 1994) was an American athlete, and in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy, she became the first American woman to win three gold medals in track and field during a single Olympic Games, despite running on a sprained ankle. The powerful sprinter emerged from the 1960 Rome Olympics as "The Tennessee Tornado," the fastest woman on earth. - David Lindsay
David Lindsay (1876-1945) was a Scottish author now most famous for the philosophical novel "A Voyage to Arcturus" (1920). Lindsay was born into a middle-class Scottish Calvinist family who had moved to London, although growing up he spent much time in Jedburgh, where his family originally came from. Although he won a scholarship to university, he was forced by poverty to go into business and he became an insurance clerk at Lloyd's of London. - George Gissing
George Gissing (November 22, 1857 - December 28, 1903) was an English novelist, who wrote twenty-three novels between 1880 and 1903. Although his early works are naturalistic, he developed into one of the the most accomplished realists of the late-Victorian era. Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, to lower-middle class parents, Gissing went on to win a scholarship to Owens College, the present day University of Manchester. - Michael Woods
Michael Woods (born 6 April 1990 in York) is an English professional football player from Pocklington who plays as a midfielder for Chelsea. Woods turned down a scholarship from Leeds United to sign for Chelsea. Leeds United chairman Ken Bates accused Chelsea of tapping-up Woods, the two clubs later agreed an out of court settlement for the player. Woods has been capped for the English national under-17 team. - Lea Thompson
Lea Katherine Thompson (born May 31, 1961, in Rochester, Minnesota) is an American actress - Chita Rivera
Chita Rivera (born January 23 1933) is a Tony Award-winning American actress, dancer, and singer known for her musical theater roles. She was born Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero in Washington, D.C. to a Puerto Rican father who played clarinet and saxophone for the Navy band and a mother of mostly Scottish and Italian descent, who went to work for The Pentagon when she was widowed when Chita was seven-years-old (she died in 1983). - Vern Poythress
Vern Sheridan Poythress (born 1946) is a Calvinist philosopher and theologian and New Testament scholar. - Chick Evans
Charles "Chick" Evans, Jr. (July 18, 1890 - November 6, 1979) was a leading amateur golfer of the 1910s and 1920s considered second only to Bobby Jones in his era. Evans was the first amateur to win the U.S. Open and U.S. Amateur in one year, a feat he achieved in 1916. Evans went on to win the U.S. Amateur in 1920, while finishing runner-up three times. Selected to the Walker Cup team in 1922, 1924, and 1928, … - Tom Carter
Thomas Carter, III (born September 5, 1972) in St. Petersburg, Florida) is a former American football cornerback who played in the NFL from 1993-2001. He played for the Washington Redskins, Chicago Bears, and Cincinnati Bengals. Carter attended Lakewood High School in St. Petersburg, Florida and accepted a scholarship to play college football at the University of Notre Dame. - Jack Zipes
Jack David Zipes is a Professor of German at the University of Minnesota whose publications and lectures on fairy tales have transformed research on fairy tales and their linguistic roots and socialization function. According to Zipes, fairy tales "serve a meaningful social function, … - Mike Peterson
Porter Michael "Mike" Peterson (born June 17, 1976 in Gainesville, Florida) is an American football linebacker for the Jacksonville Jaguars of the National Football League. He played collegiately at Florida. Peterson is the older brother of Chicago Bears running back Adrian Peterson. - Barry Cooper
Barry Cooper (born 1949) is an English composer, organist and author, one of the most renowned Beethoven scholars, and is editor of the "Beethoven Compendium". Born in Westcliff-on-Sea in Essex, Cooper studied piano and composition in his childhood, leading to scholarships to the Gordonstoun School and later at University College, Oxford, studying organ with John Webster and earning an MA in 1973 and a DPhil in 1974. - Max Turner
Max Turner is a British New Testament scholar. He is evangelical, and a Baptist minister, although as a young Christian he was associated with the Elim Pentecostal Church. His charismatic roots have generated an interest in the theology of the Holy Spirit, especially in Luke-Acts. - Ron Kind
Ronald James Kind (born March 16 1963) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Wisconsin. He has served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives since 1997, representing. Kind is a native of La Crosse, Wisconsin. He was first elected in the 3rd Congressional District of Wisconsin (map) in November 1996. He currently serves on the powerful House Committee on Ways and Means. His other (non-committee) titles are the Democratic Chief Deputy Whip, … - Mark Murray
Mark Murray is president of Meijer and was the third president of Grand Valley State University, serving from 2001 to 2006. He received his master's degree in Labor and Industrial Relations and his bachelor's degree in Economics from Michigan State University. Prior to his tenure at Grand Valley, he served in Michigan state government. His positions were: treasurer, budget director, director of the Department of Management and Budget, … - Tamir Goodman
