- Bill Gates
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and the chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. During his career at Microsoft he has held the positions of CEO and chief software architect, and he remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8% of the common stock. "Forbes" magazine's list of The World's Billionaires has ranked him as the richest person in the world since 1995, …
- Dennis Washington
Dennis R. Washington, (born 1934), is a Montana-based industrialist and philanthropist who owns, or owns controlling interest in, a large consortium of privately held companies collectively known as the Washington Companies. With an estimated current net worth of around $2.8 billion, he is ranked by "Forbes" as the 98th-richest person in America. Born in Spokane, Dennis Washington grew up in Spokane, Bremerton, Washington, and Missoula, Montana.
- Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1856 - November 14, 1915) was an American educator, author and leader of the African American community. Washington was born into slavery to a white father and a black slave mother on a rural farm in south-central Virginia; the slaves were freed in 1865 by the thirteenth amendment. He attended Hampton University and Wayland Seminary.
- Sylvester Stallone
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- Norman Solomon
Norman Solomon (1951-) is an American journalist, media critic and antiwar activist. A longtime associate of the media watch group Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR), Solomon is also the founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, a national consortium of policy researchers and analysts which works pro-actively to provide alternative sources for journalists. His weekly column, "Media Beat", has been in national syndication since 1992.
- Matt Drudge
Matthew Drudge (born October 27, 1966) is an American Internet journalist and a talk radio host. He is best known as the proprietor of the "Drudge Report" website, which attracted national attention when it was the first to break the news of a sexual relationship between a White House intern and President Bill Clinton (the "Monica Lewinsky scandal") in 1998.
- George Washington
George Washington , August 15,1871 - August 26,1905, was the founder of the town of Centralia, Washington. He born in 1871, in Virginia. He was African-American, and he was rasied by a white couple named Mr. and Mrs. James C. Chochran. When George was young, the Chochrans moved west, first to Ohio, then to Missouri. George became a great rifleman. He taught himself how to read. George was given full rights as a citizen, after Mr. and Mrs.
- Craig Venter
J. Craig Venter (born John Craig Venter October 14, 1946, Salt Lake City) is an American biologist and businessman.
- Marian Wright Edelman
Marian Wright Edelman (born June 6, 1939, in Bennettsville, South Carolina) is an American activist for the rights of children. She is president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund. Edelman's thinking was influenced by her father, Arthur Wright, a Baptist preacher who taught that Christianity required service in this world, and by civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph. A graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School, …
- Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 - August 28, 1903) was a American landscape architect, famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including Central Park and Prospect Park in New York City. Other project include the country's oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways in Buffalo, New York, the country's oldest state park, the Niagara Reservation in Niagara Falls, New York, Mount Royal Park in Montreal, the Emerald Necklace in Boston, Massachusetts, …
- Julian Bond
Julian Bond, president of the NAACP: "He was a polarizing figure in black America. He was hostile to the generally accepted remedies for discrimination. His appointments were of people as equally hostile. I can't think of any Reagan policy that African Americans would embrace."
- Bruce Perens
Bruce Perens is a former Debian GNU/Linux Project Leader, the primary author of the Open Source Definition, a founder of Software in the Public Interest, founder and first project leader of the Linux Standard Base project, the initial author of BusyBox, a founder of the UserLinux project, and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Perens also has a book series with Prentice Hall PTR called the Bruce Perens' Open Source Series.
- Reed Hastings
Reed Hastings (Wilmot Reed Hastings, Jr.) is the founder of Netflix. He is currently Netflix's chief executive officer, president and chairman of the board, and was the founder of Pure Software. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Microsoft Corp. His father was a lawyer who once served in the Nixon administration, serving as general counsel in the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
- Vanessa Fox
Vanessa Fox (born 1972) is the founder and product manager of Google Webmaster Central, as of 2007, and is a well-known blogger and public speaker. At conferences and on the Google Webmaster Central blog, Fox offers advice to webmasters to help get their sites listed in Google, and to solve problems they may have with the way Google indexes their pages. On June 14, 2007, Fox announced she would be leaving Google to join Zillow, an online real estate service company.
