- Alice Strike
Alice Mary Strike (August 31, 1896 - December 22, 2004) was the last surviving female Canadian military First World War veteran. She was so designated as she lived in Canada after the war, but had actually served in the British armed forces. Canada did not allow females to serve in the military until the Second World War. Alice Strike was born in Godalming, Surrey, England. In 1914, she enlisted in the RFC as a pay clerk.
- Hilda Strike
Hilda Strike was a Canadian track athlete and Olympic medalist. Competing in the 1932 Summer Olympics, she won a silver medal in the 4 × 100 metre relay and a silver medal in the 100 metre losing to Stanisława Walasiewicz. In 1972, she was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.
- Sylvaine Strike
Sylvaine Strike is a South African actress, writer and theater director. She was born in Pretoria and studied in Cape Town, where she graduated with a Performer's Diploma in Speech and Drama in 1993. She studied further in Paris at Jacques LeCoq School with an emphasis on physical theater.
- Jack White
Jack White (1942 - October 12, 2005) was a veteran Rhode Island journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of President Richard Nixon's underpayment of income taxes. White's investigative article prompted Nixon to utter his famous line, "I am not a crook." White also won Emmy Awards for his reporting on fugitive banker Joe Mollicone and Providence tax officials who violated the city's residency requirement.
- Matt Williams
Matthew Derrick "Matt" Williams (born November 28, 1965 in Bishop, California) is a former Major League Baseball third baseman and right-handed batter who played for the San Francisco Giants (1987-96), Cleveland Indians (1997) and Arizona Diamondbacks (1998-2003). Williams was originally selected by the New York Mets out of high school but he did not sign. The Giants later drafted him out of college in the first round (3rd pick) of the 1986 amateur draft.
- Jack Jones
James Larkin Jones CH MBE (born March 29, 1913), known as Jack Jones, is a former British trade union leader and former General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union. Jones was born in Garston, Liverpool. He left school at 14 and worked as an engineering apprentice, then as a dock-worker. He served with the British Battalion of the XV International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War and he was seriously wounded at the Battle of Ebro in 1938.
- Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a revolutionary Soviet film director and film theorist noted in particular for his silent films "Strike", "Battleship Potemkin" and "Oktober". His work vastly influenced early film makers owing to his innovative use of and writings about montage.
- Barbara Kopple
Barbara Kopple (born July 30, 1946) is an American film director primarily known for her work in documentary film. She has won two Academy Awards; the first was in 1976, for "Harlan County, USA" about a Kentucky miners' strike, and the second was in 1991, for "American Dream," the story of the Hormel Foods strike in Austin, Minnesota in 1985-1986.
- Kevin Kennedy
Kevin Curtis Kennedy (born May 26, 1954 in Los Angeles, California) is a former manager in American Major League Baseball and a current television host for Fox Sports' baseball coverage. He has been given the nickname "The Skipper" by Fox Sports. Kennedy was a career minor league catcher who played in the Baltimore Orioles and Los Angeles Dodgers farm systems. After a very successful career as a pilot in the Dodger minor league organization, …
- Tim McClelland
Timothy Reid McClelland (born December 12 1951 in Jackson, Michigan) is an umpire in Major League Baseball who has worked in the American League from 1983 to 1999 and throughout both leagues since 2000. He has called many important games, from postseason games to the George Brett "Pine Tar" game. More recently, he was the umpire at the Sammy Sosa corked bat game when the Chicago Cubs hosted the Tampa Bay Devil Rays at Wrigley Field.
- Keith Lockhart
Keith Virgil Lockhart (born November 10, 1964 in Whittier, California) is a retired second baseman and third baseman who played for 10 seasons in the major leagues from 1994-2003. Lockhart, a left-handed batter, played college baseball at Oral Roberts University and was originally drafted by Cincinnati Reds in the 11th round of the 1986 Amateur Draft.
- Jack Horner
John Henry "Jack" Horner, PC (July 20 1927-November 18 2004) is a rancher and former Canadian politician and Cabinet minister. Nicknamed "Cactus Jack", Horner was born in Saskatchewan, the fifth child in a family of six boys and three girls. His mother's uncle had been a prisoner of Louis Riel's provisional government.
- Jim Henderson
D. James Henderson (born August 7, 1940 in Sudbury, Ontario) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1985 to 1995. Henderson was educated at the University of Toronto, the University of Western Ontario, Johns Hopkins University, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.
- Miguel Contreras
Miguel Contreras was an American labor leader. He "was known as a king-maker for both local and state politicians." Contreras was born in the Dinuba, a city in California's agricultural Central Valley to farmworker parents who had immigrated from Mexico during the 1920s under the Bracero Program. After meeting Cesar Chávez at a rally for Robert Kennedy in the late 1960s, he became an activist for the United Farm Workers. He promoted the Delano Grape Boycott in Toronto, …
- Bob Goodenow
Robert W. "Bob" Goodenow (born October 29, 1952 in Dearborn, Michigan) is an American manager, who became the Executive Director of the National Hockey League Players Association in 1992, succeeding the controversial Alan Eagleson. On July 28, 2005, Goodenow announced his resignation as Executive Director, with Ted Saskin being named his replacement. Goodenow graduated from Harvard University in 1974 and from the University of Detroit Law School in 1979.
