- Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom was elected the 42nd Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco on December 9, 2003. He was sworn into office on January 8, 2004 by his father, the Honorable William Newsom . Mayor Gavin Newsom has made bold ideas the driving force of his administration. As Mayor, Gavin Newsom uses ideas, innovation and practical solutions to improve the quality of life for all San Franciscans. - Tom Ammiano
Tom Ammiano (born December 15, 1941), a Democrat, is a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors representing District 9, which encompasses parts of the Mission District and the Bernal Heights and Portola neighborhoods. He was elected to the city-wide Board in 1994, and re-elected in 1998, when he became Board President. His efforts to have the Board elected by district instead of city-wide succeeded, and, running as a resident of Bernal Heights, … - Ross Mirkarimi
Ross Mirkarimi (b. 1961) is a progressive on the Board of Supervisors at City Hall in San Francisco, California. He was elected in 2004 to represent the city's fifth district, which encompasses the Haight-Ashbury, parts of Hayes Valley, Western Addition, Alamo Square and a portion of the Inner Sunset neighborhoods. Mirkarimi co-founded the California chapter of the Green Party. - Bevan Dufty
Bevan Dufty is an American politician and a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He represents Distict 8, which includes the Castro, Noe Valley, Glen Park, and Diamond Heights neighborhoods.He is the son of writer William Dufty and Maely Bartholomew. Dufty attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a student body co-president. Dufty received a Degree in Political Science and Journalism. - Ed Jew
Edmund "Ed" Jew is a third generation San Franciscan and a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors representing District 4, which comprises most of the Sunset District. His grandfather emigrated from China around the turn of the century. By 1927, his grandfather James Jew had established the well known Canton Flower Shop in Chinatown and became a distinguished leader in the Chinese community. - Liz Kniss
Liz Kniss (born October 11, on Cape Cod, Massachusetts) is currently the chair of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors in San Jose, CA. Kniss received a BS degree in Nursing from Simmons College in Boston and a MPA in Public and Health Care Policy from California State University. She has also completed graduate work in Health Policy and Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. - David Thomas
David Thomas (June 11, 1762 - November 27, 1831) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Pelham, Massachusetts, he completed preparatory studies, served as a volunteer in 1777, and joined the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment as a corporal in 1781, later becoming a sergeant in the Third Massachusetts Regiment. He moved to Salem, New York in 1784, where he conducted a tavern for several years. - Kate Murray
Kate Murray is the Supervisor of the Town of Hempstead, New York. Murray is the first woman to be elected supervisor in the Hempstead Town's 363-year history. A Republican, she previously served as a member of the New York State Assembly and then as Clerk for the Town of Hempstead. Murray was appointed Supervisor by the Hempstead Town Board in 2003, after Town of Hempstead Supervisor Richard V. Guardino Jr. resigned. - Michael Okuda
Michael Okuda is a graphic designer who is best known for his work on "Star Trek". In the mid-1980s he designed the look of animated computer displays for the "Enterprise"-A bridge in "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home". This led to a staff position on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" in 1987 as a scenic artist, adding detail to set designs and props. - Terence Hallinan
Terence Hallinan was elected District Attorney of the City and County of San Francisco on December 12, 1995, after serving for seven years as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Mr. Hallinan was elected on a platform of change, stressing the need to focus on combating violent crime, streamline the operations of the District Attorney's office, and implement a vigorous neighborhood liaison program, as well as other innovations. - Cecil B. Demille
Cecil Blount DeMille was a very successful American filmmaker in the first half of the 20th century. - Patrick Tatopoulos
Patrick Tatopoulos is a renowned French-American production designer. He is considered by many as a visionary, creating innovative, exciting concepts for filmed and computer generated environments. His unique designs, rich with mood, character and distinction, have appeared in numerous box office hit motion pictures, including such movies as "Underworld", "I, Robot", "The Chronicles of Riddick", "Independence Day", "Bram Stoker's Dracula", … - Walter Benjamin
