- 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, …
- Barry Word
Barry Word (born July 17, 1964 in Long Island, Virginia) is a former American football running back for the NFL.
- Thomas J. Word
Thomas Jefferson Word (birth and death dates unknown) was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi. Born in Surry County, North Carolina, Word served as member of the State house of commons in 1832. He moved to Mississippi and settled in Pontotoc, Pontotoc County. Contested the election of Samuel J. Gholson to the Twenty-fifth Congress, and the election was set aside by the House. Word was subsequently elected as a Whig to fill the vacancy caused by this action (May 30, …
- Herodotus
Herodotus of Halicarnassus (Greek: "Hērodotos Halikarnāsseus") was a Greek historian from Ionia who lived in the 5th century BC (484 BC-ca. 425 BC) and is regarded as the "Father of History". He is almost exclusively known for writing "The Histories", …
- David Hepworth
David Hepworth (born 27 July 1950 in Dewsbury, Yorkshire) is a journalist and music writer responsible for the launch of many British magazines. He attended the Queen Elizabeth School, Wakefield and Trent Park College of Education, Barnet. He then worked in record shops and for a record company, before becoming a freelance journalist. After working at the music magazines "NME" and "Sounds", he joined the newly-launched "Smash Hits" magazine in 1979, …
- Caitlin Moran
Caitlin Moran (b. 5 April 1975) is a British broadcaster and columnist for "The Times". She is TV critic and current affairs columnist at "The Times". She also writes for "ELLE" magazine, "WORD" magazine, "Period Living", "Times Educational Supplement", "Radio Times" and "The Sunday Times Magazine". She began her career as a journalist on "Melody Maker", the weekly music publication, at the age of 16.
- Kathie Hill
Kathy Hill is an American songwriter best known for her contribution to gospel music in the genre of children's music and works. Born in the chacra,perubian hills. Kathie Hill went on to receive a BA in Musical Theatre, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Long before becoming a prolific children's writer and producer, Kathie Hill was working weekly with kid's choirs…and still is thirty years later.
- Peter Bowler
Peter Bowler is an Australian lexicographer and author of "The Superior Person's Book of Words", "The Superior Person's Second Book of Weird and Wondrous Words", and "The Superior Person's Third Book of Well-Bred Words". He specializes in esoteric, arcane, archaic, and otherwise unusual words, which he has catalogued humorously in his three books, along with "real-life" situations in which such words might come in handy.
- Peter Adair
Peter Adair was a filmmaker and artist, best known for his pioneering documentary, "Word Is Out". He was born in Los Angeles County on 22 November, 1943. Adair entered the film industry in the 1960s and first gained critical attention with his 1967 documentary "Holy Ghost People", a film record of a Pentecostal snake handler worship service in the Appalachians.
- André Martinet
André Martinet was a French linguist, influential by his work on structural linguistics. His wife, Jeanne Martinet, is a recognized semiotician. Martinet agregated in English and received his doctorate after submitting, as is traditional in France, two theses: "La Gémination consonantique d'origine expressive dans les langues germaniques" and "La Phonologie du mot en danois".
- Neil Konzen
Neil Konzen was one of Microsoft's earliest employees. He was head of Microsoft's Macintosh programs projects, including MultiPlan and Word for the Mac in 1984. He was later tasked with leading the team that created the second version of Windows at Microsoft, after the failure of the original version. Konzen is also known for creating, with Bill Gates, the infamous DONKEY.BAS game for the IBM PC
- Samian Sibyl
The Samian Sibyl was the priestess presiding over the Apollonian oracle near Hera's temple on the Isle of Samos, a Greek colony. The word Sibyl comes (via Latin) from the ancient Greek word "sibylla", meaning prophetess. There were many Sibyls in the ancient world but she is the one who prophesied the Birth of Jesus in the stable. The Samian Sibyl, by name Phemonoe, or Phyto of whom Eratosthenes wrote.
