- Volker
Living in England. I'm an engineer, father of 3 children, intact family etc. (the normal thing I guess). I do paint, write music and lyrics and books. I'm a Dianetics-Auditor. Check out the book "Dianetics" by L. Ron Hubbard. This is the greatest adventure a person can have in live and it will change your live to the positive forever! Well this is a short version. - Chris Pollitt
About me? Hmmm. Sum myself up in this little box. Should be interesting.... I'm Chris. I'm a long lost northern person who has been fraudulently residing in the southwest for some time now. I'm 23 and totaly and utterly clueless as to what i want to do or where i want to be in 10 minutes, let alone 10 years. I am, worringly, obsessed with all things car related. It might be deemed as a sad pastime to most, but i don't care. - David
- Clare Bell
Get this Action Banner for your own web page. - Donald Gmrs. Mashburn
- Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath: scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, and writer. The illegitimate son of a notary, Messer Piero, and a peasant girl, Caterina, Leonardo had no surname in the modern sense, "da Vinci" simply meaning "of Vinci": his full birth name was "Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci", meaning "Leonardo, … - John Muir
John Muir was one of the first modern preservationists. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, and wildlife, especially in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, were read by millions and are still popular today. His direct activism helped to save the Yosemite Valley and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which he founded, is now one of the most important conservation organizations in the United States. - John Moore
John Moore is an American engineer and author of fantasy and science fiction. He lives and works in Houston, Texas. Much of Moore's early work appeared under a fuller version of his name, John F. Moore. His early stories were mostly hard-boiled science fiction. His first published story, "Sight Unseen," appeared in "Aboriginal SF" in 1986. His work has also seen print in "New Destinies", … - Seth Godin
Godin graduated from Tufts University in 1982 with a degree in computer science and philosophy, and he earned his MBA in marketing from Stanford Business School. From 1983 to 1986, he worked as a brand manager at Spinnaker Software, where he led the team that developed the first generation of multimedia products, working with such forward-thinking authors as Arthur C. Clarke and Michael Crichton . - Steve Albini
Steve Albini (born July 22, 1962, Pasadena, California) is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, audio engineer and music journalist. He was a member of Big Black and Rapeman and is still a member of Shellac. He is founder, owner, and engineer of Electrical Audio, a recording studio complex located in Chicago. - Seth MacFarlane
Seth Woodbury MacFarlane (born October 26, 1973) is a two-time Emmy-winning American animator, screenwriter, producer, director, and voice actor. He is best known as the creator of the animated series "Family Guy" and "American Dad!". He was also the executive producer of the short-lived series, "The Winner". - Vitruvius
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (born ca. 80/70 BC?; died ca. 25 BC) was a Roman writer, architect and engineer, active in the 1st century BC. - Dolph Lundgren
Dolph Lundgren (born Hans Lundgren, November 3, 1959) is a Swedish actor, director and karateka. His breakthrough came when he starred in "Rocky IV" in 1985. Since then, he starred in more than 30 pictures, mostly action movies. Dolph belongs to a generation of film actors who epitomise the muscular movie action hero including Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steven Seagal, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Chuck Norris, … - Nevil Shute
Nevil Shute Norway (January 17, 1899 in London - January 12, 1960 in Melbourne) was, as Nevil Shute, one of the most popular novelists of the mid-20th century, as well as a successful aeronautical engineer. His stories and characters are humane but avoid emotional extremes (occasionally to a surprising extent, given the circumstances they describe), which helps explain why a half-century after his death, virtually all his books remain in print. - Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a major Russian novelist and playwright. His novel "Fathers and Sons" is regarded as a major work of 19th-century fiction. - Michael Hammer
Michael Martin Hammer is one of the founders of the management theory of Business process reengineering (BPR). - Paul Haughey
Paul C. Haughey (born January 16, 1954 in Toledo, Ohio, United States) is a novelist, patent attorney and partner with the law firm Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP. He was an electrical engineer with Hughes Aircraft before becoming a patent attorney. His first novel, "Undue Diligence", was published in 2006 and reportedly took 20 years to complete. - Abraham Maslow
Abraham (Harold) Maslow was an American psychologist. He is mostly noted today for his proposal of a hierarchy of human needs, considered the father of Humanism in psychology. - Andrew Grove
Dr. Andrew Stephen Grove (born 1936-09-02) is a Hungarian-American businessman. He participated in the founding of Intel and was key to the company's success. - William Murdoch
William Murdoch (sometimes spelled Murdock) (August 21, 1754 - November 15, 1839) was a Scottish engineer and inventor. It is believed that his name was Anglicised to Murdock when he moved to England. He was employed by the firm of Boulton and Watt and worked for them in Cornwall as a steam engine erector for ten years, spending most of the rest of his life in Birmingham. He was the inventor of gas lighting in the early 1790s and coined the term gasometer. - Clive Cussler
Clive Eric Cussler (born July 15, 1931 in Aurora, Illinois) is an American adventure novelist and successful amateur marine archaeologist. - Keith Henson
Keith Henson On July 19, 2000, Keith Henson was arrested by the Riverside County, California, Sheriff’s Office for making terrorist threats on the Internet against the Church of Scientology. On April 26, 2001, a jury found Henson guilty of having committed a hate crime under section 422.6 of the California Penal Code . Henson was scheduled to appear for sentencing on May 16, 2001, but failed to appear and the Judge was forced to issue a warrant for his arrest. - Daniel H. Wilson
Daniel H. Wilson (b. 1978) is an American writer and robotics engineer. Born March 6 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he earned his B.S. in computer science at the University of Tulsa. He completed an M.S. in robotics, another M.S. in Machine Learning, and his Ph.D. in robotics in 2005 at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has worked as a research intern at Microsoft Research, the Xerox PARC, Northrop Grumman, and Intel Research Seattle. - Takeshi Kitano
Takeshi Kitano originally studied to become an engineer, but was thrown out of school for rebellious behavior. He learned comedy, singing and dancing from famed comedian Senzaburo Fukami. Working as a lift boy on a nightclub with such features as comic sketches and striptease dancing, Kitano saw his chance when a comedian suddenly fell ill, and he went on stage in the man's place. - Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a revolutionary Soviet film director and film theorist noted in particular for his silent films "Strike", "Battleship Potemkin" and "Oktober". His work vastly influenced early film makers owing to his innovative use of and writings about montage. - Michael Perry
Michael D. Perry, is a United States software engineer. He is the founder of InterCommerce Corporation. Originally a programmer and software designer, he founded Progressive Computer Services, Inc., which published utility software for the IBM PC market. The company was best-known for EZ-Menu, a utility that was declared "PC Magazine" "Editor's Choice", "PC Home Journal" "Best Product", and "Personal Computing Magazine" H "Publisher's Pick". - Walter M. Miller Jr.
