- Lauren Conrad
Lauren Katherine Conrad (born February 1, 1986), often referred to as "L.C.", is an American reality television star and student. She is best known for her role in the MTV reality series "Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County" and "The Hills", the latter of which earned her a Teen Choice Award in 2006.
- Jeremy Piven
Jeremy Samuel Piven (born July 26, 1965) is an Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-nominated American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Ari Gold on the HBO series "Entourage".
- Eudora Welty
Eudora Welty (b. April 13 1909, Jackson, Mississippi - d. July 23 2001, Jackson, Mississippi) was an award-winning author and photographer who wrote about the American South. Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi and lived a significant portion of her life in the city's Belhaven neighborhood, where her home has been preserved. She was educated at the Mississippi State College for Women (now called Mississippi University for Women), the University of Wisconsin-Madison, …
- William Hung
William Hung (Traditional Chinese: 孔慶翔, Simplified Chinese: 孔庆翔, Cantonese Yale: Hung2 Hing3 Cheung4, Pinyin: Kǒng Qìngxiáng) (born January 13, 1983) is an American college student who gained fame in early 2004 as a result of his off-key audition performance of Ricky Martin's hit song "She Bangs" on the third season of the television series "American Idol".
- Lee Hsien Loong
Lee Hsien Loong (born February 10 1952) is the third and current Prime Minister of Singapore. He also serves as the Minister for Finance. Lee Hsien Loong is the eldest son of Singapore's first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and is married to Ho Ching, who is the Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the government-owned Temasek Holdings.
- Max Born
Max Born (December 11, 1882 - January 5, 1970) was a German mathematician and physicist. He won the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Stanley Kunitz
Stanley Jasspon Kunitz /'kju:nɪts/ (July 29, 1905 – May 14, 2006) was a noted American poet who served two years (1974-1976) as the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (a precursor to the modern Poet Laureate program), and served another year as United States Poet Laureate in 2000.
- Sara Jean Underwood
Sara Jean Underwood (born 26 March 1984) is an American model and student. She first appeared as the cover model for the October 2005 issue of "Playboy". She went on to become Playmate of the Month for July 2006 and 2007 Playmate of the Year in the June 2007 issue of the men's magazine. She is a senior at Oregon State University. She is a native of Portland, Oregon and graduated from Scappoose High School in 2002.
- Eli Wallach
Eli Herschel Wallach (born December 7, 1915) is an American film, TV and stage actor.
- Ron Dellums
I apologize in advance for the length of this post. I wanted to address the Ron Dellums's State of the City address fairly and completely. Below I have noted (in order) every point the Mayor hit during his speech, followed by relevant supplementary information and/or my thoughts on the topic. I considered breaking it up into a few different posts, but then I decided that spreading it out would make it seem like I'm just beating up on Dellums non-stop, and that isn't my intention.
- Les Aspin
Leslie "Les" Aspin, Jr. (July 21, 1938 - May 21, 1995) was a United States Congressman from 1971 to 1993, and the United States Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton from January 21, 1993 to February 3, 1994.
- S. J. Perelman
Sidney Joseph Perelman, almost always known as S. J. Perelman (February 1 1904 - October 17 1979), was an American humorist, author, and screenwriter. He is primarily known for his humorous short pieces written over many years for "The New Yorker magazine".
- Horatio Alger Jr.
Horatio Alger, Jr. (January 13, 1832 - July 18, 1899) was a 19th-century American author who wrote approximately 135 dime novels. Many of his works have been described as rags to riches stories, illustrating how down-and-out boys might be able to achieve the American dream of wealth and success through hard work, courage, determination, and concern for others.
- Andrew Shue
Andrew Shue (born February 20, 1967 in Wilmington, Delaware USA) is an actor, perhaps best known for his role on "Melrose Place" (1992-1998). Andrew is the brother of actress Elisabeth Shue. He has been married since 1994 and has two children.