- Ian Shapiro
Ian Shapiro, Ph.D., Yale University, 1983, J.D., Yale Law School, 1987, is Sterling professor of political science and Henry R. Luce director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, now called the MacMillan Center. His research interests center on sociological aspects of economics and political theory. In particular, he has written extensively on theories of justice, democracy, and resource distribution, …
- Robert Carr
Leonard Robert Carr, Baron Carr of Hadley, PC (born November 11, 1916) is a British Conservative politician. Robert Carr was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where he read Natural sciences, graduating in 1938. He was elected Member of Parliament for Mitcham in 1950 and served there until 1974 when the seat was merged and he moved to Carshalton.
- Eleanor Marx
Eleanor "Tussy" Marx was a Marxist author and political activist as well as the youngest daughter of the founder of Marxism, Karl Marx. Born in London, she was the sixth daughter of Marx and his wife Jenny von Westphalen. She showed an early interest in politics, even writing to political figures during her childhood. The hanging of the "Manchester Martyrs" when she was twelve, for example, horrified her and shaped her life-long sympathy for the Fenians.
- Bob Martinez
Robert "Bob" Martinez was the fortieth governor of Florida from 1987 to 1991. Prior to that, he was the mayor of Tampa from 1979 to 1986. Martinez was the first American governor of Cuban descent, and Florida’s second Republican since Reconstruction to be elected to the governor’s office. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Tampa and went on to earn a master's in labor and industrial relations from the University of Illinois.
- Abed Hamed Mowhoush
Abed Hamed Mowhoush was a major general believed to be in command of the Iraqi Air Force or Iraqi air defence during the regime of Saddam Hussein immediately prior to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, until his capture by United States forces on 10 November, 2003. He died on 26 November, 2003 while in U.S. custody at the Al-Qaim detention facility approximately 200 miles (321 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, …
- Derek Dooley
Derek Dooley, MBE (born 13 December 1929 in Pitsmoor, Sheffield) was an English football player, manager and chairman, and is a legend in Sheffield where he has occupied all of his roles. He is respected by both Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United supporters alike. He started his football league career with Lincoln City in 1946, but made only 2 appearances for "the Imps" before joining Sheffield Wednesday.
- Anna Walentynowicz
Anna Walentynowicz is a Polish free trade union activist. Her firing in August 1980 was the event that led to the strike in the Gdansk Shipyard that paralyzed the Baltic coast and led to the giant wave of strikes in Poland and eventually the creation of Solidarity, of which she became a prominent member. By September nearly a million workers were on strike in support of the twenty one demands, making it the largest strike ever.
- Derek Robinson
Derek Robinson was a well known Trade Union spokesperson and shop steward within the British Leyland (BL) company for much of the 1970s. BL itself had been the result of a series of mergers between a multitude of different British automobile manufacturers. However, the resulting company, the British Leyland Motor Corporation (BLMC), proved to be an unmanageable behemoth, crippled by ineffectual management and product duplication.
- John Leeson
John Leeson is a British actor who although having had a varied stage and television career spanning forty years including both work in repertory and West End productions including "Plaza Suite" (1969); "Flint" (1970) and "Don't Start Without Me" (1971) and character work across a wide range of 1970s television sitcoms including "Dad's Army", is best known for having played the voice of K-9 on the television series "Doctor Who" from 1977 to 1979, …
- Terry Cashman
Terry Cashman (born Dennis Minogue, 5 July 1941, New York) is a record producer and singer-songwriter, best known for his 1981 hit, "Talkin' Baseball." Cashman was the lead singer for a band called The Chevrons in the late 1950s. He also played Minor League Baseball in the Detroit Tigers organization at around the same time. Cashman and Gene Pistilli (later to become Cashman, Pistilli, and West, and also record a #27 hit "Medicine Man", …
- Mike Mathis
Mike Mathis is a former professional basketball referee in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1976 to 2001. Over his career in the NBA, Mathis officiated nearly 2,340 games, including 12 NBA Finals and three NBA All-Star Games. Mathis is also the owner and Chief Executive Officer of ProHoop Courts, Inc., which specializes in the installation of basketball goal systems and playing surfaces. Mathis, a Vietnam War veteran, began officiating in 1967.
- David Speedie
David Robert Speedie (born 20 February 1960 in Glenrothes, Scotland) is a former Scottish footballer who played for numerous clubs during the 1980s and 1990s, most notably Chelsea and Coventry City. He accumulated more than 500 football league appearances and scored almost 150 goals in a 14 year professional career. Speedie also gained 10 caps for the Scottish international team.