Walter Michael Miller, Jr. was an American science fiction author primarily known for a single novel, "A Canticle for Leibowitz", the only novel he published in his lifetime. - Joel Spolsky
Joel Spolsky started his web log, www.joelonsoftware.com, in March 2000 in order to offer his insights, based on years of experience, on how to improve the world of programming. His extraordinary writing skills, technical knowledge, and caustic wit have made him a programming guru. This log, now legend in the programming world, is linked to more than 600 other websites and translated into more than 30 languages! - Shane Carruth
Shane Carruth (born 1972 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina) is an American film writer, director, producer and actor. Carruth performed all those roles in his independent film "Primer", which was honored at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival with the Grand Jury Prize. Carruth, a former engineer with a degree in mathematics, utilized his technical knowledge on the project. - Henry M. Morris
Henry Madison Morris, Ph.D. (October 6 1918 – February 25 2006) was an American young earth creationist, Christian apologist and hydraulic engineer. As founder of the Creation Research Society and the Institute of Creation Research, he is considered by many to be "the father of modern creation science." - Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich was born in St. Petersburg, Russia on September 25, 1906. Years after his death, he remains one of the most important figures in 20th-century classical music and one of the most controversial. Under pressure from Soviet authorities, he compromised his art. At least that was how it seemed. (09/25/2006) - Bob Shaw
Bob Shaw (December 31, 1931 - February 12, 1996) was an Irish science fiction author and fan. His works include "Light of Other Days" (incorporated into "Other Days, Other Eyes") and "Orbitsville". He was two-time recipient (in 1979 and 1980) of the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer. His short story "Light of Other Days" was a Hugo Award nominee in 1967, as was his novel "The Ragged Astronauts" in 1987. He was born and raised in Belfast. - Jim Hoffman
Jim Hoffman is a software engineer based in Alameda, California, who has worked in scientific visualization and produced the first visualization of Costa's minimal surface. Hoffman has published several websites presenting 9/11 conspiracy theories and material about the September 11, 2001 attacks. - Steve Ciarcia
Steve Ciarcia is an embedded control systems engineer. He became popular through his "Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar" column in BYTE magazine, and later through the "Circuit Cellar" magazine that he published. - Jonathan Williams
Jonathan Williams (May 20, 1751 - May 16, 1815), American businessman, military figure, politician and writer, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, a grandnephew of Benjamin Franklin. He became Chief of Engineers of the Army Corps of Engineers, was the first superintendent of West Point, and was elected to the Fourteenth United States Congress. Williams spent most of the period from 1770 to 1785 in England and France, … - Gene Pitney
Gene Francis Alan Pitney (February 17 1940 - April 5 2006) was an American singer and songwriter. Through the mid-1960s, he enjoyed considerable success on both sides of the Atlantic, and charted more than 20 Top 40 hit singles. He was also an accomplished guitarist, pianist, drummer, and skilled sound engineer. In 2002, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. - Gentry Lee
Gentry Lee is the chief engineer for the Planetary Flight Systems Directorate at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a science fiction writer. As an author he is best known for co-writing, with Arthur C. Clarke, the books "Cradle" in 1989, "Rama II" in 1989, "The Garden of Rama" in 1991 and "Rama Revealed" in 1993. He helped Carl Sagan in the 1980 series "Cosmos". - Jackie Martling
Jackie Martling (born John Coger Martling, Jr. on February 14, 1948) is an American comedian, comedy writer, musician, composer and actor. He is best known as "Jackie The Joke Man," a cast member and later head writer for the "The Howard Stern Show", a syndicated morning radio show which has now moved from terrestrial radio to Sirius satellite radio. - Chuck Austen
Chuck Austen (born Chuck Beckum) is an American writer and artist of comic books, most famous for his controversial work on the popular X-Men franchise, as well as on other Marvel and DC titles. - Euclides da Cunha
Euclides (archaic spelling "Euclydes") da Cunha, was a Brazilian writer, sociologist and engineer. His most important work is "Os Sertões" ("Rebellion in the backlands"), a non-fictional account of the military expeditions promoted by the Brazilian government against the rebellious village of Canudos, known as the War of Canudos. This book was a favorite of Robert Lowell, who put it above Tolstoy, …
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