Erika Christensen

Erika Christensen played Michael Douglas's drug-addled daughter in the 2000 film Traffic (directed by Stephen Soderberg). ... more

Fred Durst

Fred Durst is the front man for Limp Bizkit, the popular metal-hip hop hybrid band. As the group's vocalist and acknowledged leader, Durst first ... more

Shigeru Miyamoto

Shigeru Miyamoto is the electronic artist who designed Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros., and other smash Nintendo video games of the 1980s and 1990s. As such he is regarded as one of the video game ... more

F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of the best known American authors of the 1920s and '30s and is closely associated with the optimism and excesses of ... more

Sigourney Weaver

Actor Sigourney Weaver is best known for her recurring role as Ellen Ripley, the scrambling, feisty, critter-battling astronaut of the Alien sci-fi movie ... more

The Naked Brothers Band

The Naked Brothers Band is a fictional pre-teen band created for the movie of the same name (released in 2005) and a Nickelodeon TV series that followed the movie in 2007. The stars of the fictional ... more

Lara Logan

Lara Logan's reports from Afghanistan, Iraq and other global hot spots earned her a job reporting for CBS News in 2002. Only 31 at the time, Logan had already spent more than a dozen years in the ... more

Leroy "Satchel" Paige

Baseball's Methuselah, LeRoy "Satchel" Paige was a charismatic pitching star of the Negro Leagues who became a major league rookie in his forties. Paige began playing ... more

Christa Miller

Christa Miller plays Jordan Sullivan, a supporting character on Scrubs, the television sitcom created by her husband, Bill Lawrence. A child model from New York, she began getting TV roles in ... more

Pamela Bach

Actress Pamela Bach is known for playing blonde beach babes and for being the ex-wife of TV star David Hasselhoff. She began working as a model and ... more

Jacob

Jacob enters the Old Testament in the twenty-fifth chapter of Genesis. He is the brother of Esau, the younger son of Rebecca and Isaac and the grandson of ... more

Sarah

Sarah and her husband Abraham were the progenitors of the Hebrew people, according to the biblical book Genesis. Various strains of ... more

Isaac

Reliable but not brilliant, Isaac plays an important torch-passing role between his father, Abraham, and son, Jacob, in the biblical book ... more

Sarah Chalke

Canadian-American actress Sarah Chalke plays Dr. Eliot Reid, the loony, toothsome blonde from TV's Scrubs (with Zach Braff). On stage or in front of the camera ... more

The Fox Sisters

The Fox Sisters are considered to be the founders of the Modern Spiritualist movement. Leah, Margaretta and Kate Fox were three sisters from 19th-century New York who claimed to communicate with the ... more

Edmond Charles Genét

Edmond Charles Genét was a French diplomat whose actions in 1793 conflicted with George Washington's foreign policy and created friction between political ... more

Ed McMahon

For nearly 30 years McMahon played sidekick to Johnny Carson on the late-night hit The Tonight Show. Their edition of the show ran from 1962 to 1992, making ... more

Jon Favreau

Jon Favreau's career as an actor and movie maker took off after his indie comedy Swingers (1996) became a hit in art houses and on the video circuit. The semi-autobiographical tale of two ... more

Larry Hoover

Larry Hoover is the founder and longtime leader of the Gangster Disciples, a street gang out of northern Illinois and Indiana. Hoover was born in Mississippi but grew up in Chicago, where he became ... more

Tim Russert

Tim Russert was an American television journalist known best for hosting the political affairs talk show, Meet the Press. A 1972 graduate of John Carroll University in Cleveland, Russert also ... more