- 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, … - Phil Western
Phil Western (b. August 12, 1971) is a Vancouver-based musician who is a founding member of the bands Download, PlatEAU, Frozen Rabbit, and Off And Gone. Having started his career as a drummer and eventually as a programmer, he became a sought after remix engineer starting in the mid 90's. His friendship with Dwayne Goettel led to his doing a small amount of keyboard work on the Skinny Puppy album The Process, … - John Western
John Stuart Western (born 1931) is an Australian academic and author. Western is currently Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Queensland. He specializes in the sociology of mass communication. He has also served as a Commissioner on the Queensland Criminal Justice Commission from 1990 until 1994. - Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson was a Western film actor of the early 1940s. - John Ford
John Ford was an American film director famous for both his westerns such as "Stagecoach" and "The Searchers" and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as "The Grapes of Wrath". His win of four Best Director Academy Awards (1935, 1940, 1941, 1952) is a record till today unmatched, although only one of those films, "How Green Was My Valley", won Best Picture. His style of film-making has been tremendously influential, … - John Carroll
John Carroll (17 July 1906 - 24 April 1979) was an American actor and singer. He was born Julian LaFaye in New Orleans, Louisiana. Carroll performed in several small roles in films under his original name until 1935, when he first used the name John Carroll in "Hi, Gaucho!". He appeared in several Western films in the 1930s, including the role of Zorro in "Zorro Rides Again" in 1937. - Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone (born November 10, 1928; sometimes also credited as "Dan Savio" or "Leo Nichols") is an Italian composer especially noted for his film scores. He has composed and arranged scores for more than 400 film and television productions, more than any other composer living or deceased. He is best known for the characteristic sparse and memorable soundtracks of Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns "A Fistful of Dollars" (1964), … - George Soros
George Soros (born August 12, 1930, in Budapest, Hungary, as György Schwartz) is an American financial speculator, stock investor, philanthropist, and political activist. He peacefully promotes democracy in Eastern Europe. Currently, he is the chairman of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Institute and is also a former member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations. His support for the Solidarity labor movement in Poland, … - John Anderson
John Anderson (October 20, 1922 - August 7, 1992) was an American actor and director born in Clayton, Illinois. He was known for several roles, including his recurring role in "MacGyver" as Harry Jackson, the title character's grandfather. Earlier work included appearances on many Western series, including several episodes of "Gunsmoke" in various roles, and "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp" as Virgil Earp. - Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson was an American actor of "tough guy" roles. In most of his roles he starred as a brutal police detective, a western gunfighter, vigilante, boxer or a Mafia hitman. - Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy, born Charles McCarthy (born July 20, 1933) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist who has authored ten novels in the Southern Gothic, western, and post-apocalyptic genres. He has also written plays and screenplays. Literary critic Harold Bloom has named him as one of the four major American novelists of his time, along with Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Philip Roth. - Sam Peckinpah
David Samuel "Sam" Peckinpah (February 21, 1925 - December 28, 1984) was an American film director. He became one of the major filmmakers of the 1970s through his innovative and explicit depiction of action and violence, as well as his revisionist approach to the Western genre. Peckinpah's films generally dealt with the conflict between values and ideals, and the corruption and violence of human society. - John Russell
John Russell was an American actor most noted for playing Marshal Dan Troop in the western television series "Lawman" from 1958 to 1962. Born John Lawrence Russell in Los Angeles, California, he fit the Hollywood image of tall, dark, and handsome. He attended the University of California as a student athlete. Following the outbreak of World War II, he joined the United States Marines, received a battlefield commission as lieutenant at Guadacanal, … - Ben Johnson