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was also greatly inspired by the Marxism of Bertolt Brecht and Jewish mysticism as presented by Gershom Scholem. As a sociological and cultural critic, Benjamin combined ideas of historical materialism, German idealism, … - Tex Avery
Frederick Bean "Fred/Tex" Avery (February 26, 1908 - August 26, 1980) was an American animator, cartoonist, and director, famous for producing animated cartoons during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He did his most significant work for the Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, creating the characters of Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Droopy, Screwball Squirrel, and developing Porky Pig and Chilly Willy into regular cartoon characters. - Louis Malle
Louis Malle (October 30 1932 - November 23 1995) was an Academy Award nominated French film director, working in both French and English. - Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze, (January 18, 1925 - November 4, 1995) was a French philosopher of the late 20th century. From the early 1960s until his death, Deleuze wrote many influential works on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular books were the two volumes of "Capitalism and Schizophrenia": "Anti-Oedipus" (1972) and "A Thousand Plateaus" (1980), both co-written with Félix Guattari. - David O. Selznick
David O. Selznick (May 10, 1902-June 22, 1965), was one of the iconic Hollywood producers of the Golden Age. He is best known for producing the epic blockbuster "Gone with the Wind" (1939) which earned him an Oscar for Best Picture. Not only did "Gone with the Wind" gross the highest amount of money at the box office of any film ever (adjusted for inflation), but it also won seven additional Oscars and two special awards. - Leo Buscaglia
Leo Buscaglia , known as "Dr. Hug," was the author of a series of best-selling books on loving and human relationships. Born in 1924, he was the son of Italian immigrants in Los Angeles. He earned a bachelor's degree in English and speech, a master's degree in language and speech pathology, and a Ph.D. in language and speech pathology. - Jimmy Doolittle
General James Harold "Jimmy" Doolittle, Sc.D. USAF (December 14 1896 - September 27 1993) was an American aviation pioneer. Doolittle served with as a general in the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War, earning the Medal of Honor as the commander of the Doolittle Raid. - Adam Phillips
Adam Phillips (born January 1971) is an Australian freelance animator. His recent work, for which he is best known, has consisted of flash animation compositions published on his website Bitey Castle and on the flash portal Newgrounds (there, as of December 2006, his movies have over six million views and he is the third highest-rated artist with a 'Batting Average' of 4.21 out of 5). He is the creator of the Brackenwood series. - Charlie Adams
Charlie Adams is an American drummer, percussionist, and drum engineer who has been drum lead for Yanni through nine major concert tours. Yanni and Adams have recorded 14 albums that have gone platinum and double platinum. He is widely recognized for his drum solo on the "Yanni Live at the Acropolis" video, the second best-selling music video of all time. - Mack Sennett
Mack Sennett (January 17, 1880 - November 5, 1960) was an innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times as the "King of Comedy." - Friz Freleng
Isadore "Friz" Freleng (August 21, 1906 -May 26, 1995) was an animator, cartoonist, director, and producer best known for his work on the "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" series of cartoons from Warner Bros. He introduced and/or developed several of the studio's biggest stars, including Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the cat, Yosemite Sam (to whom he was said to bear more than a passing resemblance) and Speedy Gonzales. - 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. - Varian Fry
Varian Mackey Fry (October 15 1907 - September 13 1967) was a Hotchkiss School and Harvard University educated American journalist who ran a rescue network in Vichy France that helped approximately 2,000 to 4,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees to escape Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Varian Fry founded "Hound & Horn", an influential literary quarterly, in 1927 with Lincoln Kirstein while an undergraduate at Harvard. He married Kirstein's sister, Eileen. - Leo McCarey
Thomas Leo McCarey (October 3, 1898 - July 5, 1969) was a film director, screenwriter and producer. During his lifetime he was involved in almost 200 movies, especially comedies, where he demonstrated his great elegance and his fine sense of humour. French director Jean Renoir once said that no other Hollywood director understood people better than Leo McCarey. Born in Los Angeles, California, he began in the movie business as an assistant director to Tod Browning in 1920, … - Carl Laemmle
