- Lester Wire
Lester Farnsworth Wire, (September 3, 1887-April 14, 1958) is credited with the invention of the traffic light as early as 1912 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
- Coy Wire
Coy Wire (born November 7, 1978 in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania) is an American football safety who plays for the Buffalo Bills. He played high school football for Cedar Cliff High School. After his NCAA career with Stanford, Coy was drafted by the Bills in the 3rd round of the 2002 NFL Draft. Although he played multiple positions in college--running back and outside linebacker--the Bills converted Wire to strong safety. At 6'1, 217 lb., he doesn't have ideal linebacker size, …
- Nicky Wire
Nicky Wire (real name: Nicholas Allen Jones) is the lyricist, bass guitar player and occasional vocalist with the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers.
- Bruce Gilbert
Bruce Gilbert (born Bruce Clifford Gilbert, 18 May 1946, Watford, Hertfordshire) is an English musician, one of the founding members of the influential and experimental art-punk band Wire, and a pioneer in experimental noise scene.
- Graham Lewis
Edward Graham Lewis (born 22 February 1953 in Grantham, Lincolnshire) is an English musician. Lewis is the bassist of the punk band Wire, which began in 1976. Lewis has been involved in many side projects, including Dome (with fellow Wire member B.C. Gilbert), Duet Emmo, P'o, Kluba Cupol, Ocsid, He Said Omala, and others. His solo projects have included He Said and Hox. Lewis is currently residing in Uppsala, Sweden.
- Peter Schmidt
Peter Schmidt was an artist and teacher in England. He was born in 1931 and died while on holiday in Tenerife, Spain of a heart attack in 1980. He was part of a generation of art school teachers in the 1960s and 1970s that had great impact on some students who later went on to work in music. He worked with Hansjörg Mayer, and may have had associations with Mark Boyle and Tom Phillips.
- Robin Rimbaud
Robin Rimbaud (born Robin Aspel in 1964 in Southfields, London) is an electronic musician who works under the name Scanner due to his use of cell phone and police scanners in live performance. He is also a member of the band Githead with Wire's Colin Newman and Malka Spigel and Max Franken from Minimal Compact.
- Tina Weymouth
Tina Weymouth is a founding member of the influential New Wave group Talking Heads. She is of French heritage on her mother's side. A bassist, she combined the minimalist art-punk basslines of groups such as Wire and Pere Ubu with danceable, disco inflected riffs to provide the bedrock of Talking Heads signature sound. Her sound is often very funky in feel, combining low fundamental notes with higher flourishes in clipped, staccato rhythms.
- Hua Hsu
Hua Hsu (b. 1977) is an American music critic based in New York City. He is a frequent contributor to Slate, Blender and the Boston Globe Ideas section, as well as a former contributing editor to URB magazine and a columnist at The Wire. He maintains a blog, to here knows when
- Marc Seguin
Marc Seguin was a French engineer, inventor of the wire-cable suspension bridge and the tubular steam-engine boiler. Born Annonay near Lyon, France to Marc François Seguin, founder of Seguin & Co. and Thérèse-Augustine de Montgolfier niece of Joseph Montgolfier, he was an inventor and entrepreneur. He developed the first suspension bridge in continental Europe, building and administering toll-bridges for a total of 186 bridges throughout France.
- Richard Lippold
Richard Lippold (3 May 1915-22 August 2002) was an American sculptor, known for his geometric constructions using wire as a medium. Lippold was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and worked as an industrial designer from 1937 to 1941. After he became a sculptor, Lippold found himself on several university faculties, including that of Hunter College at the City University of New York, from 1952 to 1967.