- Rob Word
With more than twenty-five years of experience in the entertainment business, Rob Word has built a successful career as a producer, writer, programmer, packager and network executive with a flair for creative marketing. Currently, Rob is Senior Vice President of Creative Affairs for Insight Film Studios - the most prolific production company in Canada. Working in Los Angeles for the Vancouver-based production entity, Rob manages the solicitation and development of original programming...
- Sheree
I've been recruiting for the last 18 years of my professional career, enjoy my work AND my friends - so why not combine the things I like doing most? I typically work on business and professional forums, but have friends and family who love Myspace, so my arm was easily twisted. I have a very dry sense of humor and most people miss my little off the wall comments.
- David Word
David Word , a partner in San Francisco-based Word Meany Ventures LLC, sees experiential retail as the direction developers need to go to answer the coming challenge from the Internet. "I believe the Internet is a big deal. I don't believe it's going to transform shopping overnight, but it will happen. The Internet will become the way we buy standard merchandise.
- James Garfield
James Abram Garfield was a major general in the United States Army, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and the twentieth President of the United States. He was the second U.S. President to be assassinated - Abraham Lincoln was the first. Garfield had the second shortest presidency in U.S. history, after William Henry Harrison's. Holding office from March 5 to September 19, 1881, President Garfield served for a total of six months and fifteen days.
- Jen Word
- Danny Heep
Daniel William Heep (Born July 3, 1957 in San Antonio, Texas), is a retired Major League Baseball outfielder. Heep played for five different ballclubs during his 13 year career: the Houston Astros (1979-1982), New York Mets (1983-1986), Los Angeles Dodgers (1987-1988), Boston Red Sox (1989-1990), and Atlanta Braves (1991). He made his Major League Baseball debut on August 31, 1979, and played his final game on June 8, 1991.
- Jello Biafra
Eric Reed Boucher (born June 17, 1958) is more widely known by the stage name Jello Biafra. He first gained attention as the lead singer and songwriter for San Francisco punk rock band the Dead Kennedys. After his time with the band concluded, he became more directly involved with political activism and took over the influential independent record label Alternative Tentacles, founded in 1979 by him and East Bay Ray.
- Rachel Shelley
Rachel Shelley (born on 25 August 1969) is a Swindon-born English actress. She graduated from Sheffield University with a B.A. Hons in English and Drama. She played the character Elizabeth Russell in the film "Lagaan" and, since 2005, plays Helena Peabody on the television show "The L Word". Trivia *Lives in Notting Hill, grew up in London and moved from Swindon at age 1.
- Amanda Deibert
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- Eric Lively
Eric Lawrence Lively (born July 31 1981 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American actor.
- Glen Word
Party'er.
- Elton John
Sir Elton Hercules John CBE (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight on 25 March, 1947) is a five-time Grammy and one-time Academy Award-winning English pop/rock singer, composer and pianist. In his four-decade career, John has been one of the dominant forces in rock and popular music, especially in the 1970s. John has sold more than 250 million albums plus hundreds of millions of singles, making him one of the most successful artists of all time.
- Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins (born February 13, 1961 as Henry Lawrence Garfield) is a singer and songwriter, spoken word artist, book author (prose and poetry), radio and TV personality, occasional movie actor, comedian, and voice-over artist. He is perhaps best known for his work with the hardcore punk band Black Flag from 1981 to 1986, and for leading the Rollins Band since 1987.
- Tammy Lynn Michaels
Tammy Lynn Michaels (born Tamara Doring November 26, 1974, in Lafayette, Indiana), also known by the surname Etheridge after partner Melissa Etheridge, is an American actress. Michaels was a regular cast member on the Warner Brothers Network television show "Popular" and guest-starred on the Showtime drama "The L Word".
- A. M. Homes
Amy M. Homes (born 1961) is an American fiction writer known for her controversial and unusual stories, most notably "The End of Alice" (1996), a novel about a convicted child molester and murderer. She is also the author of the novels "This Book Will Save Your Life" (2006), "Music for Torching" (1999), "In a Country of Mothers" (1993), and "Jack" (1989), …
- Kinnie Starr
Kinnie Starr is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Calgary, Alberta. Her music has been described as "hip hop aggro groove". Her songs have been included on the soundtracks for the TV series "The L Word" and the movie "Thirteen". She was nominated for the Juno Award for New Artist of the Year in 2004.
