- Alvin Soon
- Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie (born June 4, 1975) is an American film actress, a former fashion model, and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She is often cited by popular media as the world's sexiest person and her off-screen life is widely reported. She has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award. After appearing as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film "Lookin' to Get Out", …
- 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, …
- Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is the American multiple-Emmy Award winning host of "The Oprah Winfrey Show", the highest rated talk show in television history. She is also an influential book critic, an Academy Award-nominated actress, and a magazine publisher. She has been ranked the richest African American of the 20th century, the most philanthropic African American of all time, and the world's only black billionaire for three straight years.
- Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki , who was Apple's software evangelist, is passionate about the idea that products and services reach critical mass 'because mere mortals spread the word for you.' He also has noted that the people who developed the original Macintosh didn't really have any idea of what people would do with the machine-and thus how its users would influence its development. We're wired to create patterns, but that doesn't mean the first patterns are necessarily useful.
- L. Ron Hubbard
L. Ron Hubbard Scientology's esteemed founder. Slate Magazine/July 15, 2005
- Lawrence Lessig
Lawrence Lessig (born June 3, 1961) is an American academic. He is currently professor of law at Stanford Law School and founder of its Center for Internet and Society. He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trade ...
- Martin Luther
Martin Luther was a German monk, theologian, and church reformer. Luther's theology challenged the authority of the papacy by emphasizing the Bible as the sole source of religious authority and the church as a priesthood of all believers. According to Luther, salvation was attainable only by faith in Jesus as the messiah, a faith unmediated by the church. These ideas helped to inspire the Protestant Reformation and changed the course of Western civilization.
- Michael Arrington
I am the editor of TechCrunch and owner of the TechCrunch Network of blog and podcasting sites.
- 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 .
- David Horowitz
The David Horowitz Freedom Center was founded in the 1988 by political activist David Horowitz and his long-time collaborato... ... The David Horowitz Freedom Center was founded in the 1988 by political activist David Horowitz and his long-time collaborato...
- Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS, (18 May 1872 - 2 February 1970), was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, advocate for social reform, and pacifist. A prolific writer, he was also a populariser of philosophy and a commentator on a large variety of topics, ranging from very serious issues to those much less so. Continuing a family tradition in political affairs, he was a prominent anti-war activist, …
- Gloria Steinem
Steinem's lifelong career as a writer and journalist began after college. A co-founder of New York magazine in 1968, Steinem was always active in a wide array of political and social causes. She became a major feminist leader in the late 1960s and in 1971 co-founded MS Magazine, where she serves as contributing editor today.
- Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho (born August 24, 1947) is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist.
- Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher.
- Bruce Schneier
Bruce Schneier is president of Counterpane Systems, the author of Applied Cryptography, and the inventor the Blowfish algorithm. He serves on the board of the International Association for Cryptologic Research and the Electronic Privacy Information Center. He is a contributing editor to Dr. Dobb's Journal, and a frequent writer and lecturer on cryptography.
- George Fox
George Fox was an English Dissenter and a major early figure — usually considered the founder — of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers. Living in a time of great social upheaval, he rebelled against the religious and political consensus by proposing an unusual and uncompromising approach to the Christian faith. His journal is a text known even among non-Quakers for its vivid account of his personal journey.
- Eve Ensler
Eve Ensler (born 25 May 1953 in Scarsdale, New York) is a Jewish American playwright and feminist activist best known for the play The Vagina Monologues.
- Max Lucado
Max Lucado is a best-selling Christian author and well-known minister. Lucado has written more than 50 books with 28 million copies in print, and currently serves as senior minister at Oak Hills Church (formerly Oak Hills Church of Christ) in San Antonio, Texas. After serving in this capacity for 20 years, Lucado announced in early 2007 that he is stepping down due to health concerns related to atrial fibrillation. Lucado was born in 1955 in San Angelo, Texas, …
- Anton Lavey
Anton Szandor LaVey, born Howard Stanton Levey (11 April, 1930 - 29 October, 1997) was the founder and High Priest of the Church of Satan as well as a writer, occultist, musician, and actor. He is the author of "The Satanic Bible" and the founder of LaVeyan Satanism, a synthesized system of his understanding of human nature and the insights of philosophers who advocated materialism and individualism, …
- Marilyn Manson
Brian Hugh Warner (born January 5, 1969), better known by his stage name Marilyn Manson, is an American musician and artist known for his outrageous stage persona and image as the lead singer of the eponymous band. His stage name was formed from the names "Marilyn" Monroe and Charles "Manson", showing what he considered the ultimate and most disturbing dualism of American culture.
- Sylvester Stallone
SO IT'S LIKE THIS...
- Frederick Douglass IV
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in 1817 on a tobacco plantation in eastern Maryland. His mother was hired out when he was still an infant. He later recalled that he did not see his mother "more than four or five times in my life." When Douglass was about six years old, he was sent to a nearby plantation where he ran errands and performed simple chores. Douglass learned in 1825 that he was to be sent away from the plantation to Baltimore.