- Tom Ellard
Thomas (Tom) Ellard (born 1962), is an Australian electronic musician most well known as the founding member of the electronic and industrial music group Severed Heads. Ellard's first music contributions began in the late 1970s as a teenager, he was influenced by groups that emerged from the early United Kingdom and Australian punk movement, such as Throbbing Gristle, SPK, Wire and other like artists. Predating music technology such as MIDI and personal computers, …
- Alan Whiting
Alan Whiting is a British screenwriter who has written for "Heartbeat", "Wire in the Blood", "Steel River Blues" and "Kingdom" (which he also co-created). "The Darkness of Light", one of his "Wire" episodes, was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Television Feature Or Mini-Series Teleplay in 2005.. He is currently adapting "Half Broken Things" for Festival Films.
- Zdzisław Beksiński
Zdzisław Beksiński was a renowned Polish painter, photographer, and fantasy artist. He was born in the town of Sanok, in southern Poland. After studying architecture in Kraków, he returned to Sanok in 1955. Subsequent to this education, he spent several years as a construction site supervisor, which he hated. At that time, he became interested in artistic photography and photomontage, sculpture and painting. He made his sculptures of plaster, metal and wire.
- Samuel Hunter Christie
Samuel Hunter Christie (March 22, 1784-January 24, 1865) was a British scientist and mathematician. The son of James Christie, founder of the Christie's auction house, he studied mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was particularly interested in magnetism, studying the earth's magnetic field and designing improvements to the magnetic compass. Some of his magnetic research was done in collaboration with Peter Barlow. He became a fellow of the Royal Society in 1826, …
- Moritz von Jacobi
Moritz Hermann (Boris Semyonovich) von Jacobi (September 21, 1801 - March 10, 1874) was a Prussian engineer and physicist born in Potsdam. Jacobi worked mainly in Russia. He furthered progress in galvanoplastics, electric motors, and wire telegraphy.
- Louis Harper
Louis Harper was a civil engineer from the north-east of Scotland who designed a number of suspension footbridges towards the end of the 19th century. His father John Harper came from Turriff in Aberdeenshire, and worked as a fencer in Edinburgh and Glasgow before starting the family firm in Aberdeen in 1856, which became Harpers Ltd in 1885. John Harper patented a mechanism for straining wire, used both to make fences and later also for the cables of bridges.
- Carl Rickard Nyberg
Carl Rickard Nyberg was the founder of Max Sieverts Lödlampfabrik, then one of the largest industries in Sundbyberg, Sweden. Nyberg was born in Arboga. After school he started working for a jeweller and later he moved to Stockholm and worked with various metalworks. He later got work at "J. E. Eriksons mekaniska verkstad" (later renamed to "Mekanikus"). It was while working there that he formulated the idea of the blowtorch.
- Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin
Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Ph.D, LL.D. (4 October, 1854 - 12 March, 1935; Serbian Cyrillic: "Михајло Идворски Пупин"), also known as Michael I. Pupin, was a Serbian physicist and physical chemist. Pupin is best known for his landmark theory of modern electrical filters as well as for his numerous patents, …
- Charlie Brockman
Charles T. "Charlie" Brockman (1928-January 19, 2005) was an American broadcaster and was a former president of the United States Auto Club from 1969-1972. Brockman worked as a sportscaster on WXLW, WIRE and worked as sports director at WLWI (now WTHR) in Indianapolis, Indiana. From 1964-1970, he anchored the MCA closed-circuit television broadcasts of the Indianapolis 500. He worked on ABC's "Wide World of Sports", …
- Peter Kenen
Peter B. Kenen (b. November 30, 1932) is a Senior Fellow in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations and Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance at Princeton University. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1932, earned his B.A. from Columbia University and his Ph.D. from Harvard. He taught at Columbia from 1957 to 1971, where he served as Chairman of the Department of Economics and then Provost of the University.
- Anthony Sabuneti
Anthony Sabuneti (b. 1974) is a Zimbabwean sculptor. A native of Harare, Sabuneti was the last-born of six children; his mother was a potter, and he was greatly influenced by her work. He began his career at seven, making wire toys for sale to other children. These he displayed at the local Community Hall. He completed his O levels in Harare. Sabuneti and some friends formed the Gota Tochisuma Atelier in 1987; he still works with the group.
