- George Lucas
George Walton Lucas, Jr. is a four-time Academy Award nominated American film director, producer, and screenwriter famous for his epic "Star Wars" saga and Indiana Jones films — the latter a collaboration with his friend Steven Spielberg. He is one of American film industry's most financially successful independent directors and producers, with an estimated net worth of $3.6 billion.
- Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor. He is best known for his performances as the tough, wisecracking space pilot Han Solo in the "Star Wars" film series, and the adventurous archaeologist/action hero in the Indiana Jones film series. Ford has also been the star of many high-grossing hits Hollywood blockbusters such as "Air Force One" and "The Fugitive", which have distanced him from his famous Star Wars and Indiana Jones roles.
- Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman, born Natalie Hershlag on June 9, 1981, in Jerusalem, Israel is a Golden Globe-winning, Academy Award-nominated Israeli-American actress.
- George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America. Originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001, Bush was elected president in the 2000 presidential election and re-elected in the 2004 presidential election. He previously served as the forty-sixth Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000, and is the eldest son of former United States president George H. W. Bush.
- John Williams
John Towner Williams (born February 8 1932) is an American composer, conductor and pianist. In a career that spans six decades, Williams has composed many of the most famous film scores in history, including those for "Jaws", "Star Wars", "Superman", "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial", "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "Jurassic Park", "Schindler's List", "Hook", "Memoirs of a Geisha", and "Harry Potter".
- Ewan McGregor
I was born on March 31, 1971, in Perth Royal Hospital, Scotland. I was the second son of teachers Jim and Carol McGregor. My brother Colin, a tornado fighter pilot, is two years older than me. I grew up in the small town of Crieff
- Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981-1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967-1975). Reagan was born in Illinois, but moved to Hollywood in the 1930s, where he starred in numerous "B" movies and became President of the Screen Actors Guild. He was a prominent Democrat who supported the New Deal Coalition in the 1940s, and was a leading opponent of Communism in Hollywood.
- Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21, 1948) is an American actor. Jackson came to fame in the early 1990s, after a series of well-reviewed performances, and has since become a major film star and cultural icon, having appeared in a large number of high-grossing films. Jackson is currently working on seven films that will debut between 2007 and 2009. In motion pictures that feature him as a leading actor or supporting co-star, …
- Hayden Christensen
Hayden Christensen (born April 19, 1981) is a Canadian actor. He appeared in Canadian television programs when he was young, then diversified into American television in the late 1990s. He moved on to minor acting roles before being praised for his role of Sam in "Life as a House". He gained international fame playing the young adult Anakin Skywalker in the "Star Wars" films.
- Carrie Fisher
Carrie Frances Fisher (born October 21, 1956) is an American actress, screenwriter and novelist. She is perhaps most famous for her portrayal of Princess Leia Organa in the original "Star Wars" trilogy, although her comedic novels also have won praise.
- Mark Hamill
Mark Richard Hamill (born September 25, 1951) is an American actor. Hamill is best known for his portrayal of Luke Skywalker in the original "Star Wars" films, Colonel Christopher "Maverick" Blair in the Wing Commander franchise, and as the voice of The Joker in "Batman: The Animated Series". After the "Star Wars" films, Hamill worked on Broadway, as a voice actor in animation and computer and video games, …
- Liam Neeson
Liam Neeson , born in Ireland, studied to be a teacher before turning to acting. He received an Academy Award nomination for his work in Schindlers List , a Golden Globe nomination for Michael Collins , and a Tony Award nomination for Anna Christie . He has starred in numerous films including Star Wars: Episode 1The Phantom Menace; Nell; and Husbands and Wives .
- Karen Traviss
Karen Traviss is a science fiction author and full-time novelist from Wiltshire, England. Originally from the Portsmouth area, Traviss worked as both a journalist and defence correspondent before turning her attention to writing fiction. She also served in both the Territorial Army and the Royal Naval Auxiliary Service. Traviss is a graduate of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy workshop. Her first published novel, "City of Pearl" (2004), …
- Qui-Gon Jinn
Qui-Gon Jinn is a fictional character in the "Star Wars" universe, portrayed by Liam Neeson in "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace". He also appears frequently in the "Star Wars" Expanded Universe of comic books, video games and novels.
