- Timothy Well
Timothy Well was a professional wrestler that was also known as Rex King. He wrestled in WWF and WCW as a jobber for the most part. He teamed with Steven Dunn throughout his career. While in WWF, they were known as Well Dunn and feuded with The Bushwhackers in 1994. He was forced to retire in 2002, after suffering a major injury while in Puerto Rico. - Scott Rosenberg
Scott Rosenberg is an American journalist, editor, blogger and non-fiction author. He was a co-founder of Salon Media Group and Salon.com and a relatively early participant in The WELL. "Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software" :(2007) Random House ISBN 978-1-4000-8246-9, about collaboration and massive software endeavors, particularly the Open-Source calendar application Chandler (PIM), … - Stewart Brand
Stewart Brand (born December 14, 1938 in Rockford, Illinois) is an author, editor, and creator of "The Whole Earth Catalog" and "CoEvolution Quarterly". His intent with the "Whole Earth Catalog" was to enable people to find virtually any sort of information useful to themselves, in the belief that humans would then develop a new, positive and sustainable culture and technology for themselves; in this way, his ideas were forerunners of the Internet. - Jon Lebkowsky
Jon Lebkowsky is a social media expert and strategist, cultural strategist, and social commentator. A web strategy consultant, he also writes about culture, technology, media, sustainability and other topics for various publications, has been blogging regularly since blogs first appeared, and has been involved in various aspects of web production since 1992. - Larry Brilliant
Dr. Lawrence (Larry) Brilliant is a medical doctor, epidemiologist, technologist, author and philanthropist. Born in Detroit, Michigan (May 5, 1944), he received his undergraduate training as well as his MPH (Masters in Public Health) from the University of Michigan and his M.D. from Wayne State University. He moved to California for his internship at the Pacific Medical Center, and developed thyroid cancer from which he recovered. - Gail Williams
Gail Ann Williams (born in Berkeley, California) has been the director of The WELL since 1998. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in the 1970s and got involved in political theater as both a creative and management member of the Plutonium Players troupe. She was a principal in their long-touring satirical show spoofing anti-feminist politics, "Ladies Against Women", throughout the years of the Ronald Reagan presidency. - Tom Mandel
Tom Mandel (1946-April 6, 1995) was born in Chicago, Illinois He served in the United States Marine Corps in the Vietnam War. In 1972, he was the first graduate of the futures program at the University of Hawaii. He then attended San Jose State College. He was then hired as a futurist by the Stanford Research Institute, ("SRI"). In addition to his work at SRI, Mandel was an editor of Time Online and an early active participant in The Well, an influential online community. - Peter Ludlow
Peter Ludlow (January 16, 1957), who also writes under the name Urizenus Sklar, is a professor of philosophy and linguistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Before moving to Michigan, Ludlow taught for several years at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and was Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University and Cornell University. His research areas include the conceptual issues in cyberspace, … - Davey Winder
Davey Winder, previously known as "Wavey Davey" or "dwindera" but now settled as "happygeek", is a United Kingdom IT pundit who has worked as a consultant, writer and journalist. He is the 'IT Security Journalist of the Year (UK) 2006', and ten years ago he won the Technology Journalist of the Year award. One of the original contributing editors of .net magazine, he is now contributing editor of PC Pro as well as a contributor to IT Pro, Information World Review, … - David Perry
David Perry is the Global Director of Education for Trend Micro, a computer antivirus software company. He represents Trend Micro at industry, government, customer and reseller events worldwide. He is a leading authority on computer - Jessica McClure
Jessica Morales née McClure, became famous at the age of 18 months after falling into a Midland, Texas well on October 14, 1987. Rescuers worked for 58 hours to free "Baby Jessica" from an 8-inch-wide pipe. The story gained worldwide attention (leading to some criticism as a media circus), and later became the subject of a 1989 ABC TV movie, "Everybody's Baby: The Rescue of Jessica McClure", starring Patty Duke and Beau Bridges. - John Gromada
John Gromada (b.1964) is a prolific, award-winning composer and sound designer. He is best known for his many scores for theatrical productions in New York on and off-Broadway and in regional theatres. Broadway plays he has scored include David Auburn's "Proof", Lisa Kron's "Well", "Rabbit Hole", and "A Few Good Men" ; revivals of "Prelude to a Kiss", "Summer and Smoke", … - Fred Graver
Fred Graver is an American writer. He wrote a Choose Your Own Adventure book, number 35, "Journey to Stonehenge". Fred began his career in the early 80s at the National Lampoon. He left the Lampoon in 1984 to join "Late Night with David Letterman", where he worked as a writer until 1990. While at Letterman, he and friend Kevin Curran wrote several unproduced screenplays -- mostly for the fun of being flown out to L.A., living in great hotels, … - Eljay