- Andy
Senior product manager for online communities at National Public Radio; former big cheese at the Digital Divide Network; itinerant correspondent for Rocketboom; video blogger; travel addict; new dad.
- Coy Wire
Coy Wire is a linebacker/safety in the National Football League . He most recently played for the AFC East, Buffalo Bills . Originally drafted by the Bills in the third round of the 2002 NFL Draft, Coy Wire has played three seasons with the team making a only one start during the 2007 season due to injury. Although he was signed to a three-year extension in 2006, Wire was released in February of 2008 after he failed to pass a team physical.
- Wes Jackson
Wes Jackson is president of The Land Institute, an innovative research and educational organization dedicated to the search for principles of ecological agriculture. By studying and mimicking the functions of natural systems, The Land Institute seeks to develop agricultural practices that are productive over the long term, economical, and ecologically responsible.
- Earnest Pettie
My middle name is Ray, meaning that my full name is made up of two very different adjectives: earnest and pettie And one noun. I am a twin. I am the boyfriend of Claire Aaronson and I sleep under the paw of Iris the Cat. I edit, produce, write for TV, movies, you name it.
- Jason Overbeck
Bent Clouds.
- Todd Ulman
I LAUGH AT MY OWN JOKES. IF THAT DOESN'T ANNOY YOU, YOU'LL PROBABLY FIND ME FUNNY.
- Michael Druxman
Former son-in-law of writer Ray Singer. Son of Harry Druxman, and nephew of Nate Druxman, both pioneer Pacific Northwest boxing promoters of the early 1900s. Close friend of Dan O'Herlihy. From 1966-1996, owned and operated Michael B. Druxman & Associates, an entertainment public relations firm. Father of musician/composer, David Druxman. The audience for the movie "Half a House" (1979) was so small that song writers Paul Francis Webster and Sammy Fain hired Druxman, who was then a...
- Denise Tunnell
Graduated from North Carolina State University in 1990
- Brad Engleking
My wife and I voluteer with the Austin Dog Rescue and foster pets that need homes. I'm very into my career and tend to work a lot more than is healthy. Over the last few years I've wondered what has happened to so many of my friends and I hope to meet up with them and find out what has transpired over the years.
- Blake Cauthen
I like movies.
- Mark Goldstein
After a career in engineering and engineering management, I've served as a researcher and consultant to emerging and growing technology companies since 1992. Can my firm, International Research Center, help your organization with market intelligence, strategic planning, and in achieving successful outcomes? Please contact me at markg@researchedge.com, call (602) 470-0389 &/or visit IRC's website at http://www.researchedge.com/.
- Adam Pray
- Pamela Anderson
Pamela Denise Anderson is a Canadian-born American actress, sex symbol, glamour model, producer, TV personality, and author. For a time, she was known as Pamela Anderson Lee after marrying the drummer for Mötley Crüe, Tommy Lee. Anderson is popularly known for modeling and television acting in the 1990s and for her large breast implants.
- Felicia Pearson
Felicia 'Snoop' Pearson (also known as Snoop From The Wire) born on May 18, 1980 in Baltimore, Maryland is an African American actress and rapper, known for her role on the HBO series "The Wire" as a character named after herself.
- Dominic West
Dominic West (born October 15, 1969) is an English actor.
- 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", …
- Robert F. Colesberry
Robert F. Colesberry (1946 - February 9 , 2004) was an American film and television producer and first assistant director notable for his work as a producer on the Emmy Award winning miniseries "The Corner" and Peabody Award winning "The Wire" for HBO. Colesberry had a recurring cameo on "The Wire" as detective Ray Cole. Colesberry died from complicatons following cardiac surgery in 2004.
- Christopher Willits
Christopher Willits is a musician and multimedia artist located in San Francisco. His musical focus is characterized by guitar with computer software processing and improvisation, which generates a large palette of possible sounds including; melodic rhythms, grainy textures, and smooth drones. Willits' music is electroacoustic in nature, in that both analogue and digital worlds are fused into one.