- Leonard Slatkin
Leonard Slatkin (born September 1 1944) is an American conductor. His father was the violinist, conductor and founder of the Hollywood String Quartet, Felix Slatkin, and his mother was Eleanor Aller, the cellist with the quartet. His brother, Frederick Zlotkin, is a cellist. He studied at Indiana University and Los Angeles City College before attending the Juilliard School where he studied conducting under Jean Paul Morel. His conducting debut came in 1966, and in 1968, …
- Washington Sycip
Mr. SyCip was previously a member of the International Boards of AT&T Corp., United Technologies Corp., Caterpillar, Inc., Owens-Illinois, Australia & New Zealand Banking Group, Pacific Dunlop Limited, Australia, and LucasVarity Corporation, USA. He was a member of the International Advisory Board of Chase Manhattan Bank and an Advisor to Arthur Andersen.
- Michael McCarthy
Michael McCarthy is Director of Music at Washington National Cathedral. As director of music Michael oversees the Cathedral's expanding music program, as well as serves as principal choirmaster. He was the founder and director of the London [England] Oratory School Schola. Founded in 1996, the Schola quickly became one of London's premier boys concert choirs, performing regularly on the London concert platform and in the studio for both the recording and film industries.
- Allen Weinstein
Allen Weinstein is the Archivist of the United States. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on February 16, 2005.
- Curly Lambeau
Earl Louis "Curly" Lambeau (April 9, 1898 - June 1, 1965) was the founder, a player, and the first coach of the Green Bay Packers professional football team. Lambeau and George Whitney Calhoun formed the Packers in 1919 while Lambeau was working as a shipping clerk at the Indian Packing Company. The success of the team quickly led to it joining the National Football League in 1921. Lambeau coached the Packers as an NFL team from 1921 to 1949.
- Dal Lamagna
Dal LaMagna , founder and former CEO of Tweezerman Corporation, sold his company in 2004 and focused on working as a Citizen Diplomat dealing with Iraq and investing his resources in social change through film. Dal has been the Executive Producer of four movies dealing with the Iraq War: War Tapes, Iraq for Sale, The Ground Truth, and Meeting Resistance.
- Leroy Hood
Dr. Hood is recognized as one of the world's leading scientists in molecular biotechnology and genomics. A passionate and dedicated researcher, he holds numerous patents and awards for his work and prides himself on his life-long commitment to making science accessible to the general public. One of his foremost goals is to bring hands-on, inquiry-based science to K-12 classrooms.
- Daoud Kuttab
Daoud Kuttab is a Palestinian journalist. Born in Jerusalem in 1955, he has become one of the most prominent moderate voices among Palestinians. He is the director of the Institute of Modern Media at Al Quds University, and he is the founder and general director of AmmanNet, the Arab world's first internet radio station. He has been arrested by both Israelis and Palestinians and has won numerous international awards, including the CPJ International Press Freedom Awards, …
- J. Willard Marriott
John Willard Marriott (September 17, 1900 - August 13, 1985) was an American entrepreneur and businessman. He was the founder of the Marriott Corporation (which became Marriott International in 1993), the parent company of one of the world's largest hospitality, hotel chains and food services company. His company rose from a small root beer stand in Washington D.C. in 1927 to a chain of family restaurants by 1932, to his first motel in 1957.
- Frances Kissling
Frances Kissling (born 1943) was President of Catholics for a Free Choice from its founding in 1982 until her resignation in February 2007.
- Hugh Panero
Hugh joined NEA in 2008 and is focused on consumer technology opportunities. He co-founded XM Satellite Radio in 1998 and served as its Chief Executive Officer from until August 2007. During his tenure at XM, the company became America's number-one satellite radio service with more than 9.3 million subscribers and grew from a concept into one of the fastest-growing new technologies ever, outpacing the growth of wireless phones and cable television.
- Mortimer Zuckerman
Background: Mortimer B. Zuckerman is the chairman and editor-in-chief of U.S.News & World Report and a regular columnist for the magazine. He is also the publisher of the New York Daily News as well as the founder and chairman of Boston Properties Inc., one of the nation's largest real estate companies. He is a trustee of Memorial Sloan-Kettering, the Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc., and the Center for Communications.