Eljay, (born Luke J. Adams on June 7, 1988), is an up-and-coming rapper from Peoria, Illinois. He is best known for his light-hearted rap that often satirizes the excesses and exaggerations in modern rap/hip-hop. For example, in his song "I Been Shot," he claims to have been shot no fewer than eighty times without requiring medical attention, … - Henri Poole
Henri Poole is a political campaign technologist and founder/director of CivicActions, co-founder of the AdvoKit project, serves on the Board of the Free Software Foundation and Affero, Inc. (In 2002, Affero published the Affero General Public License (AGPL) which is the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) with a web services provision added. The new provision was written by Eben Moglen.) As co-founder and CEO of Vivid Studios in 1993, … - John Schorne
Sir John Schorne (died 1313) was rector of North Marston in the English county of Buckinghamshire. He was a very pious man and was said to have effected many miraculous cures for gout and toothache. During a drought, he discovered a well, the waters of which were reputed to have miraculous properties. His reputation for holiness was such that he is believed to have cast the devil into a boot. He is often pictured holding a boot with a devil in it, … - Saint Pyr
Pyr was a Welsh abbot of the 6th century who may later have been revered as a saint. He has been described as being "an unsuitable abbot and...one of those Celtic 'saints' who would never have been canonized by any formal process" (Farmer, 409). Little is known about him apart from the fact that he was titular of Caldey Island, which is known in Welsh as Ynys Byr. Pyr is said to have become so drunk one night that on the way back to his cell he fell into a well. - Jack Benny
Jack Benny (February 14 1894 in Chicago, Illinois - December 26 1974 in Beverly Hills, California), born Benjamin Kubelsky, was an American comedian, vaudeville performer, and radio, television, and film actor. He was one of the biggest stars in classic American radio and was also a major television personality. Benny was renowned for his flawless comic timing and (especially) his ability to get laughs with either a pregnant pause or a single expression, … - Cosmos Rossellius
Cosmos Rossellius (died 1578) was a florentine Dominican monk whoe wrote a book about memory. "Theasurus artificosae memoria" was published in Venice in 1579. He gives a dantesque description of hell as a memory space system arranged around a well at the top of a flight of steps comprised of the punishments for heretics, Jews, idolators and hypocrites. In contrast heaven is depicted as the throne of Christ, sorrounded by a celestial hierarchy of Apostles, … - Reuben C. Baker
Reuben C. Baker established Baker International in 1907 after developing a casing shoe that revolutionized cable tool drilling. In 1903, he introduced the offset bit for cable tool drilling to enable casing wells in hard rock and in 1912 the cement retainer that allowed casing to be cemented in the wells. Baker further improved the process with the float shoe in 1923. - Saint Peris
Saint Peris was a little-known Welsh saint of the early Christian period, possibly 6th century. He is referred to in the Bonedd y Saint as a 'Cardinal of Rome'. However, he may have been one of the many children of Helig ap Glannog of Tyno Helig. He is believed to have retired to the solitude of Nant Peris in North Wales, and the church in the village is dedicated to him. Some sources refer to his servant as being Saint Cian. - Robert Ducat
Robert Ducat (born 1969) is a Christian music artist. He has released several albums: David's Struggle (album), Have Mercy, Well, and Shelter. He currently is the director of music at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Lake Mary, Florida.<br - Graham Webb
Born in Birmingham, UK, to L. Webb a battle of El Alamein war widow, I was the youngest of 5 children. Started cycling at the age of 8 and was many times British National cycling champion and National record holder at 10 miles, 25 miles and 1 hour. Moved to the Netherlands in 1967 where I became world cycling road champion, signed a professional contract with the French Mercier team in 1968 and moved to Belgium, where I still live with my family. http://crazyaboutbelgium.co.uk/blogs/webb.htm - Golan Ramras
Was President of the Borrowed Time Films production company Served in the Israeli Army between the ages of 18 to 21 Co-Founder of the Phoenix Film Festival Graduated one year early from Central High school in Phoenix, Arizona. - Diana Ross
Diana Ross (born Diane Ernestine Earle Ross on March 26, 1944) is an American singer and actress, whose musical repertoire spans R&B, soul, disco, jazz, and pop. Ross first gained prominence as lead of the successful girl group The Supremes, before establishing a successful solo career in 1970. During the 1970s and 1980s, Ross became one of the most successful female artists of the rock era, also crossing over into film, television and Broadway. - Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 - May 14, 1998) was an American jazz oriented popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor. Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid 1940s, being the idol of the 'bobby soxers'. His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1953 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. - Clay Aiken
Clay Aiken (born Clayton Holmes Grissom on November 30, 1978) is an American pop singer who began his rise to fame on the second season of the television program "American Idol" in 2003. After placing second, RCA Records offered him a recording contract, and his multi-platinum debut album "Measure of a Man" was released in October 2003. - Dick van Well