- Helen Shaver
Helen Shaver (born February 24 1951 or 1952) is a Canadian actress and film and television director.
- Guinevere Turner
Guinevere Turner (May 23, 1968) is an American actress, writer and director. She was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Amongst other recent films, she starred in the 1997 British BDSM/fetish comedy film "Preaching to the Perverted" as the New York dominatrix "Tanya Cheex". Guinevere Turner and "I Shot Andy Warhol" director Mary Harron wrote the screenplay which ended up being selected for the film version of Bret Easton Ellis' "American Psycho".
- Melissa Rivers
Melissa Rivers (born on January 20, 1968) is an American actress and television co-host for fashion/red carpet interviews on cable and satellite television, previously for the E! cable network and currently for the TV Guide channel with her mother, comedian Joan Rivers. In April 2007, the TV Guide Channel annouced that the Rivers' were being replaced on the red carpet by actress Lisa Rinna.
- Samantha Ferris
Samantha Ferris (born in Vancouver, Canada) is a Canadian actress and in the mid-1990's was a television reporter for the Bellingham, Washington station KVOS TV-12, where she went by the name Janie Ferris. She is currently cast as NTAC director Nina Jarvis in the USA Network series "The 4400" and has a recurring role in the second season of "Supernatural" as Ellen Harvelle, mother of Jo Harvelle.
- An Wang
Dr. An Wang (February 7, 1920 - March 24, 1990) was a Chinese American computer engineer and inventor, and co-founder of computer company Wang Laboratories.
- Zak Santiago
Zak Santiago is a Canadian actor who has appeared in many television shows, including Young Blades, Smallville, Robson Arms, and The L Word. He is also a DJ. He is sometimes credited as Zak Santiago Alam or Zak Alam.
- Lauren Lee Smith
Lauren Lee Smith (born June 19, 1980 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) is an actress now living in the United States. Being the stepdaughter of a documentary filmmaker, Lauren traveled around the world with her family. When she was 14, her family moved to Los Angeles, California. There, she began a modeling career. At the age of 19, she was cast in a featured role in the remake of "Get Carter".
- Cory Lee
Cory Lee (born in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian pop singer/songwriter. Cory is of Chinese and German descent. Her debut album was released in Canada on July 26, 2005 by Sextant Records.
- Rose Troche
Rose Troche (born in 1964 in the midwestern United States into a Puerto Rican family) is a film and television director, producer, and screenwriter. She grew up in Chicago and attended film school for a short time. She began her career by making short films and videos. Her partner is writer/director Cherien Dabis, who joined the writing staff of "The L Word" for season 3.
- Erin Daniels
Erin Daniels (born Erin Cohen on 9 October 1973) is an American actress. Daniels was born in and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. Her father was an architect and her mother was a clinical social worker. She grew up in a Jewish family (her mother co-founded the Central Reform Congregation in St. Louis and her grandmother received an award from the National Conference of Christians and Jews) and attended Clayton High School.
- Ilene Chaiken
Ilene Chaiken is the creator, writer and executive producer of the television series "The L Word". Chaiken had previously written the screenplay "Barb Wire" (1996), and the television movies "Dirty Pictures" (2000), and "Damaged Care" (2002) before the success of "The L Word" raised her profile. She was also the coordinating producer for the "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" (1990) and the associate producer for "Satisfaction" (1988).
- Exene Cervenka
Exene Cervenka (born Christine Cervenka February 1, 1956) is an American musician and actress. Raised in Illinois and Florida, Cervenka moved to Los Angeles in 1976. In 1977 she met musician John Doe at a poetry workshop at Beyond Baroque in Venice, CA, and founded the punk band X; they released their debut album, "Los Angeles", in 1980, and, over the next six years, five more critically acclaimed albums.