- Anthony Daniels
Anthony Kingsley Daniels (born February 21, 1946 in Salisbury, England), and educated at Giggleswick School, is an English actor best known for his role as the droid C-3PO in the "Star Wars" series of films made between 1977 and 2005. It is interesting to note that Daniels and Kenny Baker (who played R2-D2 in the series) are the only actors credited as playing the same role in all six of the Star Wars films.
- James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones (b. January 17, 1931) is an American Emmy- and Tony Award-winning actor of film and stage, well known for his deep baritone voice.
- Ian McDiarmid
Ian McDiarmid (born August 11, 1944) is a Tony Award-winning Scottish actor. He has had a successful career in theatre; he has been cast in many plays, while occasionally directing others. Although McDiarmid has appeared mostly in theatrical productions, he has also accepted roles in theatrical films and TV movies. Worldwide, he is most famous for his role as Palpatine in both the original and prequel "Star Wars" trilogies.
- Kevin J. Anderson
Kevin J. Anderson (born March 27, 1962) is a prolific American science fiction author. He has written spin-off novels for "Star Wars", "StarCraft", "Titan A.E.", and "The X-Files", and is the co-author of the "Dune" prequels. His original works include the "Saga of Seven Suns" series and the Nebula Award-nominated "Assemblers of Infinity".
- Ben Burtt
Ben Burtt (born July 12, 1948 in Syracuse, New York) is the archetypal sound designer (a term he invented) and sound editor for many famous and noteworthy films, as well as directing an Oscar-nominated documentary.
- Alec Guinness
Sir Alec Guinness CH CBE (April 2, 1914 - August 5, 2000) was an Academy Award and Tony Award-winning English actor who became one of the most versatile and best-loved performers of his generation.
- Peter Mayhew
Peter Mayhew (born May 19, 1944 in Barnes, London, England) is an English actor, best known for playing the Wookiee, Chewbacca in the "Star Wars" movies. He is 7'3" (2.22 meters) tall. Before getting into acting, Mayhew worked as an orderly at London's King's College Hospital.
- Peter Cushing
Peter Wilton Cushing, OBE, (26 May 1913-11 August1994) was an English actor, known for his many appearances in Hammer Films, in which he played Baron Frankenstein and Dr. Van Helsing, often appearing opposite his close friend Christopher Lee. He was also asked, because he was such a familiar face on both sides of the Atlantic, to appear as Grand Moff Tarkin in the original "Star Wars" film.
- John Barry
John Barry was an influential British production designer. Barry was born in London. He was described by Richard Donner as a “genius” and best known for his work on fantasy films. Amongst his credits are "A Clockwork Orange", "Star Wars", and the first two "Superman" films. The polished surfaces of the Death Star and the crystalline Krypton in these two films are the clearest expressions of Barry's personal style.
- Kenny Baker
Kenneth George Baker (born August 24, 1934) is a British dwarf actor best known as the man inside of R2-D2 in the popular "Star Wars" film series. Baker, who stands 3 feet, 8 inches (112 cm) tall, was a circus and cabaret performer with entertainer Jack Purvis when George Lucas hired him to be the man inside R2-D2 in "Star Wars" in 1977. Baker appears in five of the six "Star Wars" films; though credited on Episode III, he never filmed any scenes.
- Rick McCallum
Richard McCallum (born 1952 in Heidelberg, Germany) is a film producer most famous for his work on the "Star Wars" prequel trilogy and special editons as well as "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles". He also worked extensively with the British television writer Dennis Potter, producing much of Potter's later work in the late 1980s and early 1990s after Potter parted company with his long-term producer Kenith Trodd.
- R. A. Salvatore
Robert Anthony Salvatore, Massachusetts, who writes under the name R. A. Salvatore, is a fantasy author best known for "The DemonWars Saga", his "Forgotten Realms" novels and the controversial Star Wars: The New Jedi Order novel Vector Prime.
- Troy Denning
Troy Denning (b. 1958) is a fantasy and science fiction author of the "New York Times" bestselling novel "Waterdeep" (1989), which he wrote with Scott Ciencin under the pseudonym "Richard Awlinson". Other notable works are "Dragonwall", "Pages of Pain" and "The Parched Sea". He is also known for his work on the epilogue to the Avatar Trilogy, "Crucible: The Trial of Cyric The Mad".