- C. Fred Bergsten
C. Fred Bergsten, (born 1941), is an American economist, author, and political adviser. He has served as Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department and has been president of the Peterson Institute, formerly the "Institute for International Economics", since its foundation in 1981. Bergsten received his BA degree from Central Methodist University and MA, MALD, and Ph.D. degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
- Kevin Zeese
Kevin B. Zeese is President of Common Sense for Drug Policy . He is one of the nation's foremost authorities on drug policy issues. He has worked on a wide array of drug related issues ( Curriculum Vitae ) since he graduated from George Washington University Law School in 1980. He is the author of Drug Testing Legal Manual , Drug Testing Legal Manual and Practice Aids and co-author of Drug Law: Strategies and Tactics , all three published by Clark Boardman Callaghan .
- Helen Zia
Helen Zia (1952 -) is an American journalist and scholar who has covered Asian American communities and social and political movements for decades. She was born in New Jersey to first generation immigrants from Shanghai. She entered Princeton University in the early 1970s and was a member of its first graduating class of women. As a student, Zia was among the founders of the Asian American Students Association.
- Mark Scrimshire
Technology aware Management Consultant with over 25 years experience in multi-national environments. Recent experience has been in delivering programs in the Telecommunications Industry but experience also encompasses other industries that depend upon technology including: - Government; - Energy; - Financial Services; I specialize in rapid deployment of solutions to address business problems using Web 2.0 technologies and techniques. I am looking for project opportunities that will . . .
- Jason Sorens
Jason Sorens , President Free State Project, Inc.
- Bill Gates
"Swiftwater" Bill Gates was an American frontiersman and fortune hunter, and a fixture in stories of the Klondike Gold Rush. He made and lost several fortunes, and died in Seattle in 1935. Despite the similarity in name and geography, there is no apparent family relationship between "Swiftwater Bill" and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
- Madeleine Korbel Albright
Madeleine Albright (1937 - ) was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. As the Nazis invaded that country before World War II, Albright and her family fled and eventually settled in the U.S. She graduated from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, and she later received master's and doctorate degrees from Columbia University in New York. By the late 1970s, she was working in the White House for President Jimmy Carter 's national security team.
- Ted Halstead
Ted Halstead is founding President and CEO of the New America Foundation, a public policy institute whose purpose is to bring new voices and new ideas to the fore of America’s public discourse.
- Albert Rosellini
Albert Dean Rosellini (born January 21, 1910) is a lawyer from the U.S. state of Washington. Rosellini is a member of the Democratic Party and served in the Washington Legislature before his term as Governor (1957-1965). Rosellini is currently the oldest living former Governor in the United States, and was the first Italian American Catholic governor elected west of the Mississippi River. He was nicknamed "Taxellini" by his detractors and "The Gov." by his supporters.
- Randall Dodd
Randall Dodd is the founder and director for Financial Policy Forum in Washington, DC, a non-profit organization that deals with regulation of financial markets. He received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Columbia, where he specialized in international trade and finance. He has taught at both Columbia and Johns Hopkins Universities. He was also legislative director for congressman Joe Kennedy.
- Michael Crick
Michael Crick (born may 21 1958) is a British journalist, author and broadcaster. Born in Northampton, he was educated at Manchester Grammar School and New College, Oxford, where he got a first class degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE). At Oxford he was editor of the university newspaper, "Cherwell", founded the Oxford Handbook and the Oxbridge Careers Handbook, and was president of the Oxford Union.
- Eric Schneiderman
Eric T. Schneiderman grew up on Manhattan's Upper West Side where he attended Trinity School. After earning a B.A. in English and Asian Studies at Amherst College, Eric served for two years as a Deputy Sheriff in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where he started the first comprehensive drug and alcohol treatment program at the Berkshire House of Corrections.
- Karen Kornbluh
Karen Kornbluh (b. 1963) is an American economist, former United States Treasury Department official, and expert on communications policy, international trade and issues affecting working families. She is currently policy director for U.S. Senator Barack Obama. Obama's decision to hire her in 2002 was seen as a sign of his determination to build an unusually strong staff for a freshman Senator.
- Malcolm Lawrence
I'm the founder/CEO and Editor-In-Chief of towerofbabel.com.