Ben Johnson Jr. was an American motion picture actor, mainly in Westerns. He was also a rodeo cowboy, stuntman, and rancher. Born in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, of Osage and Irish ancestry to Ben Sr. and Ollie (Workman) Johnson. Ben Johnson Sr. was a rancher in Osage County and also a rodeo champion. As a young man, Ben Johnson Jr. was a ranch hand, would travel with his father on the rodeo circuit, and become a star before becoming involved in the movies. - Peter Fonda
Peter Henry Fonda (born February 23, 1940) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor. More than any other actor, Fonda is associated with Western counterculture of the 1960s. - Lee van Cleef
Lee Van Cleef (January 9 1925 - December 16 1989) was an American film actor, who appeared mostly in Western and action pictures. His sharp features and piercing eyes made him an ideal "bad guy," though he was occasionally cast in a hero's role, such as a bounty hunter in "For a Few Dollars More". - James Garner
James Garner (born April 7, 1928) is an American film and television actor. He has starred in several television series spanning a career of more than five decades, including his roles as Bret Maverick in the popular 1950s western-comedy series, "Maverick", Jim Rockford in the popular 1970s detective drama, "The Rockford Files" and the father of Katey Sagal's character on "8 Simple Rules" following the death of John Ritter. - John Chrysostom
John Chrysostom (349- ca. 407,, "Ioannes Chrysostomos") was the archbishop of Constantinople. He is known for his eloquence in preaching and public speaking, his denunciation of abuse of authority by both ecclesiastical and political leaders, the "Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom", and his ascetic sensibilities. After his death he was given the Greek surname "chrysostomos", "golden mouthed", rendered in English as Chrysostom. - Elmore Leonard
Elmore John Leonard Jr. (born October 11, 1925, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is a popular American novelist and screenwriter. - Anthony Mann
Anthony Mann (June 30, 1906 - April 29, 1967), was an American actor and film director. Born Emil Anton Bundmann in the Point Loma area of San Diego, he started out as an actor, appearing in plays off-Broadway in New York City. In 1938, he moved to Hollywood, where he joined the Selznick Company. He became an assistant director in 1942, directing low-budget assignments for RKO and Republic Films. - Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
General (ret.) Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (born September 9, 1949 in Pacitan, East Java, Indonesia), is an Indonesian retired military general and statesman as well as the sixth President of Indonesia. Yudhoyono won the presidency in September 2004 in the second round of the Indonesian presidential election, in which he defeated incumbent President Megawati Sukarnoputri. He was sworn into office on 20 October 2004, together with Jusuf Kalla as Vice President. - Walter Hill
Walter Hill (born January 10, 1942 in California) is an American film director, who is known in particular for his revival of the Western. - Salam Fayyad
Dr. Salam Fayyad (b. 1952) is a Palestinian politician, who, on June 15, 2007, was appointed the Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority. His appointment, justified by President Mahmoud Abbas on the basis of "national emergency", was not confirmed by the Palestinian Legislative Council. Until that date, Fayyad had been the Finance Minister of the Palestinian National Authority in the Fatah interim government from 2002. - Robert Wise
Robert Wise (September 10, 1914 - September 14, 2005) was an American sound effects editor, film editor, and Academy Award-winning American film producer and director. Among his many famous films are "The Sand Pebbles", "The Sound of Music", "West Side Story", "The Hindenburg", "Star Trek: The Motion Picture", "The Day the Earth Stood Still", "Run Silent, Run Deep", "The Andromeda Strain", "The Set-Up", … - Raoul Walsh
Raoul Walsh (born March 11, 1887 in New York City, died December 31, 1980 in Simi Valley) was an American film director, actor, founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ("AMPAS") and the brother of silent screen actor George Walsh. Walsh began his entertainment career as a stage actor in New York City, quickly progressing into film acting. - Michael Hart
Sir Michael Christopher Campbell Hart (7 May 1948 - 20 February 2007) was a British High Court judge in the Chancery Division. Hart was born in London. He was educated at Winchester College, where he was cox of the rowing eight, and read law at Magdalen College, Oxford. He graduated with a first-class degree in 1966, and then studied for the Bachelor of Civil Law. He took a second first, winning the Vinerian Prize and Scholarship for the best exam performance. - John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 - May 24, 1959) served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism around the world. He advocated support of the French in their war against the Viet Minh in Indochina and famously refused to shake the hand of Zhou Enlai at the Geneva Conference in 1954. - Mark Ruffalo
