- Heath Ledger
Heathcliff Andrew Ledger (April 4, 1979 – January 22, 2008) was an Academy Award-nominated Australian actor. After appearing in television roles during the 1990s, Ledger developed a Hollywood career. He starred in both critical and financial successes, including The Patriot, Monster's Ball and Brokeback Mountain, and completed the role of The Joker in the forthcoming The Dark Knight. Ledger was found dead in a New York City apartment on January 22, 2008. - Elisha Cuthbert
Elisha Ann Cuthbert (born November 30 1982) is a Canadian actress. She is known as the former co-host of the Canadian children's television series, "Popular Mechanics for Kids", and for her role as Kim Bauer in the American action-thriller television series "24". She had her first lead role in the 2004 feature film "The Girl Next Door". - H. L. Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956), better known as H. L. Mencken, was a twentieth-century journalist, satirist, social critic, cynic, and freethinker, known as the "Sage of Baltimore." He is often regarded as one of the most influential American writers of the early 20th century. - Scott Peterson
Scott Lee Peterson (born 24 October, 1972) is a former fertilizer salesman convicted of the murder of his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson, and unborn son Conner Peterson. Laci was eight months pregnant at the time of the murder. Peterson's case dominated the American media for many months. On March 16, 2005, Peterson was sentenced to death and currently resides on death row in San Quentin State Prison. Scott Peterson has not admitted any guilt. - Jordan Farmar
Jordan Robert Farmar (born November 30, 1986) is an American professional basketball player and starting point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers. He was previously the starting point guard for the UCLA men's basketball team. - Rupert Grint
Rupert Alexander Grint (born August 24, 1988) is an English actor best known for playing Ron Weasley in the "Harry Potter" films. - Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton (January 24 1862 - August 11 1937) was an American novelist, short story writer, and designer. - Vincent D'Onofrio
Vincent Phillip D'Onofrio (born June 30, 1959) is an American actor and producer. He is perhaps best known for his role as Pvt. Leonard 'Gomer Pyle' Lawrence in "Full Metal Jacket". - Wernher von Braun
Dr. Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (March 23 1912 - June 16 1977) was one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Germany and the United States. The German scientist, who led Germany's rocket development program (V-2) before and during World War II, entered the United States at the end of the war through the then-secret Operation Paperclip. - Anton Lavey
Anton Szandor LaVey, born Howard Stanton Levey (11 April, 1930 - 29 October, 1997) was the founder and High Priest of the Church of Satan as well as a writer, occultist, musician, and actor. He is the author of "The Satanic Bible" and the founder of LaVeyan Satanism, a synthesized system of his understanding of human nature and the insights of philosophers who advocated materialism and individualism, … - Sid Caesar
Sid Caesar (born September 8, 1922) is an Emmy-winning American comic actor and writer, best known as the leading man on the 1950s television series "Your Show of Shows", and to younger generations as Coach Calhoun in "Grease" and "Grease 2". - Drew Gooden
Andrew Melvin "Drew" Gooden (born September 24 1981 in Oakland, California) is an American professional basketball player currently with the Cleveland Cavaliers of the NBA. A 6'10", 250 lbs. power forward from the University of Kansas, Gooden was selected as the 4th overall pick by the Memphis Grizzlies in the 2002 NBA Draft. - Andrew Bogut
Andrew Michael Bogut (born November 28, 1984) is an Australian professional basketball player. He currently plays for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association. Bogut was selected first overall by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2005 NBA Draft. The 7'0", 245 lb (2.13 m, 111 kg) forward/center was a star at the University of Utah for two years before declaring for the draft. Bogut is the first Australian to be drafted first overall. - Desagana Diop
DeSagana N'gagne Diop (pronounced Suh-GAH-nah JOP) (born January 30 1982 in Dakar) is a Senegalese professional basketball player currently playing for the NBA's Dallas Mavericks. Standing seven-feet tall (213 cm) and weighing 280 lbs. (127 kg), Diop's natural position is center. - Drew Neitzel
Drew Neitzel (born May 7, 1985) is an American collegiate men's basketball player in the NCAA. He is a junior at Michigan State University and wears the number 11. Neitzel's primary position is guard. He is listed at 6-0, 180 lbs. - Emitt Rhodes