Tamir Goodman (born January 18, 1982), dubbed by Sports Illustrated Magazine as the "Jewish Jordan," is an Orthodox Jewish basketball player. Goodman first garnered national attention as a junior in high school, averaging 35.4 points per game for the Talmudical Academy of Baltimore. He earned recognition in Sports Illustrated and was interviewed by ESPN, 60 Minutes, and Fox Sports. In 11th grade, he was ranked the 25th-best high school player in the country. - Jason David
Jason Aeron Walter David (born June 12, 1982 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) is a cornerback for the New Orleans Saints. David grew up in Covina, California, before attending Washington State University on a football scholarship and majoring in communications. He was a fourth round draft pick by the Indianapolis Colts in 2004. David stands 5 foot 8 inches tall and weighs 172 pounds. In 2004, he had 52 total tackles, 4 interceptions, and one forced fumble. - Duy-Loan Le
Duy-Loan Le (born 1962, Vietnam) was the first woman and the first Asian to get elected to the rank of Texas Instruments Senior Fellow. - Scott Wells
Scott Mark Wells, (born 14 September 1988 in Walsgrave, Coventry) is a professional footballer currently playing for Rugby United after an early career with Derby County. Initially, Wells was a member of the Coventry City Academy team - after being spotted playing for local team Athletic United, but after only three years with City, he switched to Derby in 2001. Awarded a scholarship with the club in 2004, … - Carlos Ponce
Carlos Augusto Ponce, also known as "Carlos Ponce" (September 4, 1972) born in the Santurce district of San Juan, Ponce is an actor, singer, composer and TV personality. He currently stars in the Telemundo serial "Dame Chocolate" ("Give Me Chocolate"). - Gabrielle Reece
Gabrielle Reece (born January 6, 1970) is an American professional volleyball player, sports presenter and former fashion model. Reece stands at 6 ft 3 inch (190.5 cm). Her measurments are 36-24-35, according to "Celebrity Sleuth" magazine and according to her book "Big Girl in the Middle" wears a size 11 shoes. Her stature is genetic - her mother is 6 ft 2 inches. In 1989 she was named by Elle magazine as one of the five most beautiful Women in the world. - Rocky Delgadillo
So if developers are being allowed to demolish buildings before they get onto Historic Preservation lists, there must be payola there for Rocky. Either the fool's ego is so big he still thinks he has a chance to run for higher office, or he's trying to cash out by taking advantage of his current job before running away in disgrace with his ill-gotten loot. If people really want to look to corruption with developers, look to Rocky. - David Lindsay-Abaire
David Lindsay-Abaire is a Pulitzer Prize winning American playwright, best known for "Fuddy Meers" and for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Drama "Rabbit Hole". He grew up in Boston, Massachusetts in a family of five he describes as "very blue collar." His mother was a factory worker and his father worked for the Chelsea fruit market. He attended Boston public schools until the seventh grade, when he received a six-year scholarship to the Milton Academy, … - R. Laird Harris
Robert Laird Harris (born March 10, 1911) is an Presbyterian minister, church leader, and Old Testament scholar. - Jack Bennett
Jack Bennett is a British actor. He trained on scholarship at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, graduating in 2001. He has mainly worked in theatre, including productions for The Royal National Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre and the Merlin Budapest International Theatre. His work on film includes "Make It Big" (Sky), "The Calligrapher" (LFA) and the 2006 FA Cup Idents (Red Bee/BBC). - David McAllister
David James McAllister is a German politician (CDU). He is leader of the parliamentary group in the regional parliament (German "Landtag") of Lower Saxony. McAllister was born as son of a German mother an a Scottish father. Since August 2003 he has been married with his wife Dunja. The couple has two daughters. In 1989 McAllister finished school. - Shirley Geok-Lin Lim
Shirley Geok-lin Lim (born 1944) is an award-winning Malaysian-born American writer of poetry, fiction, and criticism, and one of Hong Kong's most-published authors. Her first collection of poems, "Crossing The Peninsula", published in 1980, won her the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, a first both for an Asian and for a woman. Among several other awards that she has received, her memoir, "Among the White Moon Faces", received the 1997 American Book Award. - Anne Moody
Anne Moody (born September 15 1940) is an African American author who has written about her experiences growing up poor and black in rural Mississippi, and then joining the Civil Rights Movement, which fought racism against blacks in the United States beginning in the 1950s. Born Essie Mae Moody, she was the eldest of nine children of Fred and Elmira Moody. After her parents split up, she grew up with her mother in Centreville, Mississippi, … - Haun Saussy
Caleb Powell Haun Saussy (b. 1960) is the Bird White Housum Professor of Comparative and Chinese literature at Yale University. Saussy's first book, The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic (Stanford UP, 1993), discussed the tradition of commentary that has grown up around the early Chinese poetry collection Shi jing (known in English as the Book of Songs). His most recent book is Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China (Harvard University Asia Center, …
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