Ammi Phillips

Ammi Phillips

male, deceased (1865)
Ammi Phillips, a self-taught New England portrait painter, is regarded as one of the most important folk artists of his era. Phillips was born in...
Oliver Heaviside

Oliver Heaviside

male, deceased (1925)
Oliver Heaviside (May 18, 1850 - February 3, 1925) was a self-taught English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex...
Jeri Ellsworth

Jeri Ellsworth

female, 35 years old
Jeri Ellsworth (born 1974) is an American entrepreneur and self-taught computer chip designer. She is best known for, in 2004, creating a Commodore...
Steven Wilson

Steven Wilson

male, 42 years old
Steven Wilson (born Steven John Wilson on November 3, 1967 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England) is the lead guitarist/singer/songwriter and...
Bill Granger

Bill Granger

male
Bill Granger is a self-taught Cook, restaurateur and food writer, not only in his native Australia, but also internationally.
James Hogue

James Hogue

male, 50 years old
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...
Kevin Adams

Kevin Adams

male
KEVIN ADAMS (b. 1962 in Pampa, Texas) is an American theatrical lighting designer, scenic designer and visual artist. In 2007 he received a Tony...
Ed O'Brien

Ed O'Brien

male, 41 years old
Edward "Ed" John O'Brien (born April 15, 1968, in Oxford, England) is a member of Radiohead. He plays guitar and sings harmony vocals live and on...

Michael Hunt

male
Michael Hunt (born May 10, 1970) is an American artist conceived at the Woodstock Festival in Bethel, New York and born in Honesdale, Pennsylvania....
Alphons Diepenbrock

Alphons Diepenbrock

male, deceased (1921)
Alphonsus Johannes Maria Diepenbrock was a Dutch composer, essayist and classicist. He studied classics at the University of Amsterdam, gaining his...