- Chang-Lin Tien
Chang-lin Tien, as the 8th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1990–97), was the first Asian American and Chinese American to head a major U.S. university. Born in Wuhan, mainland China, Tien and his family fled to Taiwan in 1949 at the end of the Chinese Civil War. He earned a BS in mechanical engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1955 and went on to a fellowship at the University of Louisville in 1956, …
- Joseph Nacchio
Joseph P. Nacchio (born June 22, 1949), in Brooklyn, New York, was chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Qwest Communications International from 1997 to 2002. He was convicted of 19 counts of insider trading in Qwest stock on April 19, 2007.
- Agnieszka Włodarczyk
Agnieszka Włodarczyk comes from Sławno. Since her early childhood she's been interested in dance and then in music. She took part in Janusz Józefowicz's casting to "Metro" and after that he proposed her further classes in the theatre. Her debut on the big screen was in Maciej Slesicki's movie "Sara" (1997), where she performed together with Polish movie stars like Boguslaw Linda and Cezary Pazura. She became very popular thanks to the part of Agnieszka, …
- Red Auerbach
Arnold Jacob "Red" Auerbach (September 20 1917 - October 28 2006) was a highly successful and influential basketball coach of the BAA Washington Nationals, the NBA Tri-Cities Blackhawks and the NBA Boston Celtics. In the closing stages of his career, he worked as a front office executive and president of the Celtics until his death. As a coach, the son of an Russian Jewish immigrant won 938 games, a record at his retirement, and won nine titles with the Celtics, …
- Ed Asner
Edward Asner (born November 15, 1929) is an American actor known for his Emmy-winning role as Lou Grant on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", and later continued in a spinoff series, "Lou Grant". He is currently a recurring guest star as Wilson White on the television series "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip".
- 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.
- John Wayne
John Wayne (May 26, 1907 - June 11, 1979) was an iconic, Academy Award-winning, American film actor. He epitomized ruggedly individualistic masculinity, and has become an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive voice, walk and height. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Wayne thirteenth among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. A Harris Poll released in 2007 placed Wayne third among America's favorite film stars, …
- Muammar Al-Gaddafi
Colonel Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi<sup><small>1</small></sup>; (") (born c. 1942) has been the "de facto leader of Libya since 1969. Although Gaddafi holds no public office or title, he is accorded the honorifics "Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya" or "Brotherly Leader and Guide of the Revolution" in government statements and the official press.
- Amy Winehouse
Amy Winehouse (born 14 September, 1983) is an English soul, jazz and R&B singer and songwriter. Her debut album, "Frank" (released in 2003) was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Winehouse is a two-time Ivor Novello Award winner; once in 2004 for her debut single "Stronger than Me" and again in May 2007 for the first single "Rehab" from her 2006 internationally acclaimed second album "Back to Black".
- Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr, CBE (born 30 September 1921) is a Golden Globe award winning Scottish actress who is best known today for starring in the films "The King and I", "An Affair to Remember" and "From Here to Eternity". Nominated six times for an Academy Award as Best Actress, she never won, but was a recipient of an Academy Honorary Award for a motion picture career that has always represented "Perfection, Discipline and Elegance".
- Ann Marie Doory
Delegate Ann Marie L. Doory, is an American politician who represents the 43rd legislative district of the Maryland General Assembly in Annapolis Maryland
- Manning Marable
Manning Marable (b. 13 May 1950 in Dayton, Ohio) is an American political scholar. He holds the position of Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, and History at Columbia University, where he founded and directed the Institute for Research in African-American Studies. He has published widely, and is politically active in a variety of progressive causes.
- Mario Lanza
Mario Lanza (31 January 1921 - 7 October 1959) was an American tenor and Hollywood movie star who enjoyed success in the late 1940s and 1950s. His voice was considered by many to rival that of Enrico Caruso, whom Lanza portrayed in the 1951 film "The Great Caruso". Lanza was able to sing all types of music. While his highly emotional style was not always universally praised by critics, he was immensely popular and his many recordings are still prized today.
- Manmohan Singh
Dr. Manmohan Singh is the 17<sup>th</sup> and current Prime Minister of India. Dr. Singh is a member of the Indian National Congress party and became the first Sikh to become Prime Minister of India on May 22, 2004. He is arguably the most educated Indian Prime Minister in history. He is considered one of the most qualified and influential figures in India's recent history, …
- Kerri Strug
Kerri Allyson Strug (born November 19, 1977) is an American gymnast from Tucson, Arizona.