Carl Laemmle, born in Laupheim, Württemberg, Germany, was a pioneer in American film making and a founder of one of the original major Hollywood movie studios. Laemmle produced or was otherwise involved in over four hundred films. Regarded as one of the most important of the early film pioneers, Laemmle was born on the Radstrasse just outside the former Jewish quarter of Laupheim, Germany. He emigrated to the United States in 1884, … - Hideaki Anno
born 22 May 1960 in Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan) is a Japanese animation and video director. Anno is best known for his work on the popular anime series "Neon Genesis Evangelion". His style has come to be defined by the touches of superflatism and postmodernism that he injects into his work, as well as the psychological exposition of his characters and his thorough portrayal of their thoughts and emotions. He married comics artist Moyoco Anno in 2002. - Roberto Rossellini
Roberto Rossellini was an Italian film director. Rossellini was one of the most important directors of Italian neorealist cinema, contributing films such as "Roma città aperta" to the movement. - Lucio Fulci
Lucio Fulci was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is best known for his directorial work on splatter films, including "Zombi II" (1979) and "The Beyond" (1981), although he made films in genres as diverse as giallo, western, and comedy. - Hal Mooney
Hal Mooney was an American composer and arranger, born Harold Mooney (under which name he was occasionally credited professionally) on 4 February 1911, in Brooklyn, New York. He died on 23 March 1995, in Los Angeles, California. - Howard Rogers
Howard Rogers (1932-) is an illustrator who specialised in drawing nude figures and cowboy scenes. Rogers grew up in San Diego, California, where his parents encouraged him to pursue his artistic talents at a young age. After Rogers finished high school, he took a job as a sign painter for three years. Rogers then served some time in the U.S. military and later returned home to work as the supervisor of a chain of supermarkets. - Lao She
Lao She was a noted Chinese writer. A novelist and dramatist, he was one of the most significant figures of 20th century Chinese literature, and is perhaps best known for his novel "Camel Xiangzi" or "Rickshaw Boy" (駱駝祥子) and the play "Teahouse" (茶館). He was of Manchu ethnicity. He was born Shū Qìngchūn (舒慶春) in Beijing, to a poor family of the Sūmuru clan belonging to the Red Banner. - Frank Tashlin
Frank Tashlin (born Francis Fredrick von Taschlein, February 19, 1913 – May 5, 1972, also known as Tish Tash or Frank Tash) was an American animator, screenwriter, and film director. - Hal B. Wallis
Hal B. Wallis (September 14, 1898 - October 5, 1986) was an American motion picture producer. Born Harold Brent Wallis in Chicago, Illinois, his family moved in 1922 to Los Angeles, California, where he found work as part of the publicity department at Warner Bros. in 1923. Within a few years, Wallis became involved in the production end of the business and would eventually become head of production at Warners. - Mervyn Leroy
Mervyn LeRoy (October 15, 1900 - September 13, 1987) was an American film director, producer and sometime actor. - Simon Slater
Simon Slater is a British actor and composer. He has been performing, playing and composing since his early teens and continued through university when he attended Goldsmiths College at the University of London. He plays piano, double bass, saxophone, clarinet, and the ukulele. Slater has had numerous music scores in theatre and films. He most recently worked as composer was "Henry V" and "Julius Caesar" for the Royal Shakespeare Company, … - Bruce Nestande
Bruce Nestande is an U.S. politician who was a Republican California State Assemblyman and Orange County Supervisor. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Nestande graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1960 and earned his J.D. from Lincoln University. He was a special assistant to Governor Ronald Reagan from 1971–1972 and Executive Director of the California Republican Party from 1972–1973. - Nathaniel Allen
Nathaniel Allen was a United States Representative from New York. Allen was born in what is now East Bloomfield, Ontario County, New York before the town was established. He worked as a blacksmith before becoming postmaster in Honeoye Falls (1811), a militia officer during the War of 1812 and a New York Assemblyman in 1812. He was Sheriff of Ontario County (1814 -1819). Nathaniel Allen was elected the 16th United States Congress for one term, 1819-1921. - Akitoshi Kawazu
is a Japanese game producer who was born in Kumamoto Prefecture. He is the creator of the "SaGa" console role-playing game series and is now an Executive Producer of Square Enix. Kawazu is also the head of Square Enix's Production Team 2.
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