Emitt Rhodes, an American singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, was born February 25, 1950 in Hawthorne, California. Considered by many as "the one man Beatles," Emitt Rhodes' recordings show a clear Paul McCartney influence in both vocals and musicanship. Emitt Rhodes began his career in musical ensembles The Palace Guard (as the group's drummer) and The Merry-Go-Round (multi-instrumentalist), leaving the drums to the expertise of Joel Larson. - Joffrey Lupul
Joffrey Douglas Lupul (born September 23, 1983, in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada) is a professional ice hockey player who currently plays for the Philadelphia Flyers. - Sherman Hemsley
Sherman Hemsley (born February 1, 1938 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an Emmy Award nominated and Image Award winning African American character actor most famous for his roles as George Jefferson, on the television shows "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons" and as Deacon Ernest Frye on "Amen". He also played Earl Sinclair's horrifying boss, a Triceratops named B.P. Richfield on the Jim Henson sitcom, "Dinosaurs". - Mary Leakey
Mary Leakey (February 6 1913 - December 9 1996) was a British archaeologist, who, along with others, discovered the first skull of a fossil ape on Rusinga Island and also a noted robust Australopithecine called Zinjanthropus at Olduvai. For much of her career she worked with her husband Louis Leakey in Olduvai Gorge, uncovering the tools and fossils of ancient hominines. She developed a system for classifying the stone tools found at Olduvai. - Liza Snyder
My television credits include regular roles in "Jesse" and "Sirens," as well as guest-starring roles in "Chicago Hope" and "Murder, She Wrote," both on CBS, and "Down the Shore." I made my feature-film debut in "Pay It Forward." My father was a professor of theater at Smith College and my mother is a singer-songwriter. My maternal grandparents were five-time Oscar-winning composer Johnny Green and actress and consumer reporter Betty Furness. - Carrie Underwood
Carrie Marie Underwood (born March 10, 1983) is an American pop country music singer who won the fourth season of "American Idol". She has since become a multi-platinum selling recording artist. Her debut album, "Some Hearts", was certified 6x platinum, and is the fastest selling debut country album in Nielsen SoundScan history. - Jacoby Ellsbury
Jacoby McCabe Ellsbury (born September 11, 1983, in Madras, Oregon) is a minor league baseball player who is currently the # 1 prospect in the Boston Red Sox organization and rated as the # 33 prospect for 2007 by Baseball America. He was originally drafted, but not signed, by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the 23rd round of the 2002 MLB entry draft and in 2005 was drafted by Boston, 23rd overall, in the entry draft out of Oregon State University. - Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins (born March 26, 1941) is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and popular science writer who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. Dawkins first came to prominence with his 1976 book "The Selfish Gene", which popularised the gene-centered view of evolution and introduced the term meme into the lexicon, helping found memetics. - Ozzy Osbourne
Ozzy Osbourne (born John Michael Osbourne, December 3 1948 in Aston, Birmingham, England) is the lead vocalist of the pioneering heavy metal band Black Sabbath, a popular solo artist, and the star of the reality show, "The Osbournes". As a solo artist, Osbourne has sold over 30 million albums in the US, and 75 million albums worldwide. Two albums, "Blizzard of Ozz" (1980) and "No More Tears" (1991), are certified quadruple platinum, … - Cecil O. Samuelson
Cecil Osborn Samuelson, Jr. (b. August 1, 1941) has been the 12th president of Brigham Young University since May 1, 2003. Prior to this appointment he had been a professor of medicine at the University of Utah, dean of the school of medicine there, and vice president of health services. Samuelson's full-time service to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints began in 1994 when he was made a General Authority and appointed to the First Quorum of the Seventy. - Laura Schlessinger
Laura Catherine Schlessinger (born January 16, 1947) is an American cultural and conservative commentator, most known as host of the popular "Dr. Laura" radio advice call-in show. The show is nationally syndicated and runs three hours a day on weekdays. Schlessinger is an outspoken critic of practices that she feels have become too prevalent in contemporary American culture. - Steve Novick
Steve Novick is a Democratic Party candidate for the United States Senate in 2008 from the state of Oregon. He is an attorney and former US Department of Justice litigator who led the Love Canal case on behalf of the United States government. He is an advocate of progressive taxation and reforming the Internal Revenue Code to abolish the distinction between ordinary income (earned from labor) and capital gains income (earned from the exploitation of wealth). - Alan Bennett
Alan Bennett (born May 9, 1934) is an English author and actor noted for his work, his boyish appearance and his sonorous Yorkshire accent. - Queen Latifah