- Otto Strasser
Otto Johann Maximilian Strasser was a German politician and left-wing member of the National Socialist (Nazi) party who rejected some of Adolf Hitler's ideas and more moderate economical tendencies (those opposed to a radical socialist change and revolution). Strasser subsequently formed his own faction within the Nazi Party, along with his brother, Gregor Strasser.
- John Holman
John Barkell Holman was a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council for 23 years between 1901 and 1925. Born in Clunes, Victoria, on 26 February 1872, John Holman was the son of miner Edward Holman and Mary Anne nee Barkell. He was educated at Bendigo, then worked as a miner, first at Bendigo, where he became a member of the Bendigo Miners' Association in 1886; and later at Broken Hill, where he was involved in the strike of 1892.
- Dick Dietz
Richard Allen Dietz (September 18 1941 - June 28 2005) was an American catcher in Major League Baseball who played for the San Francisco Giants, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Atlanta Braves from 1966 to 1973. Born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, Dietz enjoyed his best season in 1970 with the Giants, when he batted .300 with 22 home runs and 107 runs batted in. He also drew 109 walks, giving him a superb on-base percentage of .430.
- Per Johansson
Per Johansson (born 1960 ?) is a Swedish trade unionist, a Communist and labor organizer. He worked for Connex in the Stockholm Metro and was the leader of the local branch of the Swedish Union for Service and Communications Employees ("SEKO"), "club 119". Johansson was fired in late September 2005. According to SEKO it was due to complaints of neglected security and safety conditions for workers and passengers, …
- Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Born Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska, formerly Kath Walker) (3 November 1920-16 September 1993) was an Australian poet, Political activist, artist and educator. She was also a campaigner for Aboriginal rights. Oodgeroo was best known for her poetry, and was the first Aboriginal Australian to publish a book of verse. Oodgeroo was born in Minjerribah (Stradbroke Island) in Moreton Bay (east of Brisbane), …
- Léon Jouhaux
Léon Jouhaux was a French trade union leader who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1951. Jouhaux's father worked in a match factory in Aubervilliers. His secondary schooling ended when his father's earnings were stopped by a strike. He gained employment at the factory at age sixteen and immediately became an important part of the union. In 1900, Jouhaux joined a strike against the use of the white phosphorus that blinded his father, was dismissed, …
- Babe Pinelli
Ralph Arthur "Babe" Pinelli, born Rinaldo Angelo Paolinelli, was an American third baseman and umpire in Major League Baseball. Born in San Francisco, his playing career was mostly with the Cincinnati Reds from 1922-1927. He also played with the Chicago White Sox (1918) and Detroit Tigers (1920). After that he became a highly regarded National League umpire from 1935 to 1956, officiating in 6 World Series: 1939, 1941, 1947, 1948 (outfield only), …
- Francisco Largo Caballero
Francisco Largo Caballero (October 15, 1869 -March 23, 1946) was a Spanish politician and trade unionist. He was one of the historic leaders of the Socialist Party (PSOE) and of the Workers' General Union (UGT). Born in Madrid, as a young man he made his living stuccoing walls. He participated in a construction workers strike in 1890 and joined the PSOE in 1894. Upon the death in 1925 of party founder Pablo Iglesias, he succeeded him as head of the party and of the UGT.
- Clarrie O'Shea
Clarence Lyell O’Shea, more commonly known as Clarrie O'Shea, was the Victorian State Secretary of the Australian Tramway & Motor Omnibus Employees' Association who was jailed in 1969 by Sir John Kerr for contempt of the Industrial Court when he disobeyed a court order that his union pay $8,100 in fines, under the penal sections of the "Conciliation and Arbitration Act".
- Jean-Pierre Timbaud
Jean-Pierre Timbaud was the secretary of the steelworkers’ trade union section of the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT). He took part in the strikes which preceded the Popular Front. During the Second World War, he joined the Resistance and organized clandestine trade union committees. Jean-Pierre Timbaud was executed by the Germans on October 22, 1941, along with 26 other Communist hostages detained in Châteaubriant, …
- Harry Quelch
Harry Quelch (30 January, 1858 - 17 September, 1913) was a socialist activist, journalist and trade unionist, brother of Lorenzo Quelch and father of Tom Quelch, also socialist activists. Born in Hungerford, Berkshire, he joined the Democratic Federation (forerunner of the Social Democratic Federation) in 1881 and was elected to its executive in 1883. When much of the party's hierarchy left to form the Socialist League, he remained a supporter of H. M. Hyndman.
- T. Hee
Thorton Hee (26 March 1911 - 30 October 1988) was an American animator, director, and teacher. He is usually credited as T. Hee. Hee worked at Leon Schlesinger Productions from 1935-36 as a character designer. He designed many of the celebrity caricatures used in "The Coo Coo Nut Grove" (1936) and "The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos" (1937). A 1936 Christmas card that he drew, featuring caricatures of the Schlesinger animators, …
- Samuel Sharpe
Samuel 'Sam' Sharpe, or Sharp, (1801, Jamaica - May 23, 1832, Jamaica) was also known as Daddy Sharpe, was the slave leader behind the Jamaican Baptist War slave rebellion.