- Carl Jung
Carl Gustav Jung (July 26, 1875, Kesswil – June 6, 1961, Küsnacht) was a Swiss psychiatrist, influential thinker, and founder of analytical psychology. Jung's unique and broadly influential approach to psychology has emphasized understanding the psyche through exploring the worlds of dreams, art, mythology, world religion and philosophy. Although he was a theoretical psychologist and practicing clinician for most of his life, …
- H. L. Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956), better known as H. L. Mencken, was a twentieth-century journalist, satirist, social critic, cynic, and freethinker, known as the "Sage of Baltimore." He is often regarded as one of the most influential American writers of the early 20th century.
- Paul Collins
Paul Collins (born 1969, Pennsylvania) is an American writer best known for his work with McSweeney's and "The Believer", as editor of the Collins Library imprint for McSweeney's Books, and for his appearances on National Public Radio's "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon. His own books deal primarily with quirky forgotten figures from history, sometimes interwoven with memoir.
- Leo Tolstoy
Leo Tolstoy dedicated websites *Leo Tolstoy museum in Yasnaya Polyana *State Leo Tolstoy Museum in Moscow Biographies and critiques *Illustrated Biography online at University of Virginia *Tolstoy and Popular Literature - Several scientific papers from the University of Minnesota *Brief bio *Leo Tolstoy's Life - Tolstoy's personal, professional and world event timeline, and synopsis of his life from Masterpiece Theatre.
- Bill Hybels
Bill Hybels Senior Pastor Willow Creek Community Church Chairman of the Board Willow Creek Association
- Merlin Mann
Merlin Dean Mann III (born November 26, 1966 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a writer, and the editor and primary contributor for the website 43 Folders . He currently resides in San Francisco, California with his wife Madeline. ... Merlin Mann gets my vote simply for introducing me to the term "Carter Scratch". You would not believe how many times I have used Carter scratch in conversations. I like how Merlin seems to be having fun most of the time.
- Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill (October 26 1883-November 8 1970) was an American author who was one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature. His most famous work, "Think and Grow Rich", is one of the best-selling books of all time. In America, Hill stated in his writings, people are free to believe what they want to believe, and this is what sets the United States apart from all other countries in the world.
- Joseph Farah
Joseph Farah is the founder, editor and chief executive officer of WorldNetDaily.com, the world's leading independent Internet news source. In addition, Farah writes a daily column for WND and a weekly newspaper column for Creators Syndicate. He is also the founder and co-publisher of WND Books, a publishing venture that has produced several New York Times best sellers in the last five years.
- Peter Cook
Peter Edward Cook (17 November 1937 - 9 January 1995) was an English satirist, writer and comedian. Cook is widely regarded as the leading figure in the British satire boom of the 1960s. He has been described by Stephen Fry as 'the funniest man who ever drew breath'. He is closely associated with an anti-establishment style of comedy that first emerged in the late 1950s.
- Greg Laurie
Greg Laurie was born in 10 December 1952. He serves as the chief pastor of the Harvest Christian Fellowship a Calvary Chapel in Riverside in California. He became a Christian beneath the admiral of Pentecostal advocate Lonnie Frisbee at Newport Harbor Aerial School. Then, at the age of 19, he had the befalling to advance [... ] read more>>
- Jim Cramer
James J. "Jim" Cramer (b., Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania) is an American television personality, former hedge fund manager, and best-selling author. Cramer is host of CNBC's "Mad Money" and co-founder of TheStreet.com. According to the January 27, 2006 episode of "High Net Worth" on CNBC, Cramer has accumulated a net worth of over $100 million. He currently resides in Summit, New Jersey.
- 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.
- Randy Alcorn
Randy Alcorn is the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries, a nonprofit ministry devoted to promoting an eternal viewpoint and drawing attention to people in special need of advocacy and help. Christianbook.com recently spoke with Randy about heaven and about his writing.
- Jane Hamsher
Bio: Jane Hamsher is the founder of the highly-popular blog, firedoglake.com. Her work has also appeared on The Huffington Post, Alternet and The American Prospect. She's the author of the best selling book "Killer Instinct" and has produced such films as "Natural Born Killers" and "Permanent Midnight." She currently lives in Middletown, Connecticut.
- Po Bronson
Po Bronson (b. in 1964) is an American journalist and author who lives in San Francisco. Born in Seattle, Washington, as Philip Bronson, he has gone by the nickname "Po" since he was 14 months old. After attending Lakeside School in Seattle, Bronson graduated from Stanford University and briefly worked as an assistant-bond-salesman in San Francisco.
- Le Corbusier
Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, who chose to be known as Le Corbusier, was a Swiss and later French, (Swiss-born) architect and writer, who is famous for his contributions to what now is called Modern Architecture. He was a pioneer in theoretical studies of modern design and was dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents of crowded cities. His career spanned five decades, with his iconic buildings constructed throughout central Europe, …
- John Battelle
John Battelle , 42, is an entrepreneur, journalist, professor and author who has founded or co-founded scores of online, conference, magazine and other media businesses. Prior to founding Federated Media, Battelle co-founded and continues to serve as Executive Producer of the Web 2 Summit conference, as well as "band manager" with BoingBoing.net .