Mark Alan Ruffalo (born November 22, 1967) is a critically acclaimed American actor. - Jay Chou
Jay Chou , born 18 January 1979, is a World Music Award-winning Taiwanese musician, singer, and producer. In 1998, he was discovered in a talent contest where he showcased his piano and song-writing skills. Over the next two years, he was hired to compose for popular Chinese singers. Trained in classical music, he combines Chinese and Western music styles to produce songs that fuse R&B, rock, and pop genres, covering issues such as domestic violence, war, and urbanization. - Alan Ladd
Alan Walbridge Ladd was an American film actor. He was famous for his emotionless demeanor and small stature (reports of his height vary from 5'2" to 5'9", with 5'5" being the most generally accepted today). In the majority of his films he played either the hero or a bad guy with a conscience. - Robert E. Howard
Robert Ervin Howard (January 22 1906 - June 11 1936) was a classic American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. - Slim Pickens
Louis Burton Lindley, Jr., better known by the stage name Slim Pickens, was a cowboy and actor. Pickens, who epitomized the profane, tough, sardonic cowboy, was born in Kingsburg, California. He was an excellent rider from age four and quit school to join the rodeo at age twelve. He was told that working in the rodeo would be "slim pickings" (very little money), giving him his name, but he did very well, … - Theodosius I
Flavius Theodosius, also called Theodosius I and Theodosius the Great, was Roman Emperor from 379-395. Reuniting the eastern and western portions of the empire, Theodosius was the last emperor of both the Eastern and Western Roman Empire. After his death, the two parts split permanently. He is also known for making Christianity the official state religion of the Roman Empire. - Arthur Penn
Arthur Hiller Penn is a film director and producer. Although best known as the director of the iconic "Bonnie and Clyde" (1967) Arthur Penn amassed an impressive, critically acclaimed body of work though the 60’s and 70’s, often focussing with unerring accuracy on themes relevant to the times. After making a name for himself as a director of quality television dramas, Penn made his feature debut with a Western, "The Left Handed Gun" (1958). - 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. - Lorne Greene
Lorne Hyman Greene O.C., LL.D. (February 12, 1915 - September 11, 1987) was a Canadian actor, best known in the United States for his roles on two American television programs: the long-running western "Bonanza" and the shorter-lived cult classic science fiction program "Battlestar Galactica". - Sterling Hayden
Sterling Hayden was an American actor and author. For most of his career as a leading man, he specialized in westerns and "film noir". He is most noted for his appearance as Gen. Jack D. Ripper in "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (1964). He also played the Irish policeman, Captain McCluskey, in Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather" in 1972. - Roger Scruton
Roger Vernon Scruton (born 27 February 1944) is a British philosopher. He is (or has been) an academic, editor, publisher, barrister, journalist, broadcaster, countryside campaigner, novelist, and composer. A persistent theme is his work is his attempt to comprehend and defend the achievements of Western High Culture. In his political philosophy he seeks to articulate and defend conservatism. - Peter Marshall
Peter Marshall (born Ralph Pierre LaCock, March 30, circa 1927, Huntington, West Virginia) is an actor, singer and television personality. Although he has almost fifty television, movie, and Broadway credits, he is best known as the original host and "The Master" of "The Hollywood Squares" from 1966 to 1981. His stage name, Marshall, came from the name of the college in his home town (Marshall College became Marshall University in 1961). - Freeman Dyson
Freeman John Dyson FRS (born December 15, 1923) is an English-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum mechanics, solid-state physics, nuclear weapons design and policy, and for his serious theorizing in futurism and science fiction concepts, including the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. He is a lifelong opponent of nationalism, and proponent of nuclear disarmament and international cooperation.
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