- Daron Malakian
Daron Vartan Malakian (born 18 July, 1975 in Hollywood, California, USA) is the lead guitarist in the Armenian-American band System of a Down. Malakian has written most of the band's music, and, more recently, has taken on a large share of the vocal work for the band as well. Like the rest of the Hollywood-based band, he is of Armenian ancestry, but is the only member to actually have been born inside the U.S. (Los Angeles).
- Eddie August Schneider
Eddie August Schneider (October 20, 1911 - December 23, 1940) set the transcontinental airspeed record for pilots under the age of twenty-one in 1930. When he received his pilot's license, he was the youngest licensed pilot in the United States. He was a pilot in the Spanish Civil War in the Yankee Squadron and he died in 1940 while training a new pilot, when a bomber clipped his tail at Floyd Bennett Field.
- Leona Lewis
Leona Louise Lewis (born April 3 1985 in Islington, London) is an English Ivor Novello award winning singer and songwriter, who was the winner of the third series of the "The X Factor". Her debut single, "A Moment like This" was released on 20 December 2006. The single was also available as a digital download from midnight on 17 December and broke a world record after it was downloaded fifty thousand times in thirty minutes.
- Yulia Nova
Yulia Nova (Russian: "Юлия Нова", b. November 26, 1982 in Moscow, Russia), is a Russian erotic model. Among fans, Nova is known for her unusually large, natural "G"-cup breasts juxtaposed with her slim figure. Nova attributes the size of her breasts to heredity. Nova is a university law student who entered a Russian beauty contest sponsored by photographer Satoshi Kizu, in the summer of 2000. Nova was chosen over one hundred other applicants.
- Gordon Moore
Gordon Earle Moore (b. January 3, 1929 in San Francisco, California) is the co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation and the author of Moore's Law (published in an article 19 April 1965 in "Electronics Magazine"). Moore was born in San Francisco, California. He received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1950 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry and Physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1954.
- Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American socialist organizer, professor who was associated with the Black Panther Party (BPP) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Davis's main association however, was her membership in the Communist Party USA. She first achieved nationwide notoriety when she was linked to the murder of judge Harold Haley during an attempted Black Panther prison break; she fled underground, …
- Larry Kellner
Lawrence W. "Larry" Kellner (born 1959) has been CEO of Continental Airlines since December 2004. He previously served as a vice president, chief financial officer and chief operations officer for the airline. Kellner grew up in Sumter, South Carolina. He graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1981 with a degree in accounting. He resides in Houston, Texas.
- Mary Kay Letourneau
Mary Kay Fualaau (born, former married name Mary Kay Letourneau; birth name Mary Katherine Schmitz) is a former schoolteacher known for having a sexual relationship, and two children, with her underage pupil. She was convicted of statutory rape and was sentenced to seven years in prison.
- Lynden David Hall
Lynden David Hall (May 7, 1974 - February 14, 2006) was a singer, songwriter, arranger, and producer. Born in Wandsworth, South London, he won the 'best newcomer' accolade at the 1998 MOBO (Music of Black Origin) Awards. In 1999, he was the first U.K. performer ever voted "Best Male Artist" by the readers of Britain's "Blues & Soul" magazine. His debut album, "Medicine For My Pain", as well as the singles "Do I Qualify" and "Sexy Cinderella", …
- Simon Reynolds
Simon Reynolds (born 1963 in London), is an influential British music critic who is well-known for his writings on electronic dance music and for coining the term "post-rock". Besides electronic dance music, Reynolds has written about a wide range of artists and musical genres, and has written books on post-punk and rock. He has contributed to "Melody Maker" (where he first made his name), "The New York Times", "Village Voice", "Spin", …
- Guido Westerwelle
Dr. iur. Guido Westerwelle (born December 27, 1961) is a German politician and leader of the center right party Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP), sometimes called the liberal party, meaning the party is for liberalization of markets. As such he is also the current Leader of the Opposition within the German parliament.