Dick van Well (born 1948 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch business man and currently chairman of Dutch football team Feyenoord Rotterdam. Van Well was chairman of the Dura Vermeer Group in Zoetermeer for many years. He is known to support Feyenoord since the 1960s, the time that the quality of Dutch football improved to their glorious years in the 1970s, including Feyenoord European Cup win in 1970. He also has his own business seat in the Feijenoord Stadion. - William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright now widely regarded as the greatest writer of the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. His surviving works include at least 38 plays, two long narrative poems and 154 sonnets, as well as a variety of other poems. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, and at 18 married Anne Hathaway, … - Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a prolific German composer and organist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity. - Steve Novick
Steve Novick is a Democratic Party candidate for the United States Senate in 2008 from the state of Oregon. He is an attorney and former US Department of Justice litigator who led the Love Canal case on behalf of the United States government. He is an advocate of progressive taxation and reforming the Internal Revenue Code to abolish the distinction between ordinary income (earned from labor) and capital gains income (earned from the exploitation of wealth). - Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford (March 23 1905 - May 10 1977), was an acclaimed, iconic, Academy Award-winning American actress, arguably one of the greatest from the Golden Age of Hollywood from the 1920s through 1940s. The American Film Institute named Crawford among the Greatest Female Stars of All Time, ranking her at number ten. Starting as a dancer, she was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in 1925 and played in small parts. - Roberto Clemente
Roberto Clemente Walker (August 18, 1934 - December 31, 1972) was a Major League Baseball right fielder and right-handed batter. He was elected to the Hall of Fame posthumously in 1973 as the first Hispanic American to be selected, and the only exception to the mandatory five-year post-retirement waiting period since it was instituted in 1954. Clemente was born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, the youngest of four children. He played 18 seasons in the majors from 1955 to 1972, … - Nicky Hayden
Nicholas "Nicky" Patrick Hayden, born in Owensboro, Kentucky, also known as The Kentucky Kid, is an American professional motorcycle racer and 2006 MotoGP World Champion. - Sam Edwards
Sam Edwards (born May 26, 1915 in Macon, Georgia; died July 28, 2004 in Durango, Colorado) was an American actor. His most famous role on TV was as the banker in the TV series "Little House on the Prairie". Born into a showbusiness family, his first role was as a baby in his mother's arms. He appeared on radio in the 1930s in the "Adventures of Sonny and Buddy" one of the first radio serials ever syndicated, and later in "The Edwards Family", … - John C. Lilly
John Cunningham Lilly (January 6, 1915 - September 30, 2001) was an American physician, psychoanalyst and writer. He was a pioneer researcher into the nature of consciousness using as his principal tools the isolation tank, dolphin communication and psychedelic drugs, sometimes in combination. He was a prominent member of the Californian counterculture of scientists, mystics and thinkers that arose in the late 1960s and early 70s. - Patricia Russo
Patricia Russo (born in 1953, in Trenton, New Jersey) is the current chief executive officer of Alcatel-Lucent, one of the world's largest manufacturing firms. Lucent was a spin-off from AT&T of its Systems and Technology units (AT&T Technologies, Inc., the former Western Electric), and the manufacturing and research and development operations, including Bell Laboratories. - Tamara Rojo
Tamara Rojo (born in 1974) is a Spanish prima ballerina. Tamara was born in Montreal, Canada to Spanish parents who moved back to Spain when she was four months old. She started dancing at 10 years of age in Victor Ullate Dance Centre in Madrid (1983-1991), and completed her training under David Howard and Renatto Paroni. Tamara continued to work with the Ullate Company from 1991 to 1996. At 20 years of age she was offered a contract with the Scottish Ballet, … - Adin Steinsaltz
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz (Hebrew: עדין שטיינזלץ) or Adin Even Yisrael (born 1937) is most commonly known for his popular commentary and translation of both Talmuds into Hebrew, French, Russian and Spanish. In 1988, he was awarded the Israel Prize, Israel's highest honor. Steinsaltz is a noted scholar, philosopher, social critic and author world wide whose background also includes extensive scientific training. - Heather Armstrong
Heather B. Armstrong born July 19 1975, is an American blogger who resides in Salt Lake City, Utah. She writes under the pseudonym of Dooce. Armstrong explains that "Dooce" came from her inability to quickly spell "dude" during IM chats with her former co-workers. Armstrong was raised a Mormon in Tennessee, and majored in English at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, graduating in 1997. She then moved to Los Angeles, California to work.
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