Dana Elaine Owens (born March 18, 1970 in Newark, New Jersey), better known by her stage name Queen Latifah, is an American rapper, singer, and actress. Latifah's work in music and film has earned her a Grammy Award, five additional Grammy nominations, and an Academy Award nomination as well. - Kim Fields
Kim Victoria Fields (born May 12, 1969 in New York, New York) is an American actress. She was one of the first successful African American child actresses on television. Fields was discovered by an acting agent for the sitcom "The Facts of Life" after appearing in a commercial for Mrs. Butterworth's pancake syrup. From 1979 to 1988, she played Tootie Ramsey on the program. This was Field's most notable role. - Arthel Neville
Arthel Neville (born 20 October 1962 in New Orleans, Louisiana), is an American journalist and television personality. She began her career while a junior at the University of Texas at Austin School of Journalism. The first African-American on-air reporter at KVUE-TV, her general assignment beat took her to the streets of Austin covering live breaking news, politics, education, health and human-interest stories. - Ellen MacArthur
Dame Ellen Patricia MacArthur, DBE (born July 8, 1976) is an English sailor from Whatstandwell near Matlock in Derbyshire, now based in Cowes, on the Isle of Wight. She is best known as a solo long-distance yachtswoman who, on February 7, 2005, broke the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe. - Steven Chu
Steven Chu, born 1948 in St. Louis, Missouri, is an American experimental physicist. He is known for his research in laser cooling and trapping of atoms, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1997. His current research is concerned primarily with the study of biological systems at the single molecule level. He is currently Professor of Physics and Molecular and Cellular Biology of University of California, … - Chris de Burgh
Chris de Burgh (born Christopher John Davison on October 15, 1948) is an Irish musician and songwriter. An art rocker who occasionally writes pop-oriented material, Chris de Burgh had huge success in Britain with the 1986 hit "The Lady in Red". He has also gained an astounding popularity in other countries, particularly Germany, Norway, Iran and Brazil. - John Lukacs
John Lukacs is a Hungarian-born American historian who has written more than twenty-five books, including "Five Days in London, May 1940" and "A New Republic". He was a professor of history at Chestnut Hill College (where he succeeded Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn) from 1947 to 1994, and the chair of that history department from 1947 to 1974. He has served as a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University, Columbia University, Princeton University, … - Josh Wink
Josh Wink (born Joshua Winkelman in 1970) is an electronic music DJ, label owner, producer, remixer, and artist. He is a native of Philadelphia, United States. A pioneering DJ in the American rave scene during the early 1990s, Wink was the most prominent exponent of the tribal forms of techno and house in the U.S. Wink's current style is a mixture of techno, acid, house, drum and bass, and experimental music. - Jacques Delors
Jacques Lucien Jean Delors (born July 20 1925 in Paris) is a French economist and politician, the only person to have served two terms as President of the European Commission (between 1985 and 1995). In the 1940s-1960s, Delors held a series of posts in French banking and state planning. Member of the French Confederation of Christian Workers, he participated in its secularization and the foundation of the French Democratic Confederation of Labour.In 1969, … - Mark McGwire
Mark David McGwire (born October 1, 1963 in Pomona, California) is a former professional baseball player who played his major league career with the Oakland Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals. McGwire was a prolific "power hitter" during the 1990s. In the 1998 season, McGwire broke the single-season home run record by hitting 70, which remains the second-highest home run total in one season behind Barry Bonds's 73 in 2001. - Jacques Santer
Jacques Santer (born May 18, 1937) is a politician from Luxembourg. He was finance minister of Luxembourg from 1979 until 1989, and Prime Minister of Luxembourg from 1984 to 1995, as a member of the Christian Social People's Party, which has been the leading party in the Luxembourg government since 1979. As Prime Minister of Luxembourg he also led the negotiations on the Single European Act, which effectively set aside the 20-year old Luxembourg Compromise. - Linda Sue Park
Linda Sue Park is a Korean American author of children's fiction. Park published her first novel, Seesaw Girl, in 1999. To date, she has written six children’s novels and five picture books for younger readers. Park’s work achieved prominence when she received the prestigious 2002 Newbery Medal for her novel A Single Shard.
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