- Ralph McQuarrie
Ralph McQuarrie (b. June 13 1929, Gary, Indiana) is a conceptual designer and futurist responsible for the look of "Star Wars" (all of the original trilogy), the original "Battlestar Galactica" (TV), "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" and "Cocoon", for which he won an Academy Award. He is a contemporary of Syd Mead, another conceptual designer/futurist, with whom he attended school. "RMQ", as he is known to sign original works, …
- John Knoll
John Knoll is an Academy-award winning motion picture visual effects specialist at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). One of the original creators of Adobe Photoshop (along with his brother, Thomas), he is recently best known for his work as Visual Effects Supervisor on the "Star Wars" prequels and the 1997 special editions of the original trilogy.
- Shaak Ti
Shaak Ti is a fictional character in the "Star Wars" universe. She was portrayed by Orli Shoshan in "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones" and "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith", and voiced by Grey DeLisle in the animated series "Star Wars: Clone Wars".
- Gary Kurtz
Gary Kurtz (born July 27 1940 in Los Angeles, California) is a two time Academy Award nominated film producer whose list of credits include "American Graffiti", "Star Wars" and "The Empire Strikes Back". He went on to produce "The Dark Crystal" and "Return to Oz" after departing from the Star Wars series.
- Steve Sansweet
Stephen J. Sansweet (born 1945) is the Director of Content Management and Head of Fan Relations at Lucasfilm and the owner of the world's largest private collection of Star Wars memorabilia. Sansweet is also the author of 12 books, 10 of them about Star Wars. He lives in Northern California.
- Aaron Allston
Aaron Allston (born 1960 in Corsicana, Texas) is an American novelist of many science fiction books, notably "Star Wars" novels. His works include those of the "X-Wing" series: "Wraith Squadron", "Iron Fist", "Solo Command", "Starfighters of Adumar". He has also written two entries in the "New Jedi Order" series: "Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream", and "Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand".
- Lawrence Kasdan
Lawrence Kasdan (born 14 January, 1949, Miami, Florida) is an American movie producer, director and screenwriter. Raised in Morgantown, West Virginia, where he graduated from Morgantown High School in 1966, he went on to attend the University of Michigan as an education major. After working as a freelance advertising copywriter, Kasdan's introduction into the film business came in the mid-1970s when he sold his script for "The Bodyguard" to Warner Bros.
- Steve Perry
Steve Perry is a television writer and science fiction author. He has written books in the Star Wars, Alien and Conan universes, but is perhaps best known for the Matador series. He is a practitioner of the martial art Silat, which inspired him to create the fictional martial arts Sumito and Teräs Käsi, both of which are essentially fictionalized versions of Silat. Perry is father of science fiction author S. D. Perry.
- Jeremy Bulloch
Jeremy Bulloch (born February 16, 1945 in Market Harborough, Leicestershire) is a British actor. He has appeared in numerous British TV and film productions, including "Doctor Who" and "Robin of Sherwood". In a career spanning almost half a century, he is perhaps most famous for his minor role as Boba Fett in the Star Wars films "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi". He also has a minor role in two James Bond films as Smithers, …
- Exar Kun
Exar Kun, Dark Lord of the Sith is a fictional character in the "Star Wars" Expanded Universe. His first appearance was in Kevin J. Anderson's "Jedi Academy trilogy".
- Jan Duursema
Jan Duursema is an artist who has produced illustrations for many "Star Wars" comics. She was the creator of Denin and Vila from Naldar, the Twi'lek Jedi Aayla Secura and the Kiffar Jedi Quinlan Vos. She often works with John Ostrander. She is married to artist Tom Mandrake, both of whom did the art for "Marvel Star Wars 92: The Dream". She was the basis for the character Ur-Sema Du. Outside Star Wars, …
- Masi Oka
Oka: I got to see a little bit of it, but I guess the crowd reacted well. It was very cool, because I realize that Hiro is kind of representative of all the comic book geeks. I myself am a big Manga freak as well, so I was just happy that I could give it justice, and it seemed like a lot of the audience members did connect to the character, so that was very cool.
- Robert Watts
Robert Watts is a British film producer who is best known for his involvement with the "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" film series.